Thoughtful, creative counseling to nurture your natural strengths and help you discover and resolve whatever is holding you back from living a more satisfying, fulfilling life.
I am Elaine Walker, licensed mental health counselor, lic. # 3917, practicing in Massachusetts as well as through tele-therapy (online or on phone).
I worked for 25 years as director of a Fountain House model clubhouse, helping adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses and retiring from that role a few years ago.
I currently am a senior adjunct at Cambridge College, helping graduate students to develop the skills needed to become awesome therapists. In addition, I maintain a small private practice providing psychotherapy to individuals throughout the week.
I raised two wonderful daughters as a single mother, and as that role required lees and less time and attention, I discovered that creating art, reading, and gardening required more. I think that my essential purpose in life is now to create a better world, by listening carefully to one client at a time. And then contemplating what will be the best ways to aid this person to overcome obstacles and meet their goals. And then actively taking steps to make that happen.
Each client is unique and therefore each way of working with that person is also unique. The theories I draw most upon are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person Centered, Existential, Motivational Interviewing and Adlerian.
The types of issues that are brought to me are about difficulties with relationships, with mood and motivation, with fears and anxieties, with loneliness and loss, and sometimes just a pervasive dissatisfaction with life that is hard to understand or articulate.
I seek to understand and for you to understand as well, then get to work on facilitating change.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Depression, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders , Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Sexual Dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Trichotillomania, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy
MA LMHC 3917
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Prof. Elaine Walker. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Great job
Written on Jul 11, 2022 after therapy with Elaine for 1 year and 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, and intimacy-related issues
She is nothing short of a miracle worker. She maintains her personal humanity and the therapy hat while being patient, insightful and knowledgeable.
Written on Jul 05, 2022 after therapy with Elaine for 1 year and 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, and coping with life changes
She’s the best!
Written on Jun 03, 2022 after therapy with Elaine for 1 year and 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping disorders, self esteem, and coping with life changes
She listens provides insight that may not be apparent to you.
Written on Mar 28, 2022 after therapy with Elaine for 11 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, eating disorders, and self esteem
Prof. Walker is extremely easy to talk with. Such a professional but makes you feel like you are speaking with a friend that will not judge.
Written on Oct 01, 2021 after therapy with Elaine for 4 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, and family conflicts
Professor Walker is a very compassionate listener. She really tunes In to hear what your saying and what your not and she offers solid, helpful suggestions.
Written on Aug 05, 2021 after therapy with Elaine for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd