Psychotherapy Services

Life experiences can be distressing and disorientating, and may disrupt our sense of ourselves and our lives.  Other life experiences may be simultaneously joyful and quite stressful.  Psychotherapy can offer a safe, warm and nonjudgmental environment for growth and healing, fostering a greater depth of understanding and meaning, developing new perspectives and skills, solving problems, finding hope, reclaiming a sense of empowerment, embracing emotions, revealing compassion and wisdom in suffering, improving relationships, moving toward wellness and sometimes, simply just being.

Christen Scozzafave, LCSW, primarily works from a relational framework, utilizing a myriad of practices and interventions tailored to individual needs. Therapeutic modalities used include psychodynamic theories, cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment therapy tools, mindfulness practices and strengths-based approaches. 

Therapy services are offered to individual adults and couples (couples are seen only for perinatal complications).

Perinatal Services

  • Maternal perinatal mood complications (depression, anxiety, postpartum psychosis)

  • Pregnancy & infant loss

  • Perinatal medical complications (maternal & fetal)

  • Body image concerns associated with pregnancy and postpartum periods

  • Traumatic experiences during pregnancy, birth & postpartum

  • Parenting transitions

  • Pregnancy after previous loss, postpartum depression or fertility challenges

  • Challenges associated with prematurity, NICU admissions, and infant illness

  • Infertility

  • Paternal and non-birth partner mood changes and coping difficulties

  • Pregnancy termination considerations for medical reasons

Individual Services

  • Grief, bereavement and loss

  • Adjustment to illness

  • Anxiety, depression and trauma

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Life & career transitions

  • Professional development

  • Companion animal grief and bereavement

Couples Services

  • Relationship difficulties arising during the perinatal time period and transition to new parenthood

  • Challenges associated with perinatal loss, postpartum difficulties, and new parent transitions