Therapy

I work with queer and trans kids, teens, adults, and families with histories of trauma and harm, including sexual abuse and exploitation, looking to rebuild trust with their bodies. I work with folx navigating eating disorders, dissociation, self-injury, and the ways we survive complex trauma. I also work with neurodivergent and chronically ill folx.

My work is grounded in the belief that we are all born into the world connected to our knowing and in a relationship with our bodies, even if we can't remember it. The world ruptures the connection between ourselves and our knowing, and therapy is one of the things that can help in getting it back. Relationships are foundational in healing, and I believe that we grow in, through, and toward relationships across our lives.

I believe that there is a deep connection between individual and collective healing — that the work we do in therapy is never separate from the world outside it. When we reclaim our stories, our bodies, and our knowing, we don't just heal ourselves. We become part of a movement that is transforming the world. My work points us toward a vision of a world without violence and harm, and holds both the personal and the political at the same time.

For those of you interested in the clinical frameworks I use, here are some of the foundational ideas and approachethat inform my work:

• Liberation Health, Healing Justice, & Abolition Work

• Body Trust®

• Health At Every Size (HAES)

• Relational-Cultural Therapy

• Narrative Therapy

• Stage-Based Trauma Recovery Models

• Attachment-Based

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

• Play-Based Techniques

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Trauma-Informed Parenting Strategies, including Collaborative Problem Solving

I offer telehealth therapy to clients throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts.

In-person sessions are available in Connecticut.

All programs and Body Trust® coaching are available everywhere, regardless of location.

I believe that everyone should have access to care. I currently accept the following insurance plans:

Connecticut Medicaid

Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield · Cigna · Optum · Oxford · United Healthcare Oxford · Connecticare

Don't see your insurance listed? Reach out — we can talk through your options together.

II believe that financial barriers shouldn't stand between you and healing. I also know that money and payment are extremely complicated for survivors. I offer sliding scale and equity-based treatment to widen access to care. My full fee self-pay rate supports access for those who are unable to pay directly for services.

A full fee therapy session is $250.00. Sliding scale sessions range from $50–$250.00 based on what is sustainable for you.

Have questions about fees or payment? Reach out at christina@kaleidoscope-growth.com — we'll figure something out together.

I've been a therapist for almost 20 years. My clinical training began at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, on one of the country's first restraint- and seclusion-free inpatient psychiatric units — an early lesson in what it looks like to try to build dignity-centered care within systems that weren't designed for it.

My clinical practice has always been inseparable from my commitment to social justice, community organizing, and non-carceral approaches to care. I believe that the systems meant to support us too often cause harm — and that building something different is both possible and necessary.

That commitment has never left me.

Throughout my career I've worked across every level of care — inpatient, residential, intensive outpatient, community-based, and academic settings — with a consistent focus on integrating client and survivor voices into institutional structures. Survivor-led work and patient- and family-centered care aren't add-ons for me. They're where I started, and they're what Kaleidoscope Growth is built on.

• MSW, Boston University School of Social Work (2007)

• MA, Gender and Cultural Studies, Simmons College (2005)

• Certified Body Trust® Provider (2023)

• Connecticut Licensed Clinical Social Worker (2015)

• Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (2010)