About Joel

Joel is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the state of Massachusetts and a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC). Joel has been in the field of mental health and sport psychology for just over 5 years. It is important to know about your therapist - some background about Joel is below. 

Joel has supported and supports people ranging from adolescents to folx from the LGBTQIA+ community, the general population, and people with justice involvement. Joel has also supported folks who experience relational struggles, substance misuse, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, depression (self harm/suicidality), trauma, and more. (Joel's therapeutic approaches are below, if interested!)

Joel is currently a group therapist at Guidelight Health, IOP/PHP level of care. Joel currently leads group and individual sessions and is supported by his strong team to best help folks get back on their feet. 

Throughout Joel’s counseling work, Joel has also worked with student athletes through Unlimited Resilience - a sport psychology practice, for athletes, by athletes. Additionally, Joel has coached youth rock climbing, is a certified personal trainer, an avid rock climber, mountain biker, skier, crossfitter, an Olympic style weight lifter, and an overall outdoor enthusiast. With Joel’s interests, he believes our relationship to our bodies and the environment plays a key role to growth and development. What we put into our body, how we treat our body, and our community are essential to our growth. 

Hopefully Joel can be one of those supports as you navigate your own waters and where you want to be.

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Services Provided

Counseling: Individual, Group Therapy, and Couples Therapy

No one is crazy, insane, dumb, stupid, or an idiot (or other synonyms similar to these adjectives). There are times we might feel these ways^^ but that is not our true selves. There are other times we feel out of control or feel like we are "too much". Times when our mind is moving so fast, we are on edge, or we are hooked/stuck by our thoughts. Times as if there are rubber bands pulling us back, a heavy jacket is weighing us down or we feel like we are just drifting along and not in our body. There are also times when we are doing well, feeling stable, motivated, purposeful, and we still feel things are not fully "clicking" and we can continue to evolve and learn more about ourselves. These are all feelings Joel can support with and help to gain insight and live by your values, follow your wise mind, and be self-led. 

Joel has learned and been trained in many different types of therapy. Currently, Joel has found Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), with the lenses of queer and critical race theory, to be the most helpful for clients to be their own leaders in the complex society we live in. Joel holds the space with playfulness, patience, persistence, perspective, and presence, knowing that safety is created, not innate. Joel’s aim is to build a safe and collaborative relationship that can ebb and flow through serious moments to moments of light heartedness and joy.

Joel offers groups session for folks who are seeking additional mental health treatment from their 1on1 outpatient and or they are stepping down from IOP or PHP level of care. These groups are continuous and plan to be process and task oriented to continue to build and maintain your skill use/development as you step down from having 9+ hours of support per week. Joel understands this is a stepping stone to eventually only needing 1hr/week of 1on1 therapy, but sometimes we need the extra support to get there. The aim of this group is to 1. Continue to build and reinforce skills. 2. Find support and connection in your mental health journey as you continue to build your social supports outside of mental health treatment 3. Learn to be your own leader


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Mental Performance/Sport Psych Skills

Joel offers mental performance coaching with a couple things in mind. 1. Athletes and performers are complex and multidimensional (we are more than just what we do). 2. We must learn to be courageous. compassionate, creative, calm, clear, confident, connected, and most importantly, curious,  3. Whether it is on the field, during a presentation, in the classroom, we must be able to use skills to slow down and regulate our nervous systems to access our wise mind, self energy, and implement our values. 

Joel has learned and been trained in many different types of therapy. Currently, Joel has found Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to be the most helpful for clients and very helpful way to connect with clients to get them to be their own leaders. Joel holds the space with playfulness, patience, persistence, perspective, and presence, to create a safe space that can ebb and flow through serious moments to moments of light heartedness.

Whether it is recovering from an injury, learning how to bounce back after a mistake, collaborating with teammates or peers in the performance arena to feeling like there is SO much pressure that sport is unenjoyable, the mental side of sport can offer the tools to get you where you want to be.

Athletes and performers tend to be more skill focused. Through Joel's mental health counseling experience and experience doing workshops and individual sessions at the D1, D3, high school level, Joel has a plethora of skills to offer, implement, and collaborate with you to figure out what fits!

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Rate of Session

Note about private pay:

The goal of offering a large sliding scale is provide more access to folks, while also acknowledging the power insurance plays in our health care and how they underpay/undercut behavioral health clinicians. I am very open to a conversation about the sliding scale to hopefully find a nice middle ground for us both.

I like to frame private pay into 2 buckets.

  1. Reparations - people who do not have the means to pay the full rate, but still want meaningful outpatient treatment

  2. Redistribution - people who have the means to pay the full rate and or more

This is all about honesty. The aim is for these 2 groups to balance each other out so people who can pay the full rate support people who cannot and the cycle can continue if the person in the reparations eventually earns more, they can then increase their rate to support another person who cannot pay the full rate.

  • 1on1 therapy using a virtual platform

    50 minute sessions start at 150$/session

    Sliding scale is based on income level (this is not adjusted for dual income):

    1. Less than 50k/year: 50$/session

    2. 50k - 75k/year: 75$/session

    3. 75k - 90k: 100$/session

    4. 90k - 105k: 125$/session

    5. Above 105k/year: 150$/session

  • 1on1 consulting using a virtual platform.

    50 minute sessions start at 175$/session

    Sliding scale is based on income level (this is not adjusted for dual income):

    1. Less than 50k/year: 50$/session

    2. 50k - 75k/year: 75$/session

    3. 75k - 90k: 100$/session

    4. 90k - 105k: 125$/session

    5. Above 105k/year: 175$/session

  • Starting at 75$ per session.

    Sliding scale as low as 25$ per session.

  • Starting at 100$ per person for a 1.5 hour long session.

    Sliding scale is also available for couples.

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Resources

Book recommendations

  • You Are the One You Have Been Waiting For

  • No Bad Parts

  • The Body Keeps The Score

  • Mentality Wins

  • Think Again

  • Give and Take

  • The Mindful Athlete

  • The Rock Warriors Way

  • All About Love

  • The Will to Change

  • For the Love of Men

  • My Body is Not an Apology

  • Unbroken Brain

  • The Gifts of Imperfection

  • Dare to Lead

  • Mindfulness in Plain English**

  • The Miracle of Mindfulness

  • Scattered Minds

  • Brain Energy

LGBTQIA Resources

  • The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook

  • The Trevor Project

  • Gender Queer

  • Santa Barbara LBGTQ Resource

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Books

  • Black Skin, White Masks

  • White Fragility

  • Decolonizing Therapy

  • The New Jim Crow

  • Hood Feminism

  • So Now You Want To Talk About Race

  • The Privileged Poor

  • The Color of Law

Resources for Parents

  • Be All In

  • Mentality Wins

  • I-Minds

  • The Culture Code

Relationship resources

  • You Are the One You Have Been Waiting For

  • Come as You Are

  • Come Together

Emergency Resources

  • 988

  • MA Behavioral Helpline - 833-773-2445 (call or text)

  • Mobile Crisis (BEST)) Team 1-800-981-4357

  • Mobile Crisis Intervention (Advocates) (800) 640-5432