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Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LICSW Master of Social Work, MSW Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsThis therapist is currently not accepting new clients. Find available Massachusetts therapists on Zencare.
Alison Newman is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her practice focuses on academic issues, college mental health, life transitions, personal and professional growth, and relationships. She enjoys working with college students as they navigate forming new relationships and the many challenges of being away from home for the first time. She also sees many adults through formative life transitions, including graduation, marriage, and pregnancy.
Alison provides skill-based support to help young adults manage anxiety around finding their social niche and discover an inner sense of belonging and self-worth. She has deep expertise in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based treatment approach that equips clients with the behavioral skills to cope with uncertainty, regulate mood, and engage more effectively with others in the present moment.
Alison received her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) from Princeton University and her Masters in Social Work from Boston College in Clinical Mental Health. Her extensive experience includes work at McLean Hospital as well as college counseling services at Wellesley College and Boston College. In addition to her clinical work, Alison has received training in yoga for emotional health. She utilizes a team-based approach, providing referrals for nutritional support and medication management as necessary. Alison works closely with clients to reduce stress in meaningful ways, tailoring the course of treatment to help each client find a renewed sense of peace and joy.
Personal and professional growth - Feeling stagnant or at a crossroad in your personal or professional life; finding one's direction and purpose to have more meaningful relationships and careers
Life transitions - Adjusting to college, new relationships, career transitions and direction; mid-life existential, relationship, and career challenges; losing one’s drive or burn out; learning self-care
Relationship issues - Feeling unsatisfied in your partnership; communication challenges; addressing issues of power and voice; contemplation of separation; questioning one’s place in the relationship; breakups, friendships, dating
Mood disorders - Clinical depression, persistent depression, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders that cause disturbances in the client's mood, causing mood swings, restless sleep, and/or elevated mood
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Years of Experience: 12 years
Private Practice, 2013 - Present
Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer, 2016 - Present
McLean Hospital, Therapist, 2014 - 2016
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Clinical Social Worker, 2011 - 2014
Wellesley College, Stone Center Counseling Services, Clinical Counseling Intern, 2010 - 2011
Advanced Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2017
Yoga for Emotional Health and Healing Certificate, 2017
Dialectical Behavioral Foundational Training, 2015
Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and the Body: Healing, Anxiety, Depression, and Chronic Stress, 2015
Boston University, Certificate in Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions, 2013
Boston College, MSW, 2011
Princeton University, AB, 2007
Mentalization-Based Treatment: Basic Training, Mindfulness, Neuroscience
Massachusetts: 117779
Rhode Island: ISW03137
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