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Hannah Wahl, CSWA

Julie Liszka
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I specialize in:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Do you identify as neurodivergent and are looking for a therapist who truly gets them and offers support without judgment?
  • Are you struggling with anxiety or panic, especially when big life changes feel overwhelming?
  • Do you feel scattered or “all over the place” and want help slowing down and feeling more grounded?

I Can Help.

  • I believe the heart of therapy is the relationship we build. I show up as a real person and we create a space where you feel seen and supported.
  • My style is warm and collaborative—we’ll explore what’s working in your life and gently challenge what’s not, always with curiosity and care.
  • Clients often tell me they feel both supported and pushed in the right ways. I don’t just listen—I help you move forward.

What can you expect?

  • You’ll feel more confident making choices that align with who you are.
  • You’ll feel more present and connected to your daily life, instead of stuck in your head.
  • You’ll notice more joy, more calm moments—even in the middle of stress.
  • You’ll build tools to handle life’s curveballs without feeling like you’re unraveling.

I help teens and adults who feel overwhelmed, scattered, or stuck start to feel more grounded and empowered. Many of my clients identify as neurodivergent or anxious and are looking for a therapist who understands their experience and offers warm, affirming support. I bring honesty, care, and a collaborative spirit to our work—creating a space where real growth can happen.

Abby Fleeter, MS

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Student Intern
Current clients can book a therapy session here
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Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you and your partner(s) feeling a sense of disconnection, including changes in intimacy or trouble navigating expectations or trust in your romantic relationship?
  • Have you experienced a reproductive health loss and are hoping for a space to process?
  • Are you feeling stuck in patterns of conflict with your romantic partner, friends, family, or other people in your life?
  • Are you a teen or a parent/guardian of a teen who is struggling with self-esteem or academic pressure?

I Can Help.

  • I bring compassion, authenticity, and a sense of humor into my work with clients. My hope is to offer an open and supportive space for you to explore your experiences, relationships, fears, and strengths. We will work together to create a collaborative therapeutic relationship where you can feel heard and be yourself.
  • I use narrative and emotionally focused therapy approaches to support individuals, couples, and families in sharing and learning from their stories. This includes exploring the emotional impact of the narratives you have about yourself and taking leaps to try out new ways of relating to yourself and others. I also work from a systemic perspective, which means that I’m interested in understanding how you are impacted by your relationships, communities, cultural contexts, and multigenerational stories.
  • I have a background in community mental health and I believe that healing happens every day in community spaces – through community-based music, art, sports, and connection. In therapy, exploring how you shape and are shaped by your community can be incredibly empowering.
  • Whether working with individuals, families, or couples/intimate partners, I believe that small changes can lead to bigger changes as we navigate the joy, loss, and hope that show up in our lives.

What can you expect?

  • A sense of hope for re-connection and intimacy in your romantic partnerships.
  • A deeper understanding of your emotional experiences and needs, and how those needs show up in different ways in your life.
  • In couples/intimate partner therapy, an opportunity to explore and practice ways of feeling more connected with each other when tackling challenges, as partners rather than as opponents.
  • Greater belief in yourself and your own capacity for growth, healing, and connection.

Willa Jutzi, LPC

Julie Liszka
Licensed Professional Counselor
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Experiencing difficulty in their relationship with food, exercise, substances, or their body?
  • Feeling anxious, stressed, or down related to life transitions, medical conditions, or self-identity?
  • Experiencing feelings of unworthiness and shame, or struggling with perfectionism, rigid standards, and people pleasing tendencies?
  • Exploring relational dynamics or past experiences related to family of origin?

I Can Help.

  • My approach is collaborative, client centered, and trauma informed. I rely on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy interventions, also incorporating other therapeutic styles into my work and tailoring my techniques based on the needs of each client.
  • My background includes working in higher levels of care for eating disorders and in integrated primary care. My practice is Health at Every Size informed.
  • I prioritize the therapeutic relationship, and strive to create a warm and non-judgemental environment for self-discovery and growth. I appreciate humor and the occasional pop culture reference, when appropriate.

What can you expect?

  • Learn and implement skills and strategies for managing self-defeating behaviors.
  • Increase self esteem while building self-compassion, mindfulness skills, and psychological flexibility.
  • Clarify values, confront avoidance, and take meaningful steps towards building a life worth living.
  • Improvement in identifying needs, assertive communication, and boundary setting within relationships.

Shannon Liebel, MA

Julie Liszka
Professional Counselor Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you struggling with anxiety or depression symptoms?
  • Have you experienced past or current trauma?
  • Are you finding it difficult to adjust to life changes or transitions?

I Can Help.

  • With 12 years of experience of teaching yoga, breath work, meditation, and mindfulness, my experience in somatic practices helps to regulate the nervous system and strengthening the mind – body connection
  • With unconditional support, I help guide clients to self empowerment and enhance their sense of self worth

What can you expect?

  • My clients express having navigated difficult life transitions and come out on the other side feeling empowered and excited for their next chapter.
  • Resolving past and current trauma has allowed clients to be more present in relationships and more authentic in how they show up in their life.
  • Clients will leave with tools and somatic practices to help regulate their nervous system and keep symptoms of anxiety and depression at bay.

Jimmy Boyda, MA

Julie Liszka
Professional Counselor Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
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Heal, grow, and create the life that aligns with your values.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Experiencing conflict or stress in relationships?
  • Ready to heal from past trauma?
  • Exploring questions about gender or sexuality?
  • Looking for greater meaning and direction in life?

I Can Help.

With a background in family therapy and education, I support children, teens, adults, and couples navigating family conflict, mood disorders, relationships, trauma, and gender/sexuality concerns. I provide compassionate, evidence-based guidance, helping you understand yourself, recognize your strengths, and build a life aligned with your values.

What can you expect?

  • Greater confidence, self-awareness, and self-acceptance
  • Practical tools for healthy relationships and conflict resolution

  • Increased resilience to handle life’s challenges and stressors

Let’s work together to create the life you want.

August Smith, MS

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here

Does this sound familiar?

  • Struggling with your or a loved one’s gender identity, sexuality, or level of self-acceptance?
  • Experiencing difficulty in discussing, exploring, or engaging with intimacy, pleasure, or sex tied to shame, trauma, or relational distress?
  • Grappling with current, past, or generational trauma, seeking a safe space to process and utilize coping tools to expand your emotional capacity?

I Can Help.

  • I utilize integrative trauma-informed Narrative Therapy, DBT, and Polyvagal Theory to guide clients through understanding their internal beliefs shaped by early life experiences and how those foundations impact tolerance, behavior, and relational dynamics in adulthood.
  • I believe therapy can assist clients in unlocking their internal resources needed to promote individual and systemic growth, leading to meaningful change.
  • I implore a liberatory approach by analyzing the client’s context within the systems theory framework and the effects of interpersonal interactions on the client.

What can you expect?

  • I work on an individual and relational level to build clients’ innate resources, fortify distress tolerance, promote understanding of behavioral functionality, and fine-tune awareness of interacting communicative patterns.
  • My notable clinical interests include sex therapy, trauma processing, and identity exploration involving gender & sexuality, collectively framed by liberatory practices and systemic thinking.
  • As a queer and transgender therapist, I have experienced facets of systemic oppression and witnessed its impact on other marginalized communities, driving my own goal to expand the accessibility of mental health services and aim to provide a safe and inclusive therapeutic environment to support client’s mental health regardless of cultural or personal identities.

Libby Quinn, CSWA

Julie Liszka
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you anticipating or experiencing a major transition and feeling overwhelmed by change?
  • Are you wanting to explore your fears, desires and anxieties or make better sense of their origins?
  • Do you find yourself navigating questions about identity and wanting to build a stronger sense of self?

I Can Help.

  • My approach focuses on understanding the deeper stories that shape our lives, helping clients to reframe their narratives and empower their personal growth.
  • My experience in social work, public policy and disability justice lead me to encourage clients to consider the larger systems at play, and reclaim agency in a sometimes imperfect, unpredictable world. 

  • Using a strengths-based approach, I work with you to identify, build and reinforce the unique strengths and resources which support your pursuit of self-determination.

What can you expect?

  • You will be able to utilize your strengths and access your personal sources of power more readily, leaving you feeling grounded and autonomous.
  • Our work will be collaborative – together, we will explore identities, challenges and aspirations which are important to you, ultimately building resilience and autonomy.

  • You will be met with respect, patience and curiosity but also be encouraged to explore and expand your comfort zone, as it relates to self-advocacy and self-determination. 


As a graduate of Smith College School of Social Work (Northampton, MA), I was trained in a range of modalities, with an emphasis on psychodynamic approaches. I strongly believe in the power – and fun! – of stories, and utilize narrative therapy principles to explore the impact of the stories we tell ourselves, as well as the larger narratives told about the identities we might hold. Having lived with a chronic illness since birth, my own disability experience has shaped how I invite clients to consider the role of social norms and expectations in the development of positive self-esteem. My practice borrows from relational therapy, in which I encourage clients to reflect on the impact of past or current relationships, including the working relationship which we shape together. 

As a client of mine you can be assured of one thing: I am interested in you and how you have lived your life up to the moment you walk into my room. Together we will focus on your strengths, and how you have coped up until now. We will explore your fear and vulnerability, always with an eye on your resiliency and your ability to cope.

Ashley Tecson, CSWA

Julie Liszka
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here

Does this sound familiar?

  • Feeling hopeless, alone, too much or not enough?
  • Overwhelmed with changes happening in your life and the world around you?
  • Are past trauma and hardship affecting your ability to navigate relationships and functioning day to day?

I Can Help.

  • I have a relational perspective and approach every client as a person first rather than a diagnosis, connecting to my clients with humor, empathy, and authenticity
  • I believe there is no “one size fits all” and I pull from several modalities and resources to find what works best for you based on your unique wants, needs, and beliefs
  • I have both professional and personal experience helping others with depression, anxiety, suicidality, trauma, and the challenges of navigating the world as part of the BIPOC and LGBTQ2IA+ communities.

What can you expect?

  • A safe space to reflect, ask questions, and be seen and heard exactly as you are, free of any judgment
  • Improved capacity to cope with and reframe adversity, change, difficult feelings, and detrimental patterns
  • A more empowered sense of self with increased insight into your thoughts, feelings, experiences, and how to move forward in a way that best serves you

Brendan Moore, CSWA

Julie Liszka
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you or your teen navigating questions around identity (such as gender, culture, race, disability)?

  • Are you struggling with repetitive relationship or career conflicts that don’t make sense?

  • Are you trying to adapt to and make meaning out of a painful event (breakup, divorce, illness, death, or other loss)?

I Can Help.

  • I work with clients to identify and change how unconscious patterns from the past show up painfully in the present

  • My advanced training in psychoanalysis, literature, and feminist theory have taught me to focus not just on symptoms, but on the life story of the person in front of me

  • Culture and structures of exploitation contribute strengths and vulnerabilities to every person’s life, and I strive to welcome these concerns into the consulting room in a spirit of humility

What can you expect?

  • You will derive greater satisfaction and meaning from life, work, and relationships

  • You will experience more clarity on issues of identity, love, and long-term goals

  • You will find improved resilience in the face of life’s challenges

Savannah Rigney, MA

Julie Liszka
Professional Counselor Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here

Does this sound familiar?

  • Feeling overwhelmed by significant life changes or experiencing issues related to complex trauma?
  • Striving to build trust in yourself and secure relationships with others?
  • Are you seeking a life filled with more joy, purpose, and sense of peace?

I Can Help.

  • In our work together, I’ll guide you through a journey of self-discovery, helping you understand the connection between your mind and body, and supporting you in creating new patterns and insights that align with your personal hopes and goals.
  • I’m trained in a holistic and systematic approach, which means I consider how all aspects of your life have influenced you.
  • I approach our work with compassion and curiosity, always fostering hope and confidence in your healing journey.

What can you expect?

  • Let go of the burdens from the past, heal emotional wounds, and address the effects of trauma.
  • Enhanced self-awareness and understanding of your relationship with others.
  • Deeper access to your inner self, fostering qualities such as playfulness, connection, self-belief, and compassion.

Halle Winkler, MA

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you or your child struggling with identity or knowing who you are?
  • Does it feel hard to establish a “new normal” after things have changed?
  • Are you looking to improve your relationships with others, but aren’t sure where to start?
  • Are you constantly “in your head,” or do you struggle to trust yourself or your child to make decisions?

I Can Help.

  • I work from a systemic lens, looking to understand you in the context of the communities you are a part of.
  • My approach is trauma-integrated and attachment-based. This means that I deeply consider the impact of trauma and our earliest relationships on how we exist in the world today.
  • I am passionate about the cultivation of healthy relationships with ourselves and with others.

What can you expect?

  • I use a strength-based approach where we move at your pace.
  • You will feel a greater connection with yourself and with your body. Our bodies often know things that our minds haven’t yet processed– learning to connect with this can be a powerful tool.
  • You will gain practical coping strategies to get you feeling better so you feel empowered to tackle the big stuff.
  • I focus my work on children, teens, young adults, and their parents and prioritize whole family treatment when appropriate.

Mayan McDermott, MA

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Struggling with persistent burnout, no matter how much you try to recharge?
  • Consistently overwhelmed by your responsibilities, relationships, or reactions?
  • Feeling like you don’t belong or there’s something wrong with you?

I Can Help.

  • My role as a therapist is to facilitate a personalized, collaborative space in which you feel safe, comfortable, and understood. What’s important to you is important to me.
  • You can expect me to meet you with compassion, authenticity, humor, and openness. I rely heavily on a trauma-informed therapeutic approach that emphasizes the connection between your mind and body.
  • As a neurodivergent therapist who was diagnosed later in life, I know firsthand the grief, confusion, and internalized ableism that can sometimes come along with this discovery. Together, we can figure out how to soothe your nervous system, heal your relationship with yourself, and get in touch with your innate resources.

What can you expect?

  • Feeling more calm, curious, clear, compassionate in your relationships – with yourself and with the people that matter most to you.
  • Make sense of longstanding patterns of behavior and resolve feeling “stuck” in various places in life.
  • Learn how to express yourself authentically, to experience yourself fully, and to know yourself deeply.