Veronica Akins, LICSW
(617) 331-5939

I believe that each person's therapuetic journey is unique. As a relational and practical therapist, I offer a thoughtful partnership that meets you where you are, provides supportive feedback and guidance to find resolve to your current problems and long-standing patterns that interfer with your core confident self. With sensitivity and compassion, I will help you sort through and find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and emotional discomfort.
Seeking support and guidance from a therapist is a brave act, yet a very vulnerable process. I will be thoughtful of your unique needs, working with you, to create what works best for you and together adapt as needed. Blending conventional and alternatives approaches, I draw on a variety of styles and techniques to incorporate what will be most helpful for each person.

Together we will build on your strengths, finding effective ways to achieve your goals, and discover how to sustain your progress even during stressful times. My focus is to understand you, your needs, and to provide a space for all of the parts of your "self,"and to create a space for you to feel safe, open to share and explore, while also being heard.

If you are seeking support with your partner or family, I will work with each of you to explore what is creating the tensions and how to best resolve the conflict and rebuild connection. In couples therapy, whether for married couples or those in committed relationships, they learn how to truly listen and hear one another, better understand the other's need, and what works best in negotiating each person's needs when they may conflict or not have the ability to be met by the partner.

How to develop and sustain connection is a vital focus. Members of the couple or family, often rediscover the other in a more compassionate way, working to reduce the intensity of disconnection, developing safe ways of understanding each other, communicating one's needs, and preserving the strength of their relationship even in the midst of life's complexities.

To explore if Veronica would be a good match for you for individual therapy or for couples or family therapy, please visit her website or call her directly. She is currently taking new clients. www.VeronicaAkins.com