Judith Flynn, PhD

As a therapist, my goal is to create a loving and compassionate place for self exploration and connection -- a safe container for clients to apply their own wisdom, bravery, courage, and power to look at difficult issues (loss, failure, trauma, stuckness, end of life…) and to heal. I see myself as a respectful companion and guide. I tend to use a somatic-based approach to help clients to access their own true self or inner healing intelligence. I believe that we all yearn for a sense of wholeness and we often suffer the most when we have inner conflict (i.e. different parts of ourselves have competing needs). Often these conflicts are below the surface of awareness in our unconscious and I use meditation and visualization techniques and medicine assisted psychotherapy to explore this territory. Before becoming a therapist,, I spent over 20 years at Harvard University where I earned a PhD in Anthropology. While at Harvard in addition to research and teaching, I was a Resident Dean of Quincy House for 14 years and then I worked at the Bureau of Study Counsel. In these roles, I helped thousands of students and found my passion for emotional healing work which led to me do significant depth work and another graduate degree in counseling psychology.