Marina Kantarovich Rodríguez, LICSW she/her
Worker-Owner
Trauma deprives people of joy, play and ease; healing invites us to reclaim them. Healing is painful, too—but without those elements, the pain abounds and there is no resiliency to hold it. If you are drawn to exploring your inner world through the body, through story, through play and imagination, and you want a collaborator rather than an expert, reach out.
Having immigrated to the U.S. as a political refugee and lived in Chile, I see the work of psychotherapy as intimately linked to an understanding of our political and social contexts. Together, we study how our bodies hold and express beliefs that were inherited rather than chosen. We can then support ourselves to take actions that are life affirming and agentive.
I am also someone who lives with disability and neurodivergence. My own healing has involved repeatedly relinquishing unhelpful narratives about what it means to be “different.” I am committed to helping my clients do the same so that they can recover their most authentic expression and live a soul-filled life. I believe this is one of the most powerful acts of resistance: reclaiming our wholeness.
As the co-founder of Catalyst Cooperative Healing, one of the country's first mental health cooperatives, I draw from liberatory abolitionist traditions to inform my clinical training. I am trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Ego State Therapy and Somatics. Additionally, I have been studying Buddhism since 2007 and practicing jiu-jitsu since 2024.
The populations that I work best with tend to be: immigrants or children of immigrants who are hungry to reclaim their dignity, politically awake souls tired of therapy that ignores the world outside the room, or anyone who needs a compassionate kick in the ass. I speak Russian, English and Spanish. I welcome clients who are ready to enter into a genuine therapeutic partnership: one that is curious, creative, and alive.
I am currently taking on weekly therapy clients as well as clients who are interested in jump-starting their healing within an EMDR intensive format. While I only see adults and adolescents for individual therapy, I offer EMDR intensive sessions for all populations. I have extensive training and 15 years of experience providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults and families.
I take most insurance plans.
Brittany Mendez, LICSW she/her
Worker-Owner
Ego state work guides us to identify and ally with parts of ourselves. I use this modality in conjunction with EMDR to support you in working through traumas and showing up for your life in ways that align with your values. I want to help you move towards personal empowerment and strengthen your capacity for self-compassion. My style is authentic, playful and warm. I believe that every human being is deeply valuable. I'm sensitive to the impact of systemic oppression on your mental health. I'm interested in getting to how your identities and personal history informs your lived experience of this chronically stressful/ traumatizing present political moment.
Brittany is accepting new clients. She offers individual therapy for adults. She accepts Optum (public), Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tufts (public), MBHP, Carelon and various other plans.