Individual Counseling
Counseling and Anxiety Management Therapy for Individuals
Marina Gonzalez-Ang is a Massachusetts anxiety therapist. While she specializes in working with parents, children, and families, the core principles of valuable therapeutic support hold true for all individuals. In a home-based cognitive behavioral therapy setting, Marina works with Massachusetts and New Hampshire clients to retrain the brain to better understand our own anxious thoughts and emotions. Often, we ascribe outcomes to situations, and not to our automatic and unquestioned thoughts and feelings about those situations.
Many think of counseling as an exercise in relaxation, and while that is certainly one benefit of working with Marina’s supportive and calming approach, it is also an exercise in hard work. Via the application of consistent techniques (for example, journaling), in working with Marina, you will begin to develop a better awareness of when anxiety is going to show up, how to break negative patterns when it does, and how to replace behaviors that add to one’s anxiety with behaviors that reduce it. This is not merely academic practice for Marina, who has struggled with her own anxiety and has developed first-hand knowledge of how to best manage it.
Because each client is unique, Marina does not employ any “one size fits all” counseling programs, nor does she offer outlandish claims that she will be the source of all solutions to any challenges her clients may face. Rather, her strength lies in her innate empathy, as she assists clients in becoming their own change agents. With an array of practical strategies, tactics, tools, and techniques to draw from, Marina helps clients implement and maintain interventions that extend not just to the close of one’s last counseling session, but to one’s entire lifetime.
If you are ready to make a positive change, please contact Marina now.
To be contacted for a FREE Consultation, fill out an intake form HERE.
Marina Gonzalez-Ang, Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Marina Gonzalez-Ang is a licensed mental health counselor who specializes in helping children, adolescents, adults, and families recognize, reduce, and manage anxiety. Serving clients in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Gonzalez-Ang began her private practice in 2023.
Prior to founding her private practice, Gonzalez-Ang successfully counseled many youth struggling with anxiety and a variety of related relationship issues, including trauma, special education needs, and school avoidance/absenteeism. Gonzalez-Ang spent years working with families in their homes to address the many complexities of relationships and family systems.
Informed by her own experiences with taming anxiety as a child, Gonzalez-Ang is recognized as an extraordinarily supportive counselor with a talent for breaking down barriers to progress with children and parents alike. Gonzalez-Ang holds an M.A. in counseling psychology from Lesley University and a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.
Gonzalez-Ang is a leading proponent of the Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) method pioneered by Dr. Eli Lebowitz of the Yale Child Study Center; this approach focuses on empowering parents to change their own behaviors in ways that will help their child(ren) overcome anxiety. Marina is a newly trained EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapist. In addition to practicing the SPACE method and traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Gonzalez-Ang enjoys sharing yoga’s anxiety-reducing benefits with interested clients.
She resides with her family in Medford, Massachusetts and together with her two children, she enjoys skiing, baking, and making homemade ice cream.
Professional Credentials
- Licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts (10081) and New Hampshire (5507)
- Specialty: children, parent, and family anxiety management
- M.A. in counseling psychology, Lesley University
- B.A., University of Massachusetts
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) Therapist.
- Trained in Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE),
Yale Child Study Center
- Trained in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety, Beck Institute
- Trained in family therapy, Therapy Training Boston (Watertown, Mass.)
- Trained in yoga for anxiety and depression, Soulful Yoga Therapy (Salem, Mass.)
- Graduate certificate in trauma studies (counseling and psychology), Lesley University
Contact Marina Gonzalez-Ang to discuss how she can help you or your family, or learn more about counseling options.
To be contacted for a FREE Consultation, fill out an intake form HERE.
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