Rebecca Bell-Gurwitz

I enjoy working with a diverse clientele, though I specialize in issues of identity, including history of traumatic invalidation, questioning gender and sexual identities, and struggles with body image and dysphoria. I have specific interest in helping individuals successfully navigate difficult life transitions and learn how to confront patterns of behavior that have historically held them back. I am invested in helping my clients heal from traumatic experience and reclaim their stories and selves from entaglements in pervasive fear, shame, and unprocessed grief. I am intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, having provided adherent DBT for 4 years. With this foundation of training, I incorporate evidence based practices with creative emotion processing. I support trauma recovery through many modes of being, including exposure, as well as cultivating a unique voice through art and somatic experiencing. I aim to help clients find and develop voice, learn to assert boundaries, and build self-compassion. It’s time to build a foundation in self acceptance and move towards change that feels authentic to you! I will work with you to recover from trauma and systemic experiences of invalidation, giving you freedom to build a life that’s unapologetically yours.