Michael D. Lynch

How will I – a California trained LMFT – be more effective for you? Unlike many Massachusetts counselors based in the “medical model” I don’t treat symptoms, I treat systems. I’ll work with you and partners/spouses or members of your family, if you choose to include them, to identify not “What’s wrong with me?” but rather, “How’d I get here?” We’re all products of our childhood. I’ll work with you to identify the faulty agreements forced upon you before you could defend yourself against them, co-discover alternate viewpoints about yourself and the world and then enact these new agreements to create a new life. Grounded in Existential Psychology but practicing an eclectic, “any road will get you there” approach, I became a therapist because I had good therapy myself and my vocation is to pay that forward in a grounded, down-to-earth, creative and even humorous way. When we laugh at our problems we know we are standing outside of them and thus have power over them. I work with all ages, genders and identities but have a particular passion for the therapeutically under-represented adult and adolescent male population that traditionally do not seek out treatment. I’d be honored to guide you in the discovery and creation of your true self.