Metrowest Nutrition and Therapy

Chris began his journey into psychotherapy with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Bryant University and went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at William James College. Prior to joining Metrowest Nutrition and Therapy, Chris spent 4+ years working as a clinician at Walden Behavioral Care with a focus on eating disorders.

Chris has extensive experience providing individual and group psychotherapy to clients for eating disorders, substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, and trauma. He works to create a proactive, compassionate, and safe space for clients to share and process their feelings and emotions while working towards developing skills to help improve distress tolerance, emotion regulation, self-esteem, self-compassion, and body acceptance.

Chris incorporates Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into his work with eating disorders and has utilized these models both in the hospital and in outpatient settings.  He works with teens 15 and older, young adults, adults, all gender and LGBTQIA+ indentities.

While in graduate school, Chris completed two years of his internship at Walden Behavioral Care in Westborough, MA where he provided individual and group psychotherapy, meal support, and facilitated CBT and DBT groups with clients.

Post-Graduate School, Chris continued his work at Walden Behavioral Care as Lead Adult Clinician providing individual and group psychotherapy and expand on his work providing crisis management, utilizing trauma informed treatment, and HAES informed care.

Chris takes a strength based approach to therapy with the belief that each client’s positive attributes, resources, and strengths are what make recovery possible and building on these positive with help build resilience and better state of well-being.

Specialties

Eating Disorders

Substance Use

Depression

Anxiety

Trauma