Our care
Therapy
Real conversations with a licensed therapist who knows your story — in person or by secure video.
What therapy looks like here
Therapy at Northline is a regular standing appointment with a licensed therapist who gets to know you over time. Most people meet weekly or every other week, for 50–60 minutes. You can come into our East Lyme office or meet by secure video — whichever fits your week better.
It’s not text-based. It’s not anonymous. It’s a real relationship with a real person who’s there to help you make sense of what’s going on and figure out what to do about it.
What we work on
Most of what we see falls into a few buckets:
- Anxiety and worry — learning what fuels it and what actually quiets it.
- Depression and low mood — getting unstuck, getting moving, finding what matters again.
- Stress and life transitions — new job, new baby, divorce, loss, retirement, illness.
- Relationship patterns — recurring problems with partners, family, or coworkers.
- Trauma and difficult experiences — what happened, how it still shows up, and how to feel less ruled by it.
- Substance use — honest conversations about what’s working and what isn’t.
The approaches we use
Our therapists are trained in evidence-based approaches and will draw on whichever ones fit you and what you’re working on. The names matter less than the fit; here are the most common:
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) — the most-studied approach for anxiety, depression, and OCD. Practical, structured, focused on noticing patterns and trying new ones.
- ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) — built around values and willingness; often the right fit for chronic worry or stuckness.
- DBT skills — emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness. Especially useful for intense emotions or relationship reactivity.
- Short-term psychodynamic therapy — understanding the patterns underneath the behavior.
- Motivational Interviewing — for the parts of you that want change and the parts that don’t.
- Trauma-focused approaches — including CPT for PTSD, with referral to specialty trauma providers when that’s what’s needed.
Therapy alongside medication
If you’re also working with one of our psychiatric clinicians, your therapist and clinician are in the same practice and can coordinate easily. You don’t have to be the messenger between providers.