Portland Therapy Center
Sherie Ruppersberger

Sherie Ruppersberger

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

L18582

Relational depth therapist working with individuals, variously structured relationships, and groups.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

617-401-7875

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At a Glance

Me

Provides free initial consultation

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

My Ideal Client

I tend to work with people addressing life transitions, relationship issues, shame, depression, grief, moods they don’t understand, and questions around identity. I often work with college and grad students, recent grads, artists, and older adults. If appropriate, we have the option to meet multiple times per week for more intensive psychoanalytic work.

My Approach to Helping

In our process, we explore what's been difficult to be with on your own. As painful recurring patterns from your everyday life emerge in the therapy room, we listen together to what your symptoms are trying to tell you, and we work to make sense of your unique experience. New ideas and ways of responding can become available when you tend to your inner world in the presence of a skilled and attentive therapist, whether you're dealing with a known, ongoing concern like depression or anxiety, or a new one you don't quite have words for yet. I have training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This means we go deeper into what is emerging in the present moment together, and unlike what you may have seen in media depictions, I'm not a silent blank screen! I also have a background in somatic bodywork, and I don't believe therapy works without attending to one's felt sense, or what's in the way of feeling through the body.

More About the People I Treat

If you're looking to feel attended to in an unhurried way, with the agenda of allowing space for whatever is wanting to be heard, my practice might be a good fit. Maybe you've tried more structured types of therapy and found them to be helpful to a point, and now want to see what comes up in a more open ended style. In our work, we will use the therapeutic relationship to help you learn about your patterns and what your symptoms want you to know, to lead to meaningful change. The best way to get a sense of working with me is to give it a try. I'd be very happy to have a brief phone call with you to see if starting together makes sense.

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