About Russell
Russell Levine is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) practicing in Massachusetts. He brings 15 years of experience and focuses on anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and LGBTQ issues. He aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supportive.
He offers straightforward, person-focused work. Sessions center on listening first and then building practical skills together. Russell uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
He also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to create calm and clarity. His background includes extensive work with people dealing with depression, bipolar mood concerns, panic and social anxiety, and grief. He also helps with relationship and family problems, caregiver stress, and issues tied to identity such as gender dysphoria and sexuality.
Russell works with people coping with life changes, career stress, and isolation or loneliness. In sessions he helps people set small, doable goals and practices they can use between meetings. Narrative therapy ideas are used to help clients reframe difficult stories about themselves.
Existential themes support conversations about values, meaning, and next steps in life. Russell offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through the site after completing a short matching questionnaire and are part of a cancelable subscription plan.
How his approaches work online
Russell commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection so the person can talk openly about what matters. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that feed anxiety, panic, or low mood.He often brings in mindfulness and narrative ideas too. Mindfulness offers simple practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Narrative work helps people tell their story differently so they can move forward with clearer choices. Choosing which approach to emphasize is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging enable brief exchanges or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into work, school, or caregiver routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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