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Judy Silvan, Licensed Psychotherapist, AEDP Psychotherapy of BodyMind and Trust: Therapy, Supervision and Teaching

Welcome! Psychotherapy of Body-Mind & Trust offers a return from feeling “stuck”…and from recent or past emotional trauma. A betrayal, a major life crisis, or an attachment breach brings loss or even a diagnosis of PTSD. Perhaps the death of someone dear to you or despair from daily work or relationship triggers have finally made seeking therapy a reality. Healing is achieved through talking, laughing, and sometimes… Your tears share your powerful story, or the anger in your arms or upper back comes to life. 

working together

Our work will lead you to profound realizations and actionable epiphanies. You will find your defenses softening as you relax and begin to allow emotions to surface, in an accelerated way, under our shared care and safety. You are supported to find and unfold glimmers of possibility — amidst the defenses and pain that have maintained the 'trauma loop' of dys-regulation until now. The results are sensations of feeling safe, understood and no longer alone in dealing with your emotional anguish. Within each session, deep transformational experiences are always a remarkable surprise!

Diego Rivera

Painting by Diego Rivera

specializations

  • married or committed couples come to counseling or therapy with me to discern their road forward: towards staying together in a peaceable loving relationship, to heal breaches post- affair or to make the tough decision to pave the road towards a healthy break-up or divorce.

  • Psychotherapy with a highy skilled, safe female allows defenses and knee-jerk relational avoidance to be soothed and calmed. For men, vulnerable states, relationships, closer communication, and emotional intelligence are the new brave.

  • Early developmental or attachment trauma blunts or dysregulates our emotional capacities. Studied movements are taught to you, and sometimes authentic, spontaneous movements, (or even silence and no movement), allows us to viscerally and physically be in the moment together.  Bioenergetic movements encourage an energetic up-regulation or a deep relaxation called letting-down.

  • If you are seeking change and transformation NOT from the perspective of a mental health problem or diagnosis, rather for help in identifying, creating & or following passions in your work or personal life, I offer AED-style Life and Executive Coaching Services.

There's a tiny flame inside you that never goes out; it lights up the path behind you and the path in front of you. You can learn to follow it with the help of a relaxed, very experienced therapist.

testimonials

  • “Judy has a keen memory for detail, is an avid listener and provides her own insights and ideas. Meeting with her is more of a conversation than a one-way monologue. She's well read on women's issues and is open to new or different perspectives when they arise. While I never got very comfortable with bioenergetics, she did not push it. You can work with that element of her training as you wish."

    — Kristi I., August, 2008

  • “Judy Silvan is an excellent resource. Attentive, creative, patient and calm, her ability to help me get inside myself has been a much-needed relief. As a first-time seeker of therapy, I was both nervous and apprehensive coming in, but found myself immediately embracing the process."

    — Thom W., February, 2017

  • “I just want to say that I really enjoyed talking with you today. I felt safe and heard. In my life I find myself having to hide, hold back emotion and pretend I'm someone who I'm not or no longer am. So it took me some time this morning to recognize those habits and to feel comfortable enough to speak my truth. All in all I feel so fortunate to have found you and I am soooo ready to embark on this journey."

      — Mara R., June, 2013

  • "I went in feeling fine but then the tears started to roll as I got into my body. It's really affirming to be able to share what I felt without fearing that you might dismiss or deny my experience. I think that is part of the healing which in itself is a big thing."

    — M.K., April, 2016

  • "Her focus on movement really took the healing process to the next level. Judy's great at introducing it at a slow pace. She is genuine and has a very comforting presence."

    — Sean K., July, 2014

  • "Thanks, Judy! You were key in getting me out of Boston & into a new life! (I tell people this about you all the time!) Many, many, many thanks!"

    — Dana K., September, 2014

  • "Judy is the most compassionate and helpful therapist I have seen in the 15 years since I adopted my daughter — the only professional who has been able to hold me and my daughter in her light at the same time and respectfully guide me forward."

    — Deb L.  January, 2016

  • "Hi Judy!! Loved your feedback! Thank you for expressing all of this. You really are gifted!! Thanks for listening and I can feel the healing working."

    — Juanita A. March, 2015

 Call 617-596-1403, or email Judy Silvan, certified AEDP therapist and certified AEDP supervisor has offices and remote therapy and counseling near Cambridge, MA, Lexington, MA or Boston, MA. Judy Silvan provides Accellerated Experiential Dynami Psychotherapy (AEDP) also in the Bay Area, CA or LA, CA or in CA for help with: Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Attachment-Trauma, Individual Therapy, Couple Counseling, Marriage Therapy, Tween or Teen Therapy, Sibling Therapy, Mindfulness, Movement and Body-based Therapy, Yoga in Psychotherapy, LGBTQ Therapy, Non-Binary and Transgender Therapy & Transitions, Adult-Sibling Therapy, Loss, Divorce, Grief, Clinical Supervision, Teaching or Consultation, AEDP-Certified Supervision and more. Remote or tele-therapy also available.