About
Alex Solomon
I am a licensed clinical social worker with over fifteen years of experience in social work and over ten years of experience as a therapist. I have worked in mobile/phone crisis, residential co-occurring disorder treatment, mandated substance abuse and anger management treatment, and in an outpatient community mental health center. In all these positions, I worked extensively with people involved in the legal system, people actively using substances or in early recovery, and people with complex trauma reactions that were poorly understood by other providers. I am currently in private practice.
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I opened my own practice to have the flexibility to offer services in a way that worked best for my clients. I enjoy working with people with complex and long-standing issues, and am constantly rewarded by seeing my clients' growth and healing.
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I moved to an intensive treatment model because I found that many people struggled with making the transition to and from therapy when services were limited to an hour. I found more and more that new avenues for exploration began to open up with only fifteen minutes left in the therapy session. I wanted to offer the opportunity for people to explore and experience a healing process without feeling rushed or limited by time constraints, and without feeling that they needed to hold back their emotional experience so that they could return to work or home life immediately after processing a traumatic memory.
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I have training in Motivational Interviewing, EMDR (including EMDR interventions for substance abuse treatment), ego state therapy/parts work, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and somatic therapy, among other modalities. My orientation is relational and person centered. I use my training and experience and work with my clients to use these modalities in a way that works for them. My social work training is grounded in the theory of person-in-environment, and it is important in my work to identify societal dynamics and systems which impact a person's internal experience.
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I have lived experience as a queer, genderqueer, female-presenting, Jewish, neurodivergent, disabled person. While I see people of all backgrounds in my practice, I am not a believer in the therapist-as-blank-slate, and because I practice in a relational model, my own identities and experiences inform my work.
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CT License #8795
VT License #135480
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