Client focused multidisciplinary therapy via secure convenient telehealth
Boston Psychotherapy Associates is a personalized, private practice that offers effective treatment for a wide range of psychological and emotional issues. Our approach to psychotherapy is professional and confidential, highly individualized and not dictated by rigid orthodoxies. The practice is kept compact so that we can offer personalized and responsive services. New patients are seen quickly, usually within a week of contacting us.
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Mitchel D. Rose, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1972) founded Boston Psychotherapy Associates in 1980 with a single, overriding practice philosophy: “We want to offer the quality of care and service that we ourselves would want to receive: careful, thoughtful, effective, individualized and personal.”Dr. Rose is Massachusetts Licensed Psychologist 2252 and Health Service Provider. He is a long-time member of the Psychology Department at Tufts University and has also taught at Harvard University, Simmons College and the University of Pennsylvania. The co-author of two texts on sexuality, Human Sexuality and The Psychology of Human Sexuality (both published by John Wiley and Sons), Dr. Rose has treatment specialties in sexual dysfunctions and other issues relating to sexuality, including sexual and pornography compulsions. Anxiety, phobias, depression, substance abuse, career and personal development, and academic difficulties are among his other areas of treatment specialty. He treats individual adults, couples and college-age late adolescents.
Dr. Rose is highly experienced in both insight-oriented and cognitive-behavioral therapies. With a strong background in the neurosciences, Dr. Rose is well-informed on the usages and cautions of such non-prescription ancillary treatments for psychological problems as SAM-e, St. John’s Wort and valerian. (See the links page for some useful references on these and other relevant issues.)
About people who have tried to change their lives for the better but have been unable, Dr. Rose says, “it is a privilege and gives me great satisfaction to be a part of their second chance.”
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Karen Rose (Smith College School for Social Work, 1983) has been in clinical practice as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a principal at Boston Psychotherapy Associates for over 30 years. Ms. Rose has been a supervisor for Master of Social Work students at Simmons College through her work at Harvard Vanguard (Harvard Community Health Plan) and has lectured at Tufts University and other Boston-area schools.
Ms. Rose summarizes her treatment philosophy as this: “My work with patients is highly interactive. I recognize that the psychological and emotional work that people have come to do can seem difficult, and I always try to be an active collaborator rather than a passive sounding board for my patients. In this way, I believe that we can together accomplish substantial benefit with the minimum of distress.”
Ms. Rose’s clinical specialties include eating disorders, obesity, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, infertility issues, women’s issues, and general life development. Working collaboratively with area hospital programs, she counsels people preparing to undergo gastric by-pass surgery. She uses an eclectic approach to therapy, with an emphasis on cognitive and psychodynamic approaches. She works with individual adults, couples and late adolescents.
We Are Pleased to Offer
Experience: Our therapists are senior practitioners. We are not a training institution; patients are seen only by highly experienced, licensed therapists, never interns or students.
Information: We keep up to date with research-supported treatment methodologies and share current information with our patients.
Accessibility: We are highly accessible and responsive for email (preferred), text or telephone contact during and after practice hours. Every effort is made to accommodate patients’ schedules for appointments. We offer convenient appointment hours.
Resources: We maintain highly screened referral resources and networks for our patients in medical, nutritional, educational, legal, financial, and other service areas. We work collaboratively with several Boston-area psychiatrists if our patients can benefit from prescription medications. If we cannot offer the services that prospective patients require, we are happy to assist them in acquiring the proper resources.
Insurance coverage: We are out-of-network providers. We will provide superbills for submission to insurers for reimbursement upon request.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. The Boston area attracts many transfers in the academic, medical and business communities. The start-up period can be stressful, disruptive and isolating. Because we are acutely aware of problems of relocation, Boston Psychotherapy Associates is especially attuned to the needs of those in transition.
In addition to initiating new therapy relationships, we are highly experienced in assisting in the transfer of psychotherapeutic care from previous locations. We will gladly consult with prior providers with explicit permissions.
Our philosophy of treatment extends to facilitating life adjustments beyond the therapeutic relationship. With more than a third of a century of practice in the Boston area, we are in a position to assist with needs even beyond our own therapeutic services, from our trusted list of medical, legal, financial, and other professional providers. And we have been helpful to our patients in integrating them into the new social context here.
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Because the Boston area attracts so many students from across the nation and the world, we have become specialists in working with patients who may have begun their psychotherapeutic and medical treatments in other locations, or who wish to begin treatment but have their family, medical, and insurance supports elsewhere.
We welcome contacts from students, their families, and professional providers regarding our services. If we are unable to provide the necessary services for any reasons, we will, at no charge, help find appropriate care.
In many cases, we can work directly with health insurers from other states and local schools (we are preferred providers for all states’ Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans). If we are not contracted with the insurer to bill them directly for you, we will facilitate whatever reimbursement is possible to the patient or family.
We are specialists in working with college and graduate students at all levels, and know the academic, emotional, social, and cognitive challenges that they face. In addition to being a highly experienced psychotherapist, Dr. Mitchel Rose has been a Boston-area professor for over 35 years, serving on the Academic Standings Committee of Tufts University and advising undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Karen Rose has worked therapeutically with students of all levels, and has lectured at secondary and university schools in the Boston area. She is on referral lists from many local colleges and universities.
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Anxiety & phobias
Depression
Eating disorders
Obesity & overeating
Substance abuse
Compulsive disorders
Couples issues
Seniors therapy
Infertility
Stress
Sexual dysfunction
Sexual issues, including compulsions
Career & educational issues
Women’s issues
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We offer specialized therapy for seniors. Besides our decades of lived experience, we have treated successfully many people in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and even in their 90’s. Besides providing specialized psychotherapy for the issues of elders, we have an extensive knowledge base of ideas and resources that are often of help with positive mental health of this population.
telehealth
Boston Psychotherapy Associates has provided in-person therapy and counseling for more than thirty-five years. The Covid-19 pandemic forced us to stop seeing patients in the same room and switch to a remote mode. We conduct sessions over Zoom or, at the patient’s preference by phone.
The experience of our patients has been positive. The extra time, stress, and expense of having to arrive at our downtown offices vanishes. Patients can focus on the therapy session with far fewer distractions and then quickly return to the rest of their busy schedules. Most of our patients actively prefer telehealth and would find it inconvenient to return to the traditional in-office mode.
Telehealth has been so effective, that we have adopted it as our only mode of therapy. If you have any concerns about telehealth, we will be pleased to discuss these in a complementary conversation.
Contact Us
Because we spend most of the day with clients, email or text message is generally the quickest and most efficient way to contact us.
We are available by telephone, email, or Zoom for a no-charge conversation to discuss therapy with us. If we are unable to meet your needs in terms of hours, insurance acceptance, specialties or for any other reason, we will be glad to direct you toward other resources.
For general inquiries about Boston Psychotherapy Associates:
email via the contact button or call or text: 617.4I3.7711
Contact Mitchel D. Rose, Ph.D.:
call/text: 617.413.7711
fax: 425.871.8086
Contact Karen K. Rose, L.I.C.S.W.:
call/text: 617.413.7828
fax: 425.871.8086