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I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 10 years of post-graduate clinical experience. I graduated from Rhode Island College School of Social Work in 2016 with my Master of Social Work and a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Child and Adolescent Trauma. I am the owner of, and sole therapist at Tabula Rasa Therapy, LLC. I provide gender-affirming care and have expertise in LGBTQ+ issues, adult and childhood trauma including working with survivors of conversion therapy, anxiety, depression, identity formation, and life changes.

My name is Benjamin. With over 25 years of experience, I help individuals and couples build stronger, more fulfilling relationships and improve emotional well-being. I work with adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other life challenges.

My approach is personalized, collaborative, and focused on meaningful, lasting growth. I help clients better understand their emotions, strengthen connections, and develop practical tools for everyday life.

Therapy with me is real, down-to-earth, and engaging—I bring honesty, humor, and compassion to create a space where you can grow, heal, and be yourself. Book with me here or at https://evolvetothrive9.com.

I am a Mental Health Counselor, licensed in NY, MA, NJ, NH, RI, KS, UT, WI, IN, AR, and OR, with over 20 years experience in the counseling field. I have had experience assisting clients with a wide range of concerns, such as, parenting issues, family/personal relationships, grief/loss, depression, anxiety, and anger management.

Sometimes life blows up in a way you never saw coming. A relationship ends. Someone lies to you. Trust gets shattered. You lose someone you love. Anxiety starts taking over your brain. Or you wake up one day and realize the life you thought you were building is not the life you actually have.

A lot of the people I work with are functioning just fine on the outside while internally thinking, What the hell just happened to my life? They're replaying conversations, second-guessing themselves, trying to make sense of someone else's behavior, wondering whether they missed something, and feeling completely exhausted by their own thoughts.

You don't need to show up with a diagnosis or a beautifully organized explanation of what's wrong. You can bring the messy version.

I'm not a therapist who is going to sit silently for 50 minutes, nod occasionally, and then ask how that made you feel. I am engaged. I ask questions. I notice patterns. I will tell you what I'm seeing. I will validate what deserves validation, and I will also challenge you when I think you are getting stuck, avoiding something important, or being much harder on yourself than the situation actually calls for.

There is room here for grief, anger, confusion, ugly truths, dark humor, bad decisions, overthinking, faith, and the occasional sentence that starts with, "I know this sounds crazy, but..."

I work especially well with adults dealing with anxiety, grief, heartbreak, betrayal, complicated relationships, and major life changes.

What happened matters. But I do not want the worst thing that happened to you to become the organizing principle for the rest of your life.

I graduated with a Bachelors in Science in Recreation from Green Mountain College and then went on to get my Masters in Social Work from the University of Vermont. I have been licensed since 2012 but have been working in the industry in different capacities since 2003. My career has taken me down different paths allowing me to work in residential treatment, wilderness therapy, as a school social worker, in community mental health, as a hospital social worker (working in the ICU, medical surgical unit, and ER), and now working at Stable Connections, providing equine assisted treatments.