Schema therapists in New Bedford, MA
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Abelee Groff
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LICSW
My practice is grounded in trauma-informed, attachment-based therapy that emphasizes emotional safety, collaboration, and respect for each client’s values and relationships. I work with adults navigating anxiety, complex trauma, emotional regulation challenges, and relationship stress among other issues.
I take an integrative, evidence-based approach that incorporates Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic and nervous system–informed therapy, attachment-focused work, and emotion-focused interventions. While my work is rooted in clinical research, I also recognize that not all healing can be fully explained by science alone. I remain open to the many ways the mind, body, and inner world interact, honoring intuition, meaning-making, and embodied experience as part of the therapeutic process.
I provide affirming, nonjudgmental care for clients from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent adults. Many clients seek my practice for support around relationship dynamics, intimacy concerns, and navigating relationships that may not follow traditional models. I aim to create a space where clients feel understood without needing to educate their therapist.
My goal is to help clients develop greater emotional resilience, healthier relationships, and a more secure connection with themselves and others.
5 Years Experience
Online in New Bedford, MA (Online Only)
New Bedford is a southeastern Massachusetts city with one of the most distinctive identities of any American city of its size—Herman Melville's Moby-Dick opens here, and the city was once the richest per capita in America thanks to its whaling industry—now home to the highest-volume commercial fishing port in the United States by dollar value, with an economy still anchored by fishing, manufacturing, and logistics. The city has a large Cape Verdean-American community (one of the largest in the world outside Cape Verde), as well as significant Portuguese and Brazilian populations, and the intersection of these communities' mental health needs—including the specific experiences of Cape Verdean identity, immigration, and intergenerational stress—creates important considerations for culturally competent care. Southcoast Health provides behavioral health services, and community health organizations serve the diverse population. Common therapy concerns include fishing industry occupational trauma and risk, Cape Verdean and Portuguese-American identity and immigration stress, economic anxiety, substance use (New Bedford has been significantly affected by opioids), and the mental health challenges of a proud working-class city navigating industrial and demographic change.
Schema Therapy therapists in New Bedford, MA Statistics
Schema Therapy therapists in New Bedford, MA average 5 years of experience. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are ADHD (100%), Anxiety or Fears (100%), and Autism and Asperger's (100%).
Average years in practice
5 Years Experience
Offer sliding scale
100%
Gender ID
| 100% |
Female |
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Session Type
| 100% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | ADHD |
| 100% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 100% | Autism and Asperger's |
| 100% | Body Image |
| 100% | Chronic Pain or Illness |
| 100% | Highly Sensitive Person |
| 100% | Hoarding |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 100% | Senior |
| 100% | Young Adult |
Client Focus
| 100% | Buddhist |
| 100% | Christian |
| 100% | LGBTQ+ |
| 100% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 100% | Women |