Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) therapists in Rhode Island
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ACT
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 Multiple States
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
(Online Only)
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Shaelyn Cataldo
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, PMH-C, EMDRIA Certified Therapist™
I believe our symptoms and struggles often make sense when we understand what we have lived through. Anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, and relationship patterns may have developed as ways of adapting, protecting ourselves, or staying connected. My role is to help you understand these patterns with curiosity and compassion rather than criticism.
I offer a warm, relational, honest, and sometimes direct therapeutic space. Together, we explore how past experiences, attachment wounds, and complex trauma may continue to shape your nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. Insight matters, but our work does not stop there. We also create opportunities to experience and respond to yourself differently.
As a Certified EMDR Therapist, I integrate attachment-focused EMDR, somatic therapy, IFS-informed parts work, and expressive approaches to support deeper, embodied change. The goal is not to become someone new, but to strengthen self-trust, reconnect with your needs and inner voice, and feel more at home in yourself.
11 Years Experience
ACT
Faithful Connections Christian Counseling LLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
What makes our therapy practice unique is our compassionate, personalized approach that meets you where you are without judgment. We create a safe and supportive environment where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered to make meaningful changes. Whether you are struggling with relationships, anxiety, stress, trauma, or life transitions, you do not have to navigate it alone. Contact us today to take the first step toward healing, growth, and a more fulfilling life.
0 Years Experience
In-Person in Cumberland, RI 02864
Online in Rhode Island
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Dorothy Brown
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I am a Psychologist and a certified yoga teacher. I take a wholistic approach to therapy with a slightly spiritual bent. I believe in the mind-body connection and encourage mindfulness and meditation if clients feel comfortable with it. I work with people to change their unhealthy thoughts and to relax their body.
36 Years Experience
In-Person in Portsmouth, RI 02871
Online in Massachusetts,
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ACT
Kerline Theodore
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LICSW
From the outside, life may look successful, but internally you may feel overwhelmed, burned out, emotionally exhausted, or stuck in cycles of overthinking and self-doubt. Through a trauma-informed, evidence-based approach (CBT, DBT, and EMDR), I help clients break free from patterns of stress and perfectionism so they can feel more grounded, confident, and in control of their lives.
17 Years Experience
Online in Florida, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
(Online Only)