At Compass, we strive to provide support, guidance and compassion to individuals, couples and families seeking help. We are an integrative private practice that offers psychotherapy and counseling. We focus on individual work, couples therapy and marriage counseling, grief and loss, caregiver support across the lifespan and acculturation issues such as living abroad as an expat. Our commitment to our clients is to help them identify, understand and re-imagine life stressors as controllable experiences for personal growth.
At Compass, clinicians adapt therapeutic approaches on a case-by-case basis to meet the emotional and cognitive needs of our clients. For example, a couples session would focus on reconnection and building trust, whereas a session with an adolescent or adult might engage with more traditional talk therapy that’s insight-driven or behaviorally rooted. In short, we tailor services to the needs and motivations of our clients and their families.
In working with our clients, we draw primarily from traditional therapeutic methods that are evidence-based and research-sound. Treatment modalities that one should expect include the following among others: Gottman Method Couples Therapy, which helps couples build a healthier, stronger relationship; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which teaches core skills such as mindfulness, emotion regulation, and the importance of interpersonal relationships; and Family-based Therapy (a Maudsley approach), which recognizes the supportive roles families play in disorder eating treatment. We offer services in English or Spanish.
treatment Focus includes:
Couples therapy and relationship issues
Grief & Loss
Anxiety and depression
Caregiver and parent support
Acculturation and Life Transitions such as found among expat communities
Disordered Eating
Perfectionism and shame
Infertility and postpartum
reimbursement
Currently, we do not accept insurance. We are more than willing to provide the necessary paperwork for out-of-network reimbursement to clients. However, we cannot guarantee that therapy will be covered under any given insurance policy.
CANCELLATION POLICY
If you miss your appointment or if you cancel with less than a 24-hour notice, you will still be required to pay for the missed session. That said, there are always allowances.
Vanessa Corbera, LICSW
LICSW (licensed independent clinical social worker) in Rhode Island (RI), Massachusetts (MA) and Virginia (VA)
Master of Social Work (Boston College) and Master of Art History (Sotheby’s Institute of Art)
Voted Best Child Therapist in Expatriates Magazine's 2017 Best of Paris
As a psychotherapist and US-licensed clinical social worker, I am dedicated to offering support, guidance and compassion to individuals, families and couples seeking help. Many of my clients come to therapy to explore new perspectives on current life stressors and to discover practical ways to build a more meaningful and purposeful life. I have a strong affinity in acculturation issues due to my own experiences of living abroad (splitting my time between the US and Europe). I have experience in outpatient and inpatient care, as well as in administering diagnostic evaluations and conducting crisis assessments. I refined my skills and approach while working at Hasbro Children Hospital's Eating Disorder Program and at Gateway Healthcare's Med-Psych unit (a collaborative project with the Partial Hospital Program at Hasbro) in Providence, RI. Online therapy offered.
Please feel free to reach out by emailing us at admin@mycompass.care
We look forward to speaking with you!
