About Deborah Coulston, M.A., M.A.T.S.       Marital/Family Therapy
   Individual/Group Psychotherapy                 Expressive Arts Therapy
   Nutritional Psychology                                 Wellness & Life Coaching
   Stress Reduction Training                           Weight Management
   Addictions and Compulsive Disorders        Intake Form
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About
Deborah Coulston
    
“The recovery of ordinary courage is nothing less than extraordinary because it depends upon finding a  voice to speak what has been unspeakable.”

Deborah Coulston is an experienced professional psychotherapist, marital and family therapist, expressive arts therapist and pioneer in the field of nutrition psychology.  With over 20 years of experience serving in clinical positions in hospitals, mental health agencies, crisis centers and as an alternative health care practitioner, she brings a diversified background to the practice of behavioral and integrative medicine.  Ms. Coulston is well known for her work in the treatment field of eating disorders and weight management, and for her expertise in both childhood and adult trauma, as well as the field of addictionology. 

Deborah Coulston holds a Master of Arts degree in Expressive Therapy from Lesley Graduate School, nationally renowned for its innovative programs in expressive arts psychotherapy and clinical counseling psychology as well as holistic psychology.  Ms. Coulston has achieved proficiency in psychodrama, art, music, dance, movement and play therapies.  In addition she holds a Master of Arts degree  in Theological Studies from Episcopal Divinity School with special competencies in Pastoral Counseling and Women’s Studies.

Ms. Coulston has also completed intensive professional training in the clinical application of mindfulness-based meditation and stress reduction techniques at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine.  She has completed extensive training in Women’s Psychology at Harvard University Graduate School of Education and received her post-graduate certification in Marital and Family Therapy form Temple University.  In addition, she is currently a Diplomat Candidate in Addictionology.
  
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Psychotherapy, Marital & Family Therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapy each offer a unique way to explore. . .
   
■  Relationships
■  Family Dynamics
■  Major Life Transitions
■  Spirituality
■  Employment and Academic Concerns
■  Personal and Professional Growth

To help adults, children and families
effectively cope with . . .
     
■  Anxiety
■  Depression
■  Acute and Chronic Stress
■  Physical Illness
■  Loss and Grief
■  Eating Disorders
■  Substance Abuse/Addictions
■  Obsessive/Compulsive Disorders
■  Feelings of fear, shame, guilt and isolation

To discover new paths for creating and enhancing. . . .
   
■  Self Esteem
■  Trust
■  Intimacy
■  Creative Expression
■  Spiritual Growth
■  Recovery from Addictions
■  Physical Health/Well Being
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Expressive Arts Therapy
   
This emerging field integrates experiential and creative learning with applied clinical psychological practice.  Expressive therapists integrate dance, movement, drama, literature, poetry, music, visual arts and play therapies with the practice of psychology and psychotherapy.  The arts can provide containers for powerful emotions, serving as a bridge between ourselves and others.  Both adults and children benefit form expressive therapies regardless of age, mobility, or artistic talent/or experience.


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Nutritional Psychology
   
This emerging field links biochemistry, environment, emotions and addictions, recognizing the interconnectedness and impact of each on the other, and offers an innovative and successful approach to the treatment of addictions, mood disorders, and food/weight problems.  Since 75-90 % of addicts of all kinds are unable to sustain recovery or abstinence through traditional treatment programs, nutritional psychology along with integrative and functional medicine offers hope and intervention where there had been little.  Deborah Coulston has extensive experience treating food and mood related disorders and addictions, integrating nutrient therapies, whole food plans, and alternative and behavioral medicine modalities along with conventional counseling and education.
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Recovery From Eating Disorders
  
Ms Coulston is recognized for her extensive experience in the treatment of eating disorders, assisting numerous individuals to achieve freedom from compulsive eating/dieting disorders.  In her private practice, workshops and unique coaching programs, she offers an alternative to chronic dieting and compulsive eating along with customized recovery programs for overcoming obesity, food, weight and dieting obsessions.  Reclaiming Our Whole Selves: A Daily Program for Healing from Eating Disorders, along with  Nourishing Body and Soul and the Freedom Coaching Program, each offer a multi-faceted approach to eating and dieting disorders.
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Marital and Family Therapy
   
Deborah Coulston brings a dynamic counseling style to the therapy process coaching both couples and families toward healthier relationships.  Couples and family counseling is appropriate for those in crisis as well as for those simply seeking to improve the quality of their relationships.  While couple’s and families are faced, with at times, overwhelming challenges, the family remains the primary source of support, esteem and nurturance throughout the developmental stages of life.  Family therapy can help to address these challenges and crises and foster positive interaction among members.  In addition, individual counseling is often greatly enhanced by including family members in the process of change. Marital and family therapy can help provide support, teach specific communication/ or parenting skills and help each individual to feel nurtured and valued within their most important relationships.
   
                             
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Stress Reduction Training
  
The acclaimed science of mind-body medicine is highly successful in decreasing both physical and psychological symptoms associated with many acute and chronic conditions.  A wide variety of medical patients can benefit from stress reduction training including those seeking adjunct therapies for heart disease, weight management, cancer, anxiety/panic disorders, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, HIV/AIDS, addictions and many others.  Ms. Coulston has successfully adapted her training to meet the diverse needs of both individuals and groups, whether they are seeking reduced stress in daily living, enhanced productivity in the work place, or are coping with chronic pain or major debilitating conditions.
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Wellness & Life Coaching

Wellness and Life coaching is a dynamic way to vision and realize your goals and heart’s desires.  In a supportive and positively challenging environment Deborah Coulston will assist you in creating and sustaining life and wellness goals that provide meaning and balance to your life and enhance your well-being.  As an enthusiastic and passionate coach she will encourage you to create the life of your dreams, listening carefully and providing empathy, validation, feedback, strategies, tools guidance and a plan.  Wellness and Life Coaching assists with helping you to identify what you want to change, provides skills to facilitate the change, and helps you to stay focused throughout the process with accountability and partnering.  Solution focused and creative strategies, along with support and encouragement provide the foundation for permanent life changes.
 

 Trauma and Recovery
   
Ms. Coulston has devoted much of her professional life to working with survivors of both childhood  and adult physical, emotional and sexual trauma.  She has completed major research in trauma theory and relational psychology at Harvard University and created numerous intervention and prevention programs in this emerging field.  Ms.Coulston’s work with adult survivors of trauma is extensive and combines a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to healing from abuse issues.  Her workshops and support groups, From Trauma to Transformation offer a safe, nurturing and creative opportunity for transforming body, mind and spirit.
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Pastoral Counseling
   
For individuals wishing to incorporate their spiritual/or religious practice or faith tradition within the context of the counseling experience, and for those who seek to develop a spiritual foundation as part of their recovery process, pastoral counseling provides a safe and supportive environment for individual, couples or family therapy.
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Addictions and Compulsive Disorders
   
Addiction is a multi-factorial disease with psychosocial, genetic, biological, behavioral, spiritual and metabolic components.  The most significant mechanism of this disease process is manifest through the neurophysiological insult on the Reward Deficiency Syndrome within the brain.  The medical model or disease concept of addiction establishes the Brain Reward Cascade as the hallmark of compulsive disorders as well as the five addictions: Chemical, Food, Work, Sex and Gambling.  Simply put, addictions result in a devastating phenomenon in the brain wrecking havoc on minds, bodies and spirits, and more often than not shattering individuals and whole families. To meet this overwhelming challenge, Deborah Coulston and The family Wellness Center offer primary and adjunct intervention, treatment and management of  addictions and compulsive disorders through a variety of unique programs including nutritional and neutriceutical therapies, auriculotherapy, individual and group counseling, addictions counseling, family therapy, and integrative and behavioral medicine.
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