Julia Schechter, MSW, LICSW

Most of my clients are excellent at explaining themselves. In here, you don't have to.

I'm a Boston-based, bilingual (Spanish and English) LICSW with 16+ years of experience in trauma-informed care, mental health program development, and higher education. I work with high-achieving adults dealing with anxiety, professional burnout, alcohol and substance use, and treatment-resistant depression.

I don't believe healing comes from a technique performed on you from across the room. It comes from a real relationship, one where you can be uncertain or unimpressive, and I show up as a person too.

I learned to treat depression through trauma work, at the Cambridge Health Alliance Victims of Violence Program, led by Dr. Judith Herman. That's why I look at what's underneath when treatment stalls, including in my recent work with people receiving Ketamine and Esketamine for treatment-resistant depression.

My training and clinical work also includes the McLean Hospital OCD Institute and Klarman Center for Eating Disorders, the Brigham and Women's Outpatient Psychiatry Department, and the Cambridge Health Alliance Outpatient Addictions Service, led by Dr. Mark Albanese.

I'm part-time faculty at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and an adjunct instructor at the Simmons University School of Social Work, where I teach core social work courses and mentor MSW students. I'm licensed in Massachusetts and Utah, and I'm a clinical supervisor in Massachusetts.

No breaking point required. Write to me when you're ready, even if you're not sure what to say yet.