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Philip A. Bower
Therapy for adults who are tired of holding it all alone.
Therapy for adults who are tired of holding it all alone.
Warm, collaborative telehealth therapy with Philip A. Bower, LICSW for adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, trauma, identity stress, life transitions, relationship stress, and emotional overwhelm.
Serving clients located in Massachusetts, Maine, and Washington.
Warm, collaborative telehealth therapy with Philip A. Bower, LICSW for adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, trauma, identity stress, life transitions, relationship stress, and emotional overwhelm.
Serving clients located in Massachusetts, Maine, and Washington.
You do not have to know exactly what to say.
You do not have to know exactly what to say.
Many people begin therapy with a feeling more than a sentence: I’m tired. I’m stuck. I keep holding everything together. I don’t know how much longer I can keep doing it this way.
That is enough of a beginning.
Therapy with me is a place to slow down, listen more closely to what has been happening inside you, and begin finding a steadier way to live with what you carry.
Therapy can support symptom relief, but it can also become a place to understand yourself more deeply and move toward a life that feels more honest, self-defined, and sustainable.
Therapy can support symptom relief, but it can also become a place to understand yourself more deeply and move toward a life that feels more honest, self-defined, and sustainable.
Therapy with me is collaborative, relational, and paced with care.
I do not see people as problems to be fixed. I see therapy as a relationship where we can make room for your history, your grief, your identity, your nervous system, your patterns, your hopes, and the parts of you that may have gone quiet while you were trying to survive.
Our work may include practical coping skills, emotional processing, grief work, identity exploration, nervous system regulation, and honest reflection. We begin with where you are.
Anxiety, depression, stress, and emotional overwhelm
Grief, loss, and major life transitions
Trauma history and nervous system dysregulation
Self-worth concerns, burnout, and the exhaustion of overfunctioning
LGBTQIA+ identity, relationships, belonging, and safety
Men’s emotional health, vulnerability, grief, and growth
Veteran experiences, first responder stress, and complex life histories
The feeling of living inside roles that no longer fit
My work is clinically grounded and deeply human.
I draw from ACT, CBT, DBT-informed skills, mindfulness, self-compassion, polyvagal-informed techniques, and trauma-responsive care.
In everyday language, that means we may work with thoughts, emotions, coping patterns, values, relationships, grief, identity, and the body’s stress responses. Therapy is not about becoming someone else. It is often about becoming more able to live as yourself.
If something here feels familiar, you are welcome to reach out.
We can begin with a simple conversation about what you are looking for, what feels hard right now, and whether working together feels like a good fit.
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