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Allie & Ellison are now accepting new clients! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/3bbe49c6-785a-452d-ba0b-12389e9ad677/Capybara+Counseling+Allie+Nerderman+Ellison+Rugg+Therapy+1.jpg Home - What brings prospective clients to Capybara: Major Life Transitions Grief and Loss Career, Work, and Education Changes Empty Nesting and Retirement Break Up, Divorce, or Marriage Significant Financial or Medical/Health Changes LGBTQIA+ Mental Health and Wellness Authenticity work Unpacking guilt and shame Processing religious trauma GAMC assessments and letters Relational counseling for polyamorous partners Kink-informed treatment Self-Worth and Self-Compassion Development Neurodiverse, Multicultural, and Intersectional Therapy Anxiety Management Mood Regulation Trauma-Informed Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/cbb7795a-95cf-4341-9945-de037c9893f9/GettyImages-1250293656.jpg Home - Elephant in the Room: Why “Capybara” Counseling? Capybaras are known for their kindness, gentleness, adaptability, and of course their greatest strength: spending quality time with any and every other species of animal. That’s our whole vibe - we see the strengths in everyone we meet and are non-judgmentally present with each of our clients. We show up to all of our sessions with unconditional acceptance of who they are now and who they want to become. If you work with either of us, we will prioritize ensuring you feel supported, cherished, and valued. You don’t need to carry your emotional weight alone - allow us to be by your side as you navigate your tough transitions. To learn more about Allie’s counseling approach, click here. To learn more about Ellison’s counseling approach, click here. https://www.capycounseling.com/individual daily 0.75 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/8ae219aa-7dc6-4ec0-b0cb-00c94e261232/Allie_Fridstein_Mental_Health_Counselor_Columbus_Ohio_In_Person_Therapy_2.JPG Individual Counseling Allie’s in-person sessions are held in my office in Dublin, Ohio. Ellison’s walk-and-talk sessions are held in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/b1e7bb9e-9c33-4fc2-9d5b-af67eb3e1bae/Telehealth+Pic.jpg Individual Counseling - Telehealth sessions can be held from any confidential space in Ohio or Massachusetts! It can be hard to make time in the work day to drive to a counseling office. Telehealth is an awesome option available to anyone who would like to receive counseling from the comfort of their home. Please note: Since Allie am a licensed counselor in the state of Ohio, she is only able to provide services to residents of Ohio; that said, you can live anywhere in the state. Respectively, Ellison is a licensed counselor in the state of Massachusetts and they are only able to provide services to residents of Massachusetts; that said, you can live anywhere in the state. https://www.capycounseling.com/trainings-and-courses daily 0.75 2024-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/060f3b22-95a7-47c5-8864-3bc91fae3274/Screen+Shot+2023-06-02+at+3.58.23+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/d7a9898d-35e5-4443-a39c-980e22cdd654/WH%2BWebsite%2BLogo.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/f911ee3d-e455-4e87-abc8-98267cd07e14/v5ajtGH6_400x400.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/42147549-e1f5-48a9-96ee-18dd8a4d4a94/download.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/ea6bd5af-c5fc-45df-96c2-d1a68941402e/Allie_Fridstein_Mental_Health_First_Aid_Community_Training.jpg Trainings & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/b4c071a5-cf3e-4c04-86a7-af220f3abc38/Allie_Fridstein_LGBTQIA_Allyship_Community_Training_CJ_Morefield.jpg Trainings & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1668485197832-ESH0F0YJXDNY4JQOU77Y/MHFA%2BTraining%2BItinerary.jpg Trainings & Courses Mental Health First Aid Training Itinerary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/82dc306e-c61c-4a32-a38e-7f15c371e108/Screen+Shot+2022-10-25+at+7.06.28+PM.png Trainings & Courses LGBTQIA+ Allyship Training Itinerary https://www.capycounseling.com/meet-allie daily 0.75 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/7e9a1ea5-1905-4139-af5a-6eba212a783e/Capybara+Counseling+Allie+Nerderman+Ohio+Therapy+Counseling+2.jpg https://www.capycounseling.com/support-group-gaza daily 0.75 2024-07-11 https://www.capycounseling.com/contact-allie daily 0.75 2024-09-19 https://www.capycounseling.com/allie-approach-to-counseling daily 0.75 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/5dc939e4-75d2-4211-928e-2ca938153e61/Capybara+Counseling+Allie+Nerderman+Ohio+Therapy+Counseling+3.jpg Approach to Counseling Change is hard! We as humans tend to feel comfort in predictability and routine, and change (especially when sudden and unexpected) inherently challenges us to sit with discomfort. Finding meaning in those changes while learning skills to manage the added stress is an empowering, healing, and worthwhile endeavor. So what’s my approach to counseling? I am an eclectic clinician whose work with clients going through major life transitions is rooted in a hybrid of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, and Existential Therapy. Cool…what does “a hybrid of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, and Existential Therapy” even mean? I mean I totally know what it means, but explain it to everyone else just in case THEY don’t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1649094707933-BQV2I05RUPKWE5KXS5QT/unsplash-image-2EmW_HIy6Ns.jpg Approach to Counseling This means three important things for you: Cognitive Behavioral: I use well-researched therapeutic techniques to identify connections between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. As we non-judgmentally explore certain patterns, we can challenge negative biases, develop realistic and empowering senses of self-worth, and act accordingly. Humanistic: My therapeutic approach is person-centered and non-pathologizing, aka not focused on the diagnosis but rather on collaboratively problem-solving the challenges life throws at you. We’ll explore the ways we can utilize your strengths and abilities to navigate problem-solving your presenting concerns instead of trying to “fix” who you are. You are not “broken” for having an adverse reaction to change. Nurturing a sense of self-compassion is a vital part of growth, recovery, and healing in this space. Existential: Suffering, like any emotion, is an inevitable part of the human experience and something all of us have in common. We can validate our experiences, make meaning of our pain, and also choose how to move forward. We have more power than we realize, even when certain pieces are out of our control, and it is worth tapping into that power. As Holocaust survivor and the father of existential therapy Viktor Frankl said, “When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/f8a48d02-fc43-4266-8e8c-34ce24fe7241/Capybara+Counseling+Comic+ArtbyMoga+Allie+Fridstein.JPG Approach to Counseling - Pursuit of Happiness If you are ready to face your hardships and make progress towards your mental health goals, you are right where you belong. Achieve your mental health goals here at Capybara Counseling. (Comic created in collaboration with Meg Adams, aka Artbymoga) https://www.capycounseling.com/services-overview daily 0.75 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/a48ecc15-3312-4dfc-b91b-3c19b5906f51/unsplash-image-xt-8Bj1lR2Y.jpg Services Overview - Individual Counseling As an individual client, you can schedule 55-minute or 85-minute counseling sessions. Sessions can be done in-person or virtually and can be scheduled at any frequency that fits your needs. Click here for more information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/02365303-f161-4c2b-a547-af13d99b8cfe/unsplash-image-Qa389trXHuo.jpg Services Overview - Relationship & Family Counseling with Ellison If you are a Massachusetts resident seeking relationship or family counseling, you can schedule 85-minute virtual counseling sessions. This includes nontraditional relationship and family structures such as polycules, queerplatonic partnerships, and blended families. Sessions can be scheduled at any frequency that fits your needs. Click here for more information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1719677031700-TTA81DLW0W4JX8X84W8Y/image-asset.jpeg Services Overview - Support Group: Grief for Gaza with Allie We grieve together, we retain our shared humanity together. This free support group processes the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Via Zoom on Tuesdays from 8-9pm EST (5-6pm PST). All of our emotions belong - rage, despair, loneliness, frustration, exhaustion, disappointment, worry, guilt, helplessness, regret, hope. We don't need to carry this burden alone, we're in this together. All adults welcome. Click here for more information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/30f5dc79-0edb-4825-b54a-9283c1b0ad64/unsplash-image-5US9_Gep0qY.jpg Services Overview - Community Trainings These are live interactive psycho-education lessons designed to increase your understanding of how to support loved ones who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or struggling with their mental health. Mental Health First Aid Trainings and LGBTQIA+ Allyship Trainings are held virtually on a rotating monthly schedule. Both trainings are available anyone 14+ in the United States. All are welcome, you do not need to be a client in order to attend. Click here for more information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/8b5f8492-78ff-46b6-a998-a3d48e65d5d1/unsplash-image-pXmbsF70ulM.jpg Services Overview - Gender Affirming Medical Care Assessments Allie and Ellison are both trained and certified to assess readiness and appropriateness for gender affirming medical care and have written many letters of recommendation for trans and nonbinary clients to receive HRT and surgeries. As we are committed to being one less barrier to the care you deserve, we offer these consultations free of charge. Allie provides assessments to adults in Ohio and Ellison provides assessments to adults and teens (with parental consent) in Massachusetts. Click here for more information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/4f5ba8c5-1b4c-489f-8e38-59c5d22cf9a4/Allie_Fridstein_Mental_Health_Counselor_Columbus_Ohio_Telehealth.jpg Services Overview Telehealth sessions can be held from any confidential space in Ohio and Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/80dc4c4a-321a-4848-a957-281b917215fc/Capybara+Counseling+Allie+Nerderman+Ellison+Rugg+Therapy+Ohio+Massachusetts.jpg Services Overview Allie’s in-person sessions are held in Dublin, Ohio. Ellison meets with clients for walk-and-talk sessions in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. https://www.capycounseling.com/faq daily 0.75 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/01af6681-72c2-49c7-a4b3-91ca1bd49a66/Capybara+Counseling+Allie+Nerderman+Ellison+Rugg+Therapy+Ohio+Massachusetts.jpg FAQ - General FAQs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/46fb7b0e-4526-47a7-8c51-348052e1e2e5/Capybara+Counseling+Allie+Nerderman+Ohio+Therapy+Counseling+1.jpg FAQ - Allie-Specific FAQs (Ohio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1720035222564-6NHJ5TH5FC3B0GLZU4QN/Capybara%2BCounseling%2BEllison%2BRugg%2BLMHC%2BMassachusetts%2BTherapy%2BCounseling%2B2.jpg FAQ - Ellison-Specific FAQs (Massachusetts) https://www.capycounseling.com/gender-affirming daily 0.75 2024-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/c3316eed-4e33-4253-8912-ac9ec1d6d84c/Screen+Shot+2024-06-29+at+11.21.03+AM.png Gender Affirming Care We are trained and certified to assess readiness and appropriateness for gender affirming medical care and have written many letters of recommendation for trans clients to receive HRT and surgeries utilizing the official Standards of Care for the Treatment of Transgendered Individuals as written by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. https://www.capycounseling.com/meet-ellison daily 0.75 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/0d3d5cbc-ef42-4948-a30d-95c3ea98bb6b/Capybara+Counseling+Ellison+Rugg+LMHC+Massachusetts+Therapy+Counseling+2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1719961290815-W75I7TPIK5U19O6524NT/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1719961230122-UQ5CXI170DYX9DVX44D0/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1721911729744-WUUX76W3UQD6LO08QZNM/unsplash-image-QN6NkYi3CKs.jpg https://www.capycounseling.com/contact-ellison daily 0.75 2024-08-06 https://www.capycounseling.com/ellison-approach-to-counseling daily 0.75 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/4720d951-b202-47f0-806a-82ccaa92666c/Capybara+Counseling+Ellison+Rugg+LMHC+Massachusetts+Therapy+Counseling+1.jpg Approach to Counseling So how do I approach therapy? I am first and foremost an existential therapist who integrates a variety of treatment models and techniques into a fundamental belief that both suffering and healing are core parts of a universal human experience. My work centers around making meaning of and understanding that experience in ways that allow you to expand into your most authentic and empowered self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1649094707933-BQV2I05RUPKWE5KXS5QT/unsplash-image-2EmW_HIy6Ns.jpg Approach to Counseling - At its core, my approach is: Existential Suffering, like any emotion, is an inevitable part of the human experience and something all of us have in common. We can validate our experiences, make meaning of our pain, and also choose how to move forward. We have more power than we realize, even when certain pieces are out of our control, and it is worth tapping into that power. As Holocaust survivor and the father of existential therapy Viktor Frankl said, “When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1721915253888-K34K0Z2WKGZ7MFX9DOWH/unsplash-image-LluELtL5mK4.jpg Approach to Counseling Affirming I have a deep admiration for the wide spectrum of humanity and want to celebrate diversity in every sense of the word. My goal in therapy is not to help people become “better” according to a narrow definition set by a single cultural group (or diagnostic manual). My goal is to first understand what makes you who you are and who you want to be, and then break down the barriers that keep you from fully expressing that self in the world. I hope to support you in adapting to and living in a world that wasn't made for you--and discovering and creating spaces that are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/f8a48d02-fc43-4266-8e8c-34ce24fe7241/Capybara+Counseling+Comic+ArtbyMoga+Allie+Fridstein.JPG Approach to Counseling - We’re One Big Capy Family If you are ready to face your hardships and make progress towards your mental health goals, you are right where you belong. Achieve your mental health goals here at Capybara Counseling. (Comic created in collaboration with Meg Adams, aka Artbymoga) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1721914784680-CII2C7O7ZGX678SFYAKP/unsplash-image-TIq6pg_rh3w.jpg Approach to Counseling Intersectional While it is great to be able to make meaning of and accept anything life throws at us, the reality is that the world is not designed with the vast majority of us in mind. https://www.capycounseling.com/individual-1 daily 0.75 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/e19082bb-7fbb-449d-9455-68f23716a65d/image-asset.jpg Relationship Counseling Authenticity and self-development is not limited to the individual—much of our growth and healing happens in the context of relationships. Family counseling and relationship counseling are not just for people who are having difficulties, but for those who want to deepen their relationships with each other, work through shared challenges, or grow through the changes in life together. Families, polycules, couples, queerplatonic partnerships, and any form of partnership may benefit from joint therapy, especially when experiencing change, such as: Cohabitating for the first time Processing shared loss or grief Changes to employment or financial resources Coming out to family members or community Seeking to embrace their relationships more fully Navigating systemic oppression together Working to define or maintain boundaries Planning to adopt or have children Exploring kink dynamics within a partnership Accommodating and adapting to a member’s illness, disability, or neurodivergence Opening a relationship to nonmonogamy Seeking to break generational cycles and create new ways of existing in relation to one another Any group of people who wants to learn more about their interpersonal patterns and grow into new ways of being in relationship to each other I take a client-centered approach to help clients use their collective strengths to overcome challenges and accomplish their goals. To learn more specifics about my approach to counseling, click here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624275c910806206bc7f2909/1720037727968-MG6D5KZFXNHYYXOV49FJ/image-asset.jpeg Relationship Counseling Telehealth sessions are held via zoom for couples, polycules, and families anywhere in Massachusetts. All parties must be in the state of Massachusetts at the time of each session.