Ms. Marina Gonzalez-Ang, LMHC
(She/They)
Preferred Name: Marina
About Me
Marina is a supportive, experienced individual and family counselor dedicated to helping children and adults recognize, reduce, and manage anxiety. Marina works with Massachusetts & New Hampshire clients to retrain the brain to better understand our own anxious thoughts and emotions. Many think of counseling as an exercise in relaxation, and while that is certainly one benefit of working with Marina’s supportive and calming approach, it is also an exercise in hard work.
In working with Marina, you will begin to develop a better awareness of when anxiety is going to show up, how to break negative patterns when it does, and how to replace behaviors that add to one’s anxiety with behaviors that reduce it. You will learn how to befriend your nervous system!
Using EMDR and an array of practical strategies, tactics, tools, and techniques to draw from, Marina helps clients implement and maintain interventions that extend not just to the close of one’s last counseling session, but to one’s entire lifetime.
Education & Experience
- Licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts (10081) and New Hampshire (5507)
- M.A. in Counseling Psychology, Lesley University
- B.A., in Economics, University of Massachusetts
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) Therapist.
- Trained in Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE),
Yale Child Study Center
- Trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety, Beck Institute
- Trained in family therapy, Therapy Training Boston (Watertown, Mass.)
- Trained in yoga for anxiety and depression, Soulful Yoga Therapy (Salem, Mass.)
- Graduate certificate in trauma studies (counseling and psychology), Lesley University
Specialty Area
- Anxiety/Panic Attacks
- Family Issues
- Gender Identity
- Marriage/Relationship Issues
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
- Phobias
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Self-Harm
- Somatic Issues
- Stress Management
- Survivor's Guilt
- Traumatic Incident
Population Served
- Adolescents (13-17)
- Adults
- BIPOC
- Children (4-12)
- Families
- LGBTQ+
Language
- English
Insurance
- Aetna
- BlueCross BlueShield
- UnitedHealth
Harvard Pilgrim and TUFTS.