Balance and growth through therapy and the arts
Trudy is a licensed and board certified therapist. The focus of her work is with school aged students through adults and their families.
It is her goal to guide clients to:
Manage anxiety and depression
Improve their flexibility in thinking
Increase perspective taking
Find their own voice in articulating who they are becoming
Move through the grief process of trauma or end of life
For some, this is learning more nuanced social pragmatics and self regulation skills, while others focus on self care, healing and advocacy. Trudy works collaboratively with adults, parents, schools and other mental health providers. She also provides supervision to novice therapists.
Biography
Trudy Shulman Fagen, LMHC, ACMT-BC is a licensed mental health counselor and nationally board certified music therapist of advanced standing. She is trained in EMDR, Behavioral style hypnosis, CBT, DBT, Guided Imagery, arts therapies, telemedicine and traditional talk therapies, and certified in grief counseling for human loss and the loss of pets. Throughout her career Trudy has worked with every age group from neonates through the elderly. For nearly four decades she has been working in hospitals, schools, universities and mental health centers employing a unique blend of traditional psychotherapy practices and arts therapies to help guide people through life’s challenges. She has specialized in working with people struggling with anxiety disorders, medical illness, sleep disorders, depression, medical trauma, bereavement and victims of violence. She additionally has been a graduate level teacher and supervisor to trainees and early career therapists. Some of her most valued work has been at positions through McLean Hospital, Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Community Mental Health Center of Englewood, and Lesley University. She has been the Director of School Counseling for grades 4 through 8 at the Solomon Schechter School of Boston, and has maintained a private counseling practice for many years.