1A Wellness

1A Wellness Key modalities include IFS, Psychodynamic, CBT, EFT & EMDR.

1A Wellness is a psychotherapy practice in MA comprised of highly-skilled, caring therapists who specialize in evidence-based therapies and assessement for couples, adults and teens.

We learn math, music, and how to parallel park—but no one teaches us how to listen without defending, repair after hurt,...
11/07/2025

We learn math, music, and how to parallel park—but no one teaches us how to listen without defending, repair after hurt, or stay curious when we feel misunderstood.
Yet we expect to know how to love—both as partners and as parents—without ever being taught.
At 1A Wellness, we believe love is a skill we can all keep learning.
And like any worthwhile skill, it gets stronger with practice.

Feeling lost or desperate doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means your system is trying to reorganize toward healing.Therapy...
11/04/2025

Feeling lost or desperate doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means your system is trying to reorganize toward healing.
Therapy helps translate that chaos into meaning.
Through IFS, we meet the parts that feel too much.
Through EFT, we turn toward connection.
Through EMDR, we integrate what once overwhelmed us.
Wholeness isn’t achieved by avoiding pain, but by learning to include it.

In therapy, we know that strength isn’t built through perfection—it’s built through rupture and repair.  Whether between...
11/02/2025

In therapy, we know that strength isn’t built through perfection—it’s built through rupture and repair. Whether between partners, within families, or inside ourselves, every relationship includes moments of disconnection. What matters is not avoiding them, but how we find our way back.
That process—staying present, reflecting, repairing—is what develops psychological strength.
Our therapists draw on approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and EMDR to support that healing process.
Each of these models helps us understand how connection—both internal and external—restores safety and fosters resilience after pain.
Strength isn’t the absence of struggle.
It’s the capacity to return to wholeness, again and again.

What if nothing inside you needed to be exiled? In Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, healing begins when we turn to...
10/31/2025

What if nothing inside you needed to be exiled?

In Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, healing begins when we turn toward every part of ourselves with compassion. Even the parts that seem messy or ashamed are trying to protect us in some way. When they’re understood, they can relax—and we reconnect with the calm, steady center of who we are.

If you’re interested in learning more about IFS therapy contact us today at info@1awellness.com.

It missed: The relief when plans got cancelled.That tension in your shoulders during family calls.Why certain compliment...
10/24/2025

It missed: The relief when plans got cancelled.
That tension in your shoulders during family calls.
Why certain compliments make you uncomfortable.
The dream you keep having about the test.
When you stopped singing in the car.
Why success feels different than you imagined.

Good therapy notices what gets missed.

Sometimes we find ourselves at an edge—considering something vast and alive, knowing there’s more than what logic can pr...
10/22/2025

Sometimes we find ourselves at an edge—considering something vast and alive, knowing there’s more than what logic can provide.

Our therapists work with thinkers and doers who excel at solving problems but struggle with knowing and feeling their feelings. We teach practical skills like identifying emotions, tracking them in your body, and learning to validate your own experience.

Not everything needs analysis. Not everything needs a solution. Some things just need to be felt—and that’s harder than it sounds if you’ve spent your life excelling at logic and reason.

If this resonates, we can help.

Turning toward what’s painful isn’t negativity — it’s courage.It’s how we metabolize grief, transform fear, and stay hum...
10/20/2025

Turning toward what’s painful isn’t negativity — it’s courage.
It’s how we metabolize grief, transform fear, and stay human in times that test us.

Therapists see this every day: healing begins the moment someone stops running from what hurts and dares to meet it with presence.

Thank you to all the people quietly doing this work — in classrooms, businesses, hospitals, offices, and homes — turning toward difficulty with care and attention.

Relationships don’t scale. Self-awareness doesn’t. Emotional connection doesn’t.They take presence, vulnerability, and p...
10/19/2025

Relationships don’t scale. Self-awareness doesn’t. Emotional connection doesn’t.

They take presence, vulnerability, and practice—not automation.

At 1A Wellness, we help driven people strengthen emotional intelligence as intentionally as they cultivate the rest of their lives.

In Internal Family Systems (IFS), we don’t try to erase the parts of you that react, protect, or overwork. We get curiou...
10/18/2025

In Internal Family Systems (IFS), we don’t try to erase the parts of you that react, protect, or overwork. We get curious about them. Because when parts feel understood, they naturally relax—and your whole internal system upgrades. Therapy isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about helping all your parts work together, led by your calm, curious Self.

Decades of research —from Harvard’s Adult Development Study to work at Stanford—shows that supportive relationships pred...
10/16/2025

Decades of research —from Harvard’s Adult Development Study to work at Stanford—shows that supportive relationships predict happiness and health (significantly more than wealth or success does).

That includes your relationship with yourself.

At 1A Wellness, we use IFS, EFT, and Psychodynamic approaches to help people build relationships that are resilient, authentic, and alive.

You can love your partner and feel frustrated by them. You can be doing your best and know you need to do things differe...
10/14/2025

You can love your partner and feel frustrated by them.

You can be doing your best and know you need to do things differently.

You can accept where you are right now while working toward something else.

You can feel hopeless about the state of things and still choose to have courage.

In IFS, we learn that different parts of you can hold completely opposite views—one part wants connection, another part wants to protect you by shutting down.

Both are real. Both matter.

The work isn’t choosing one over the other. It’s learning to hold both with compassion.

This is what good therapy teaches: holding paradox.

Remember The Velveteen Rabbit?  The toy rabbit asks what it means to become Real. The Skin Horse tells him:  “Real isn’t...
10/12/2025

Remember The Velveteen Rabbit? The toy rabbit asks what it means to become Real. The Skin Horse tells him: “Real isn’t how you are made. It’s something that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time… then you become Real.”

We live in a culture obsessed with optimization. Track your habits. Maximize productivity. But in all that striving, it’s easy to forget that being human is beautiful and messy.

Good Mental health and good relationships are about being real, not perfect.

At 1A Wellness, we use IFS, EFT, and somatic approaches to help you access your true self, not an unreachable ideal.

Address

225 Main Street
Wenham, MA
01984

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

Telephone

+19783072010

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What Drives Us?

At 1A Wellness, we are driven to provide exceptional therapy so that clients can transform their lives. Our clinicians understand how to heal pain and how to help clients move forward so that they can make enduring changes and live fuller lives. We cannot change the past. But by investing in therapy, clients can reclaim their lives and change the future. This is our mission.