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

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.

11/30/2025

Preparing a child for college is often described as their launch, but it reshapes the entire family system. It influences work, couples, daily routines, and parents’ sense of who they are.

At 1A Wellness, we help people navigate these inflection points with empirically validated approaches (EFT, IFS, and contemporary psychodynamic therapy).

11/29/2025

With neurodiverse couples, the issue usually isn’t what you’re saying—it’s what’s happening in your nervous systems before anyone opens their mouth.

We help you slow it down, see the pattern, and understand what each person actually needs to feel safe. Once you get that, the communication part gets so much easier.

If you’re a couple where one (or both) of you is neurodivergent, and traditional therapy hasn’t quite fit, we get it. This is what we do.

11/27/2025

Instead of turkey, we want to share a RAM with you today.

Each of our team meetings begins with a RAM—a Radical Moment of Appreciation. A different therapist shares each time what they’re grateful for in their work and in one form or another, it always comes back to the people we serve. It is a privilege to serve you and see what they are capable of.

11/24/2025

One question we hear often is “What exactly is Self?”

You’re in a hard conversation. You’re feeling everything—the anger, the hurt, the fear—but you’re not drowning in it. You’re still present. Still steady.

That’s Self-leadership.

And it’s not something you either have or don’t have. Connecting to Self is a skill that can be learned.

We help you get there.

11/23/2025

Becoming parents reshapes a relationship.
Years later, when children step into their own lives, it shifts again. That new quiet can carry both possibility and uncertainty.

At 1A Wellness, we use empirically validated approaches to support individuals and couples through these transitional seasons—helping them choose the form their relationships take next.

11/18/2025

Couples can feel tremendous pressure to match models of intimacy that were never designed for their brains, histories, or nervous systems. When those models don’t fit, many couples blame themselves, absorbing shame, or wondering if something is fundamentally “wrong.”

When neurodivergent partners begin to understand their wiring and see their differences with clarity instead of fear, everything shifts.

If you are interested in working with a therapist who specializes in neurodivergent couples, please contact us at info@1awellness.com

11/15/2025

Good therapy doesn’t teach us to suppress anger — it helps us understand it. Anger often arrives to protect something tender: a boundary crossed, a need ignored, a hurt left unspoken. When we can turn toward it with curiosity rather than fear, anger becomes less of a force to control and more of a guide toward what truly matters.

In effective therapy, anger is not the enemy but a doorway. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps us slow the storm, revealing the fear or longing beneath the reaction. Gottman-based approaches give language for repair, helping us replace defensiveness with accountability. And Internal Family Systems (IFS) invites us to meet the parts of ourselves that hold anger—understanding their intentions and helping them soften.

Through this process, what was once volatile becomes illuminating. We learn to recognize the messages our anger carries and to express those feelings in ways that deepen connection instead of eroding it. The goal isn’t to erase anger but to refine our relationship with it—so that it points us back, again and again, to what we value most.

11/14/2025

To our trans community members—clients, colleagues. We honor the parts of you that were never given room to exist, and the parts that had to go quiet in order to stay safe. At 1A Wellness, we are committed to building spaces where no one has to erase themselves to be welcomed.

11/12/2025

Understanding your neurotype clarifies how your brain processes information, manages attention, and responds to sensory and social experiences—often bringing relief after years of uncertainty. Without this understanding, many people spend years feeling inadequate or trying to “fix” aspects of themselves that are simply differences, not deficits.

The MIGDAS (Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing Autism Spectrum) is a conversational assessment that identifies autistic traits through dialogue about your experiences and natural patterns, rather than performance tasks. It can be especially effective for adults who have developed masking strategies.

Our Clinical Director, Dr. Carrie Potter, is MIGDAS-trained and has found it to be a deeply positive and validating process for clients exploring how their brain works. Whether or not autism is part of your profile, this process offers valuable insights into your unique cognitive and sensory patterns—helping you make informed choices about environments, relationships, and strategies that support your well-being.

If you suspect you experience the world differently, reach out to learn more about your neurotype at info@1awellness.com.

Also, see more information about the MIGDAS in our bio links.

11/11/2025

The longing for closeness is deeply human, but when we depend on our partner to complete us, the relationship often becomes burdened with unspoken expectations and repeated misunderstandings. Real intimacy begins when each partner takes responsibility for understanding and soothing their own emotional world—then brings that steadier self into connection.

Our couples work draws from three evidence-based approaches that help couples do just that. From Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we learn to slow down reactive cycles and identify the moments when fear or disconnection pull us apart. From the Gottman Method, we bring in practical tools—communication frameworks, repair strategies, and ways to build friendship and trust. And from Internal Family Systems (IFS), we help partners explore the inner parts that take over in conflict—the protector that shuts down, the critic that lashes out, or the wounded part that feels unseen.

When partners begin to recognize both the patterns between them and the parts within them, something shifts. The relationship becomes less about fixing each other and more about truly understanding one another. Connection deepens, empathy grows, and love begins to feel safer and more sustainable.

11/10/2025

In her latest blog, Dr. Brittany Sterling invites us to slow down and consider how we respond to pain—our own and others’. From stress-cleaning to chasing distraction (yes, even those infamous Labubus), she helps us see how avoiding emotions often deepens our suffering, and how allowing them to move through us can bring healing. Link to the full post is also in our bio.
Thanks to this piece, several of us at 1A Wellness finally learned what a Labubu is — and why it’s such a perfect metaphor for distraction.
Dr. Sterling currently has a few openings for new clients.
Reach out today to learn more at info@1awellness.com.

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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

Website

http://1awellness.com/

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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.