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Collaborative Insight Counseling Associates

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Collaborative Insight Counseling Associates

Culturally sensitive mental health services in the heart of Boston, MA

10/31/2025

Meet Rutuja Zawar, MS (she/her) 💛

Rutuja creates a safe, welcoming space where clients can explore emotions, release shame, and reconnect with their strengths. Her relational, goal-oriented style blends mindfulness, interactive skill-building, and compassionate dialogue to support healing, growth, and deeper self-understanding.

As a South Asian therapist and immigrant, Rutuja is passionate about working with multicultural communities, women of color, and anyone navigating identity, anxiety, or life transitions. She believes every person deserves to feel seen, heard, and fully accepted.

Outside of work, Rutuja enjoys dancing, cooking, and discovering cozy Boston coffee shops, always with an iced latte in hand!

10/28/2025

You don’t need a major life event to begin therapy. 💛

Therapy isn’t only for crisis moments, it’s also for staying grounded, learning new tools, and caring for your emotional health year-round.

CICA offers individual and group therapy to meet you where you are and help you grow at your own pace.

10/21/2025

Life can throw unexpected challenges our way. Building emotional resilience doesn’t mean facing everything alone, it means learning to navigate stress, process emotions, and seek support when needed.

At CICA, we’re here to help you strengthen your resilience and find balance in everyday life.

10/17/2025

Anxiety can show up in many ways such as racing thoughts, restlessness, or tension.

Our clinicians work with you to understand these feelings and build strategies for relief, one step at a time. 💚

You don’t have to manage it alone.

10/14/2025

As the seasons change, it’s normal to feel shifts in mood, energy, or routine. 🍃💚

Therapy at CICA can be a grounding space to navigate these transitions offering tools to stay balanced and connected as life moves forward.

10/10/2025

Today is World Mental Health Day. 💛

At CICA, our clinicians provide compassionate, culturally responsive care to help you prioritize your mental well-being today and every day.

Your mental health matters, and support is always here when you’re ready.

10/06/2025

Mental Illness Awareness Week reminds us that mental health is health. 💚

At CICA, we create a safe, supportive space for healing whether you’re beginning therapy for the first time or continuing your journey.

You deserve care that honors your whole self.

10/01/2025

Meet Grace Lincoln, LCSW (she/her) 💛
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Grace believes every person is capable of growth and deserves to love themselves. Her therapy style creates a calm, collaborative space where clients can explore identity, navigate life transitions, and strengthen relationships.

Grace specializes in trauma-informed care and works with individuals and couples—including multicultural, neurodiverse, and LGBTQIA+ communities—to help them build inner strength and authentic connections. Her approach blends psychodynamic, emotion-focused, and strengths-based therapies to support healing and meaningful change. 🌿

Outside the therapy room, Grace loves to paint, crochet, and pause to appreciate life’s small joys—like stopping to smell the flowers.

09/24/2025

As seasons shift, take time to check in with yourself. 🍃 What practices help you feel grounded and supported? Whether it’s journaling, therapy, spending time in nature, connecting with loved ones, or simply resting, your well-being deserves attention.

Self-care isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessary part of maintaining balance and emotional health. Listen to your needs, honor your boundaries, and give yourself permission to prioritize your mental and emotional wellness. 💛

09/19/2025

Meet Virginia!

Virginia Anderson, MSW (she/her/hers), joins CICA as a pre-licensed psychotherapist in September 2025. With curiosity, compassion, and a client-centered approach, Virginia creates a non-judgmental and empathic space where clients can explore challenges, aspirations, and everything in between.

Her practice is rooted in attachment and psychodynamic therapies, while remaining flexible to meet each client’s unique needs. Virginia’s lived experience as a Black pans*xual woman with experience in s*x work and non-monogamy deeply informs her work, helping her support BIPOC, LGBTQ+/TGNC, neurodivergent, polyamorous, kinky, and alternative lifestyle communities. She specializes in anxiety, complex trauma/PTSD, s*xuality and s*xual exploration, grief, and relationships.

“Therapy is here to create space to understand, honor and grow into all that you are. In our work together, you are invited to come as you are and my role is to walk alongside you as you discover what healing looks like for you.” — Virginia Anderson

Outside the therapy room, Virginia enjoys cheating at board games, feeding her friends, and napping in their beds!

09/16/2025

EMDR therapy helps individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences. By addressing how memories are stored in the brain, EMDR can reduce distress and support long-term recovery. 💚

At CICA, our clinicians are specially trained in EMDR and provide a safe, supportive environment to guide you through the healing process. You don’t have to carry the weight of trauma alone, healing is possible.

If you’re interested in trying EMDR therapy, reach out to us! We’d be honored to help you find the therapist who’s the right fit for you.

09/12/2025

Meet Vion!

Vion He, M. Phil. Ed., MS Ed. (she/her/hers), joins CICA as a pre-licensed psychotherapist. With a warm, collaborative, and authentic approach, Vion supports clients navigating anxiety & depression, gender/s*xuality/LGBTQ+ issues, and life transitions.

Having moved to the U.S. from Fujian, China at 17, Vion brings deep lived and professional experience to her work centering care around cultural identity, generational transitions, and the unique stories of Asian-American communities, emerging adults, LGBTQIA+ folks, and international students. Her practice is grounded in multicultural, feminist, and collaborative frameworks that honor the whole person.

Vion draws from CBT, DBT, Relational-Cultural Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and creative tools like writing, art, and play to help clients feel seen, supported, and empowered.

Outside the therapy room, Vion enjoys creative writing, collage, and collecting beautiful mugs—though she somehow always ends up using the same one!

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175 Federal Street
Boston, MA
02110

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	8am - 8pm

Telephone

+16173363246

Website

https://www.cic.associates/

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