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.

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.

Grief is how love is transformed. Therapy offers space for that transformation: to let grief do its quiet work of turnin...
10/11/2025

Grief is how love is transformed.
Therapy offers space for that transformation: to let grief do its quiet work of turning pain into presence and absence into meaning.

This is what happens in therapy at its best. Not fixing, not rushing to solutions, but truly staying present with someon...
10/11/2025

This is what happens in therapy at its best. Not fixing, not rushing to solutions, but truly staying present with someone's pain.

When a couple finally stops defending and actually hears each other's hurt underneath the words. When someone speaks about trauma they've carried alone for years and isn't met with "have you tried...?" but with steady presence. When grief is witnessed rather than hurried past.

Neurobiologically, when we're seen in our struggle without judgment or rescue, our nervous system can finally metabolize what felt overwhelming. We move from survival mode to a place where real change becomes possible.

But here's what's profound: this doesn't just heal individuals. When one person experiences being truly witnessed, they become capable of witnessing others. The transformation moves outward—into families, relationships, communities.

This is the quiet power of therapeutic work. In a world that fragments and rushes past pain, we create space for people to be fully seen. That's not small work.

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose work explored the full range of human experience. This poem c...
10/09/2025

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose work explored the full range of human experience. This poem captures what we now understand neurobiologically: you can’t selectively numb emotions. When you exile parts of yourself, they don’t disappear—they operate from the shadows with more intensity.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based therapeutic modality that recognizes our psyche as naturally multiple—made up of different “parts,” each with its own perspective, feelings, and role. When we try to suppress certain parts (the anxious protector, the inner critic, the shutdown exile), we create internal conflict and rigidity.

In IFS therapy, we help clients access what’s called “Self”—a state of curiosity, compassion, and calm—from which they can turn toward their parts rather than away. Instead of “I am anxious,” it becomes “a part of me feels anxious.” This differentiation creates space to understand what each part is trying to protect you from and what it needs.

In therapy, this looks like slowing down when a protective part gets activated and getting curious: How old does this part feel? What is it afraid will happen if it stops doing its job? What does it want you to know? When parts are witnessed and unburdened of extreme roles, they naturally soften. The critical voice becomes discernment. The anxious protector becomes healthy caution. This is Rumi’s wisdom applied: welcoming what shows up creates the conditions for transformation.

People who’ve mastered performance sometimes struggle with presence. The very habits that drive success—focus, control, ...
10/07/2025

People who’ve mastered performance sometimes struggle with presence. The very habits that drive success—focus, control, constant motion—can quietly erode connection.

In couples work, we see this often: relationships become managed rather than lived. The same precision that helps you excel at work can make it hard to be spontaneous, vulnerable, or at ease.

Empirically supported approaches like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) help people slow down, notice emotional cues, and connect differently—with themselves and with those they love.

Therapy helps you bring the same intention you give your work into your relationships—not to perfect them, but to be more real in them. When you can show up as your whole self, success starts to feel different—and more like home.

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.