Dr. Renee Hoekstra, Psy.D.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Massachusetts.

I have received intensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)  in Seattle and I completed a Harvard DBT post-doctorate position here in Boston.

I have a private practice in Stoneham and Back Bay. You can find out more about me on my website: www.bostondbtgroups.com

My intention with this blog is to provide ways in which I see the world by taking the teachings and trainings of my education and giving something that comes from the heart. Some of this is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (when I got this training we were supposed to practice what we preach), so I wouldn’t give you anything here that is teaching for the sake of teaching- rather it is imparting something I believe in.

What I offer is a plethora of my own mindfulness, whether this is awareness of what is going on within the skin, interpersonal awareness, awareness of the universe at large, awareness through the senses- it doesn’t matter. What I give in mindfulness (that I don’t see in other mindfulness blogs) is mindfulness for the audience that would receive my services. The agenda is to provide variety, stillness, creativity, thoughtfulness, and hopefully beyond all a way of freedom from unnecessary suffering.

My commitment for the next year is to get my book “The emotion-phobic user’s guide to handling cartoon elephants” in print so that people will have the visual aid for handling out-of-control stampeding cartoon elephants. (A handy skill, if you ask me).