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Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD
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Michael Lipson

Psychologist, PhD

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5 Hillside Avenue, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Let's Connect (413) 296-8976
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We're only on Earth for a little while: too short a time to spend it indulging bad habits, ignoring our talents, suffering inadequate relationships. Personal Coaching has two main goals. First, it helps you to notice and release your fear, resentment, self-destructive sorrow -- the whole range of negative habits in thought, feeling and behavior. Second, it helps you to give your gifts to the world: your talents, your capacities, your joy. On every level, coaching enhances your relationships: with family, partner, co-workers and friends, with this amazing Earth, and with your own sense of yourself as fully alive.
My work is informed by systems thinking and by my psychodynamic training at City University of New York and long-term practice in meditation. I am not interested in pushing some particular viewpoint, however: I want to find what makes sense for you. I have moved from psychotherapy, which is re-imbursable by insurance, to Personal Coaching, which is not.
I have worked for 20 years in Great Barrington, MA, seeing clients of all ages. Before that, I served as Associate Clinical Professor at Columbia University's medical school. I wrote The Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life (2002) and Group Meditation (2011) both from SteinerBooks, as well as BE: An Alphabet of Astonishment (2023).
Call or Michael Lipson now for a free 15 minute consultation - (413) 296-8976

My Practice at a Glance

Available in-person

5 Hillside Avenue

Great Barrington, MA 01230

(413) 296-8976
I specialize in Relationship Issues, Depression and Anxiety 
$300 Per Session  
I see individuals, couples and families  
Let's Connect (413) 296-8976
Photo of Michael Lipson, PhD, Psychologist

My Practice at a Glance

Available in-person

5 Hillside Avenue

Great Barrington, MA 01230

(413) 296-8976
I specialize in Relationship Issues, Depression and Anxiety 
$300 Per Session  
I see individuals, couples and families  

Finances

Fees

  • Individual Sessions $300
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I only take new clients for Personal Coaching, not psychotherapy. This is more direct, prescriptive and shorter-term. Pay is out of pocket.
Call or for a free 15 minute consultation now - (413) 296-8976
Photo of Michael Lipson, PhD, Psychologist
Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD
"
I only take new clients for Personal Coaching, not psychotherapy. This is more direct, prescriptive and shorter-term. Pay is out of pocket.
Call or for a free 15 minute consultation now - (413) 296-8976
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Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD

Qualifications

  • Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Massachusetts / 7615 Michael Lipson
  • Attended City University of New York, Graduated 1991
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. or (413) 296-8976
Photo of Michael Lipson, PhD, Psychologist
Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD
Feel free to ask about qualifications and training experience. or (413) 296-8976
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Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD

Specialties and Expertise

Top Specialties

  • Relationship Issues
  • Depression
  • Anxiety

Expertise

  • Addiction
  • ADHD
  • Child
  • Chronic Pain
  • Couples
  • Dissociative Disorders (DID)
  • Divorce
  • Eating Disorders
  • Grief
  • Parenting
  • Personality Disorders
  • Spirituality
  • Substance Use
  • Trauma and PTSD
Do these issues align with your needs? or (413) 296-8976
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Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD
Do these issues align with your needs? or (413) 296-8976
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Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD

Client Focus

Participants

Individuals
Couples
Family

Participants

Individuals
Couples
Family

Treatment Approach

Types of Therapy

  • Existential
  • Family Systems
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Interpersonal
  • Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
  • Psychodynamic
  • Transpersonal
  • Zen/Anthroposophy
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. or (413) 296-8976
Photo of Michael Lipson, PhD, Psychologist
Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD
Ask about what different forms of therapy will be like. or (413) 296-8976
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Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD

Location

Primary Location

5 Hillside Avenue

Great Barrington, MA 01230

(413) 296-8976
Call for a free consultation now - (413) 296-8976
Photo of Michael Lipson, PhD, Psychologist
Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD
Call for a free consultation now - (413) 296-8976
Photo of Michael Lipson, PhD, Psychologist
Michael Lipson
Psychologist, PhD