Dr. Elina Cymerman

About Dr. Elina Cymerman

Dr. Elina Cymerman is a clinical psychologist licensed in Massachusetts. In her busy Boston practice, she provides individual and couples therapy to clients with a range of mental health and life challenges. She has developed expertise in the treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma, and coping with loss. She has also helped many clients struggling with parenting difficulties, medical problems, disconnection in relationships, and caring for family members who are aging, ill, or dealing with addiction.

Relying on more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Cymerman has found that many clients benefit from a two-pronged approach that combines working through past attachment and family issues with developing new coping skills to improve emotional well-being, self-esteem, and stress management. Therapy also targets common self-defeating behaviors like addiction, avoidance, and social isolation that can block people from moving forward in their lives.

Dr. Cymerman’s approach to couples therapy focuses on strengthening emotional and physical connection. It’s common for couples to drift apart over time, especially when managing demands like work, parenting, illness, and financial stress. Cycles of negative interactions can leave people feeling distressed, unappreciated, and alone. Dr. Cymerman’s approach aims to get underneath arguments of the day and address the core issues underlying conflict and disconnection.

In both individual and couples therapy, Dr. Cymerman’s style is warm, collaborative, and direct. She believes the most effective interventions provide clients with a more positive self-concept, tools for improving the health of their relationships, and an increased sense of agency in their lives.