Blue Cross Blue Shield Harvard Pilgrim Berklee College of Music Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO) Harvard Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO) Lesley University Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO) MIT Student and Affiliate Extended Insurance Plan (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO) Northeastern University Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO) Tufts Health Plan (Commercial Plans, not via Mass Health or Navigator) Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA PPO Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA HMO Tufts Health

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Nate Torrence, LMHC(He/Him/His)

(He/Him/His)

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

Massachusetts

Anxiety - Depression- Existential crisis & challenges- Relationship issues-Self-esteem-Emotion regulation-

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Accepting in-person & online

In-network with some insurances

$200

About Specialties Locations Insurance & Fees

Professional statement

Nate Torrence is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Cambridge, MA, offering in-person sessions in his Central Square office and telehealth sessions to clients throughout Massachusetts. Nate practices a humanistic, existential, and mindfulness-based approach to therapy. He partners with his clients to help them develop a kind, curious, nonjudgmental attention, and apply this attention to learn more about their internal subjective experience, with particular focus on emotion. Relationship, agency, and meaning are common themes in his work.

Message to clients

We don’t like uncertainty. It is tempting to grasp for the certainty of “everything is doomed” or “everything will be ok.” But a part of us remains unconvinced. It is hard to face the truth: I don’t know what is coming, only that my experience will keep changing and eventually end. There are many aspects of our experience that are hard to face. We aren’t meant to do this alone. I partner with my clients to walk together into this wilderness.

I offer a kind, curious, nonjudgmental attention, with the intent of helping my clients to sort through thoughts, judgments, reactions, behaviors, and felt experience, so they can learn to care more skillfully for the parts of their experience that are outside of their control and to take decisive action in the areas of their life where they have agency.

Over time, this relational practice builds solidity. It loosens the tight grip on “everything is doomed” or “everything will be ok,” and opens up “it will keep changing, and eventually end, and I trust in my capacity to feel and care for my experience, no matter what comes.”

Work and Education

Years of Experience: 8 years

Boston College, MA in Mental Health Counseling, 2018

Licensure

Massachusetts: 12038

Languages

English

Specialties

Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)

Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life

Existential crisis & challenges - Supportive exploration of meaning and purpose in one’s life; finding one’s path in the face of existential anxiety, dread, and feelings of meaninglessness

Relationship issues - Understanding one’s wants and needs in relationships; exploring patterns of interaction, addressing concerns, and strengthening satisfaction in relationships and dating

Self-esteem - Cultivating self-compassion, assertiveness, and confidence; developing ways to reduce suffering, anxiety, social withdrawal, and self-neglect

Emotion regulation - Learning how to effectively manage the ups and downs of intense emotions; developing coping skills to use in a variety of settings to calm oneself and to give an appropriate amount of space to emotions

Treatment approaches

Clientele

Adults (24+)
Couples

Young adults (18-24)

Locations & Hours

Insurance

Berklee College of Music Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO)
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA HMO
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA PPO
Harvard Pilgrim
Harvard Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO)
Lesley University Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO)
MIT Student and Affiliate Extended Insurance Plan (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO)
Northeastern University Student Health Insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO)
Tufts Health
Tufts Health Plan (Commercial Plans, not via Mass Health or Navigator)

Out-of-pocket fees

Individual sessions:$200 (55min)

Nate Torrence