Silvia Dare(She/Her/Hers)

Silvia DaRe is an Italian-American Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over fifteen years of experience working with trauma, attachment wounds, and high-conflict couples in Massachusetts. She works primarily with thoughtful, psychologically minded individuals and couples who feel stuck in painful relational patterns despite insight and effort. Many of her clients function well externally but struggle with emotional numbness, chronic disconnection, cycles of conflict, or difficulties with trust, intimacy, and vulnerability. Silvia has particular experience working with couples impacted by betrayal or infidelity, as well as individuals with developmental and relational trauma histories.

Drawing from Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and systemic family therapy, Silvia understands problematic behaviors as organized survival strategies rather than character flaws. Therapy focuses on identifying the protective parts that drive patterns, understanding what they are guarding, and strengthening clients’ capacity to respond from a more grounded, regulated, and connected internal state. With couples, Silvia pays close attention to how power, vulnerability, longing, and protection are negotiated between partners, and works actively to move relationships out of blame, gridlock, and polarization.

Silvia works in an engaged, direct, and collaborative manner, balancing depth-oriented exploration with experiential and skills-based interventions. She places strong importance on the therapeutic relationship as a space where relational patterns can be observed in real time and worked through with honesty and accountability. Her style tends to resonate with clients who value psychological depth and are open to examining how early relational experiences continue to shape present-day choices and relationships.

Silvia is licensed in Massachusetts and provides telehealth services statewide. She is in-network with Aetna and accepts select additional insurance plans.