Welcome
About
MindWell Psychology
MindWell Psychology is a private psychotherapy practice providing individual therapy, couples counseling, and neuroscience-informed therapy in Providence, Rhode Island.
Dr. Livia Freier offers evidence-based mental health care for adults, couples, and families. Her work is grounded in clinical psychology and current neuroscience research, supporting emotional well-being, psychological resilience, and healthier relationships.
We provide thoughtful, individualized therapy for people seeking meaningful change, not surface-level solutions.
At MindWell Psychology, Dr. Freier works with clients who would like to gain a strong sense of self and build self-confidence both long-term and situational. Her practice is open to individuals, couples, and families. Her neuroscience research is affiliated with Brown University.
How It Works
Who We Help
Dr. Livia Freier offers therapy in Providence, RI, for individuals and couples navigating emotional, relational, and life challenges, including:
- Anxiety, chronic stress, and burnout
- Depression and mood concerns
- Relationship difficulties and couples counseling
- Trauma and trauma-related symptoms
- ADHD and executive functioning challenges
- Life transitions, identity concerns, and self-esteem
- Family dynamics and communication difficulties
Our clients are often high-functioning adults and professionals who feel stuck despite insight, effort, or prior therapy and want a deeper, more effective approach.
A Neuroscience-Informed Approach to Therapy
At MindWell Psychology, therapy is informed by an understanding of how the brain and nervous system shape emotion, behavior, and relationships. Neuroscience research shows that emotional regulation, stress response, attention, and interpersonal functioning are deeply interconnected. When these systems are overwhelmed, people may experience anxiety, reactivity, avoidance, or difficulty sustaining change.
Our clinicians integrate neuroscience-informed principles into psychotherapy to help clients build regulation skills, increase emotional clarity, and develop more intentional responses in daily life and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches may include cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based work, emotion-focused therapy, and relational and insight-oriented modalities, always tailored to the individual or couple.
Therapy types we offer
CBT is a type of therapy that helps you to become aware of negative thinking or disruptive thoughts so that you can address difficult situations more effectively when they arise. It’s a structured and goal-oriented approach to help you deal with challenging times by:
- Exploring the issues that upset you and why
- Creating awareness of your thoughts and emotions
- Helping you to identify negative thinking
- Practicing techniques such as relaxation, coping and resilience skills, etc.
Existential therapy explores difficulties by drawing on philosophical perspectives. It explores the human condition as a whole and what this means in the context of what’s worrying you. One key aspect is that it doesn’t focus on the past to inform your future, but the here and now. In this way, it can help you to explore new values, beliefs, and ideas about yourself.
On a day-to-day basis, many people are guided by their emotions. Emotion-focused therapy creates awareness of your feelings and emotions to help you adapt and cope more effectively with those that affect you negatively. In this type of therapy, you’ll learn how to:
- Become more aware of your emotions
- Accept and evaluate your feelings
- Regulate your negative emotions
- Change emotions to avoid harmful behaviors associated with them
This type of psychotherapy helps you to examine how your early interpersonal relationships and exchanges have shaped your current thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. Many of our beliefs and habits (positive and negative) are shaped by our earliest experiences and connections to our parents. Infancy is a time when we develop healthy patterns of emotional and physical relationship. The goal of attachment-based therapy is to examine these to help you build trusting and supporting relations. Attachment-based therapy can help with many issues such as anxiety, depression, love and relationship concerns and self-confidence.
What We Offer
Specialties & Expertise
Our Process
What to Expect
Our first session is an opportunity for us to meet and discuss your needs, talk about your problems and what you’d like to gain from therapy. It’s also a chance to find out if you’re comfortable talking to your therapist or coach.
By the end of the session, we can decide on a treatment schedule that works for you and discuss any other questions you may have. Because everyone is unique, there’s no hard or fast rule as to how many sessions would benefit you. Some clients benefit from six sessions while others get the most out of a longer, weekly commitment.
Therapy and coaching are a regular commitment that you make to yourself. It’s not a service you pay us to provide, but a dedication and opportunity for you to work through the issues that bother you. This is your time.
Join Us
How we work together
If you are based in Providence, you may wish to come see us face-to-face.
We offer online and telephone therapy and coaching sessions for those unable to travel or living further afield.