Briana Bogue Volpintesta, PhD, LMFT

Briana (she/her/hers) is an individual, couple, and family therapist specializing in self-esteem and identity work, trauma, grief, dating and relationships, anxiety, young adult life transitions, and sexual & emotional abuse recovery. She is trained in EMDR and uses a combination of EMDR and traditional talk therapy to work with clients to achieve their goals. Briana understands that therapy can be tough, and uses a collaborative approach to goal setting and treatment design. Briana is committed to practicing mindful, trauma-informed, and socially just therapy. She strives to practice anti-racist, feminist, LGBTQIA+ and non-monogamy friendly therapy, and seeks to create safe spaces for all clients that she has the privilege of working with. Briana received her Doctorate from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and has experience teaching couples communication courses.

Specialties: EMDR, Self-Esteem, Trauma, Grief, Dating and Relationships, Anxiety, Young Adult Life Transitions, Sexual/Emotional Abuse Recovery

Briana can be reached at bvolpintesta@peoplefirsttherapy.org