Eleonora Bass, Psy.D.
Eleonora Bass, PsyD has had an incredibly interesting and diverse life, education, and career. . .
She is interested in supporting individual growth by focusing on strengths, skill building, and insight through culturally competent therapy and assessment in multiple languages (English, Spanish, and Russian). Dr. Bass has had therapy and assessment/testing experience with all age groups and has done clinical work in Massachusetts, Costa Rica, Israel, and Ecuador. Mood disorders, learning disabilities, multicultural issues, and trauma have been particular areas of interest to her. In terms of theoretical orientations, she is drawn to humanistic, existential, cultural-relational, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, narrative, and integrating Eastern approaches like mindfulness and meditation.
In her blossoming career as a psychologist, she has worked at a day treatment center for adult patients struggling with addictions and psychiatric problems, doing group therapy and crisis intervention. She has also worked in a therapeutic school for elementary and middle school aged children doing play therapy, social skills groups, and learning disability evaluations/assessments, particularly enjoying the symbolic, creative, and indirect communication involved in that work. She completed her APA-accredited internship at Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC), north of Boston, where she worked with a multicultural population of all ages, had assessment opportunities through the Brenner Center for psychological testing, did therapy in all modalities, and was exposed to almost every diagnosis listed in the ever changing Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). At LCHC, she led a Spanish-speaking cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) group for anxiety/depression, did individual therapy in English/Russian/Spanish with adults 21+, and conducted psychological evaluations. Her international clinical experiences in Costa Rica and Ecuador included doing psychological evaluations and therapy in Spanish with children and adults in a school, university, and hospital setting, and receiving training in rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), relaxation techniques, and hypnosis. In Israel, she led an educational and support group for generational trauma for young adults of Jewish decent.
She received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Psychology from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, her Master of Arts (MA) degree in Mental Health Counseling from Boston College, and her Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D) degree in Clinical Psychology from William James College (formerly known as Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology). Dr. Bass is provisionally licensed in the State of Texas.
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