Clinical Supervisor · Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker

Adeline Dettor, LICSW (she/her)

Licensed in Massachusetts & New Hampshire

“Pain often carries meaning we haven’t understood yet. Therapy can be a place where even the hardest experiences are brought into the relationship, understood, and worked through instead of being carried alone.”

You can be capable in many parts of your life and still find yourself undone by the same argument, the same self-criticism, the same loss, or the same feelings that keep overwhelming you. What we keep returning to is rarely random. It often has roots in earlier experiences that are still shaping us in ways we may not be fully aware of.

Adeline Dettor, LICSW (she/her), helps clients bring those connections into view. She works with professionals, young adults, and couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationships that keep circling back to the same hurt. Her approach creates space for curiosity, self-compassion, and for seemingly small and inconsequential observations to grow into life-altering insights.

Grief is also central to Adeline’s practice. No One Should Grieve Alone, the grief group she created for young adults in Cambridge, has become one of our most established and sought-after offerings. The group offers a rare place to process loss with others who have lived through similar experiences, where listening and shared connection take priority over advice, and grief can be shared rather than carried alone.

The depth of Adeline’s work is supported by rigorous training and clinical experience. She earned a Master of Social Work with a Mental Health Concentration and Trauma Certification from Boston College and has advanced psychodynamic training through the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She serves as a clinical supervisor and consultant at 1A Wellness and is also on the faculty at the Psychodynamic Couples and Family Institute of New England, where she contributes to the training of other clinicians.

Who Adeline works with

Professionals who thrive at work and want to develop the parts of themselves that close relationships call on
Couples who keep ending up in the same painful fights or distance, and are still committed to finding a better way
Those who experience emotions intensely, sometimes to the point of feeling overwhelmed, and want to understand and shift what’s happening inside them
Young adults and adults whose anxiety, depression, or past trauma keeps showing up in their relationships and daily life
People whose grief, recent or long past, feels stuck, and who are looking for a way forward
Adults who hold themselves and others to exacting standards, and are starting to feel what that costs them
Clients looking for a sustained, in-depth therapy process, including those interested in meeting more than once a week

How Adeline works

Is present with the whole range of human experience, including the thoughts and feelings that are hardest to name, and meets them with steadiness and deep humanity
Trusts that healing becomes possible when painful experiences are met with skill and care in a steady therapeutic relationship, and gives that process time to unfold
Helps clients see how what’s happening now connects to earlier experiences and relationships, and how the patterns that keep coming up fit together
Stays closely attuned, noticing small shifts in what clients say and feel, and works together with them to use what happens in session to change patterns in the rest of their lives
Works with thoughts, feelings, and what’s happening in the body, depending on what each person needs
Has extensive training in psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, EFT, and EMDR, and also draws from IFS

What Adeline loves about the work

“We have a limited amount of time on this earth. The therapy space is a rich and intense microcosm of life. One of the things I love most about being a therapist is seeing how a person’s engagement in therapy inevitably changes how they engage with the rest of their lives. When people truly lean into the process, that effort doesn’t stay in the room—it reshapes how they live for the better.”

Adeline’s core therapy approaches

Psychodynamic psychotherapy Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFCT) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

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