ABOUT MARUSHKA GLISSEN LICSW

Marushka has been in private practice for 25 years in Newton Center Ma. She is a couples therapist and has co-lead experiential couples workshops at Esalen Institute in Big Sur Ca. and Boston Ma. with the late Daniel P Brown.  She is a certified IFS supervisor and an assistant trainer and has assisted Richard Schwartz for 8 years at the Esalen institute.  

Marushka also sees individuals and kids 8 and over and since discovering IFS in 2005 sees people through an IFS lens.

Marushka is also a seasoned hypnotherapist and has worked with habit disorders, anxiety, trauma, and people going through transition and loss. Her personal experience with a long-term meditation practice helps her convey a level of presence and caring.  Marushka is also interested in transmission of trauma from one generation to the next and helps people recognize and let go of legacy burdens.  She has presented her own story being a child of Holocaust survivors and shared it with therapists in the US and abroad.