Dr. Thomas Tashjian

Dr. Thomas Tashjian is a cognitive-behavioral psychologist practicing in Massachusetts with 33 years of clinical experience. He helps children, adults, and older adults build practical skills to manage emotional, behavioral, and health-related problems, including difficulties with attention and learning, chronic pain and health conditions, insecurity, and interpersonal relationships.

With a background in language and development, Dr. Tashjian often frames many of these concerns as arising from over-thinking, reflection, and internal self-talk - patterns that can make therapy or medication feel less effective than expected. He also brings experience as a pharmacologist, having studied how physical condition and medications for medical illness can affect mood, behavior, and emotions. That combination of perspectives allows him to help people distinguish medication- or health-related effects from psychological concerns and to identify steps that may reduce those impacts.

Outside of clinical work he is an outdoorsman, regular exerciser, and marathoner who loves dogs, cats, and horses and writes short parables about them. He has incorporated those interests into experiential therapy programs that address the issues above, and he has supported people in finding alternative ways to cope when life events or injuries reduce their ability to use familiar skills. More about his professional background and some of his stories can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-tashjian-a96517107/.