Zaza S. Sakhat

Chrysalis Therapy & Wellness is a psychotherapy private practice that provides integrative, holistic clinical treatment for promoting mental health and well-being. Established in 2015 by Zaza Sakhat, LICSW & SEP, the mission of the practice is to foster the healing process of children, adolescents, and families as transformative through experiencing safe and therapeutic relationships by overcoming adversity, trauma, and maladaptive behaviors. The practice provides effective psychotherapeutic treatment models needed for clients to achieve their goals through accessing individual, group, and/or family therapy. Being committed to social justice and activism, Zaza has an MSW from Boston University’s School of Social Work (2004) with a background in working with survivors of domestic violence and rape crisis counseling, as well as working with children in public schools, residential, and community settings. She has also clinically trained and supervised social work students from the various schools in the Boston area. She has served as co-chair of a committee through the National Association of Social Workers supporting and empowering social workers of color to continue to work towards justice and change. She also has offered clinical consultation services to local non-profit organizations and public schools in the students with interrupted formal education program. Zaza has guest lectured for Lesley University on trauma and adolescents. Having served as a board member for the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG) MA chapter, she has presented at the Symposiums in Boston as well as the MA chapter conferences, North Carolina, and NYC. She has also given talks at UMASS Boston and Assumption College in the clinical counseling psychology departments on group work and adolescent girls to include group work with refugee children. She has also presented on children in distress at local charity events as well as served on the Burma Task Force as a clinical specialist on adolescent female rape survivors.