Meredith Cashman
Licensed Clinical social worker
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
My path into this work hasn’t been linear, and that’s intentional. I trained at Ivy League institutions and understand the pressure and perfectionism that can come with high-achieving environments where things can look steady on the outside but feel very different internally. I have built a broad range of clinical experience across hospice and grief care, oncology, addiction treatment, trauma, eating disorders, and work with Latinx and undocumented clients. I’ve been drawn to the complexity of how people survive, what they carry, and what actually helps change become possible. Resilience, to me, is not about pushing through or minimizing what’s hard—it’s about the capacity to keep building a life that feels meaningful and alive, even in the presence of difficulty. My work is direct, steady, and relational. I show up in a way that is warm, honest, and real—using evidence-based approaches alongside humor and humanity to help people stay with what’s difficult without getting lost in it. The focus is on helping people move through what has felt stuck so they can build a life that feels more grounded, connected, and alive.
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I work with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, relationship stress, and identity shifts—especially women moving through motherhood, caregiving, and major life transitions, as well as high-achieving individuals who are used to functioning at a high level but feel internally stuck or disconnected. I also work with people who understand their patterns but still find themselves repeating them, and are looking for something more than insight alone.
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I specialize in trauma, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, addiction, and relational patterns rooted in survival responses—overfunctioning, shutdown, emotional reactivity, and disconnection. Much of my work also involves less visible forms of loss that don’t always get named directly, including identity shifts, body-related grief, and the transitions that come with motherhood and other major life changes.
I integrate EMDR, brainspotting, ketamine-assisted therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches to support nervous system regulation and change that goes beyond insight. The focus is on helping people move through what is stuck in a way that is integrated rather than bypassed, so they can begin to build a life that feels more steady, honest, and meaningful—even in the presence of difficulty.
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I am a licensed psychotherapist with advanced training in EMDR, Perinatal Mental Health, Brainspotting, Ketamine and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. I hold a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and a BA in Cognitive Science and Anthropology from Dartmouth College.
My clinical background spans hospice and grief work, oncology, addiction treatment, trauma residential care for women, eating disorders, and community-based work with Latinx and undocumented populations. Across these settings, I’ve been drawn to the same throughline: how people survive, what they carry, and what actually helps change become possible.
My clinical work is informed by my experience as a mother of two. As a Cuban American woman and daughter of an immigrant, I understand identity and belonging through lineage and lived experience. I also spent many years living abroad as an expat in Europe and the South Pacific, which shaped how I understand identity, culture, and belonging as layered, messy, and always evolving.