IN PERSON IN NORTHAMPTON + ONLINE
What we offer:
Individual Therapy
One-on-one, with the option to bring in a partner, family member, or friend when it would help.
Relational Therapy
Sessions with partners, family, or chosen family. Phoenix is presently training in Levels 1 & 2 in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Phoenix also works with a network of family and sex therapists and can refer when another fit is better.
Integrative Trauma Treatment
EMDR (Levels 1 & 2), including trauma intensives, and integrative, phase-based treatment for single-event, complex, and developmental trauma.
Reckoning and Repair
A structured, time-limited approach for people working through conflict or rupture together, in a partnership, family, or friendship to build relational endurance. The outcome may be reconnection, time apart, or a new shape for the relationship.
Gender Affirming Care
Assessments, letters of support, and clinical recommendations.
Group Therapy
Structured, focused groups that bring people together around a shared experience or goal, from caregiving and identity to healing after harm. Groups are small, time-limited, and run throughout the year, in person and online.
Affordable sessions with our associates
Starting in December, 50-minute sessions for $55 with master's-level associate clinicians who receive weekly supervision from licensed supervisors.
WHO IT'S FOR
We offer therapy to adults, partners, and families, including people who are:
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Making sense of ADHD, autism, giftedness, OCD, and the pressures of high achievement
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Healing from trauma, including PTSD and complex PTSD
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Exploring sexuality, gender, and identity
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Building LGBTQIA+ families or redefining family across the lifespan
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Working through addiction, attachment wounds, and family patterns passed down through generations
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Living between worlds: cross-class, cross-race, and other intersecting identities
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Untangling chronic shame
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Repairing after conflict, with others or within themselve
We're a training clinic, and you choose your level of involvement. With your consent, a supervisor may observe sessions. You can opt out at any time, and intake sessions are never observed.
Getting Started
Interested in counseling services with The Ruby Institute? Here's how it works.
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Reach out: Complete the form at the bottom of this page to indicate your interest.
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Let's Chat: We'll reach out to schedule a free 15-minute call. We'll ask a few questions, you can ask us anything, and together we'll see whether we're a good fit.
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First session: If it's a fit, we will work with you directly to schedule a session.
Please note:
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We keep an active waitlist and reach out as openings come up.
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Online self-scheduling isn't available at this time.
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Please indicate your interest in $55 associate sessions,
RATES & INSURANCE
Clinicians
$250 intake, $200 per session
Phoenix Rosewood, PhD, LMHC
Phoenix is the Institute's founder and director, with a PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision and more than 15 years of clinical experience. They're licensed in Massachusetts and Vermont, EMDR-trained, and specialize in trauma, shame, identity, and relationships.
Associate Clinicians
$55-$100 per session, sliding scale
Associate clinicians have graduated from an accredited master's counseling or social program and are working toward full licensure. Our associate clinicians receive weekly intensive supervision from Licensed Supervisors.
Insurance
Our Clinicians are in network with:
Clinical Interns
$55-$100 per session, sliding scale
Clinical interns are current master's-level students that have completed all of their coursework and bring prior clinical experience.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield
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Health New England (HNE)
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Optum
If you want to use a different insurance, we are able to generate a super bill for you to seek reimbursement from your insurance company.
Most clients are able to get at least a portion covered by their insurance plan this way.
OUR OFFERINGS
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Program evaluation and assessment, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
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Curriculum and workplace culture review, so practice matches stated values
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Applied research on the questions your program needs answered
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Systems facilitation for teams working through hard conversations and change
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Workshops for your team on supervision, trauma-informed practice, rupture and repair, gender justice, and more
WHO IT'S FOR
Organizations past the 101 that already understand the moment we're in and are ready to put their values into practice, including:
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Academic departments in counseling, psychology, women's and gender studies, and the humanities
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University counseling centers, DEIB offices, and faculty-support offices
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Organizations serving communities with high rates of trauma and people targeted for who they are
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Workplaces building cultures that keep good people and serve clients better
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First responders and public safety offices
PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS
Selected Work
We work with graduate programs, universities, and community agencies on everything from training design to curriculum revision to national research.
2013 - 2014
TRAINING DESIGN
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND
Wellness Institute
Developed trainings and workshops for clinicians on vicarious traumatization, burnout, and the factors that protect against them. Partnership with local community mental health agencies.
2024 - 2025
NATIONAL RESEARCH
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY SEATTLE
Research Fellowship, PhD Program in Counselor Education & Supervision, Antioch University Seattle
A national Delphi study of how expert counselor educators navigate higher education while holding targeted racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, and ability statuses. Findings informed an ACES 2025 presentation and a follow-up study on reckoning after rupture and before repair (Rosewood, 2026).
2022 - 2023
CURRICULUM REVIEW
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND
M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Assessed core and elective courses for gaps in gender justice and the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC), then proposed revisions and helped redevelop the curriculum.
CURRENT RESEARCH
NOW RECRUITING
THE RUBY INSTITUTE
Reproductive healthcare access in the American South
An anonymous, qualitative study of how transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive adults in the Southern U.S. experience reproductive and pregnancy-related care, and how it affects their mental health.
RUBY INSTITUTE PARTNERS
Selected Work
Work with graduate programs, universities, and community agencies, from training design to curriculum revision to national research.
TRAINING DESIGN
2013-2014
WELLNESS INSTITUTE
Developed trainings and workshops for clinicians on vicarious traumatization, burnout, and the factors that protect against them.
Antioch University New England, in partnership with local community mental health agencies
NATIONAL RESEARCH
2024-2025
DELPHI STUDY OF EXPERT COUNSELOR EDUCATORS
A national study of how expert counselor educators navigate higher education while holding targeted racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, and ability statuses. Findings informed a national conference presentation (ACES 2025) and a follow-up study on reckoning after rupture and before repair.
Forthcoming in the Wisconsin Counseling Journal.
Research Fellowship, PhD program in Counselor Education & Supervision, Antioch University Seattle
CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT + REVISION
2022-2023
M.A. IN CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
Evaluated core and elective courses for gaps in gender justice and the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, then proposed revisions and helped integrate and redevelop the curriculum.
Antioch University New England
CURRENT RESEARCH
NOW RECRUITING
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE ACCESS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
An anonymous, qualitative study of how transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive adults in the Southern U.S. experience reproductive and pregnancy-related care, and how it affects their mental health. We aim to help providers better understand and support TNG clients.
The Ruby Institute
Trailblazing training for clinicians at every stage.
FOR PROVIDERS
What we offer:
Continuing education, intensive trainings, year-long clinical fellowships, and supervision and consultation.
Who it's for:
Counselors, social workers, therapists, supervisors, and students, especially early-career clinicians looking for structure, mentorship, and community.
Featured:
Chronic Shame and Clinical Frameworks for Dismantling It · Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · 10am–3pm ET · In person & online · FREE (CEUs +$35, 4 CEUs pending)
How to access it:
Register for individual trainings online here.
