Compassionate, experienced clinicians dedicated to empowering Massachusetts families.
Tali graduated from Boston University School of Social Work. She is licensed as a Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and School Social Worker/School Adjustment Counselor. Tali has worked with individuals of diverse backgrounds across the lifespan, with a background in direct therapy, case management, and crisis intervention across inpatient psychiatric, residential, outpatient, in-home, and school settings. She has expertise in developmental trauma, anxiety, depression, high-intensity behaviors, psychosis-spectrum disorders, neurodiversity, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD), and co-occurring conditions.
With over a decade of progressive leadership in program development, clinical supervision, and organizational growth, Tali has written RFPs and grants, developed marketing and donor engagement strategies, and built innovative wrap-around teams. She has forged partnerships with hospitals, school districts, primary care practices, towns, and state agencies to increase access to care, and co-developed The Edinburg Center’s Better Together clinical framework as lead author of its guiding White Paper.
Tali lives north of Boston with her husband, teenage son, and their two affectionate Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Archie and Ginger. An active member of her local congregation, she volunteers regularly to help build warm, inclusive community.
Services: Tali offers individual and family therapy, parent coaching, special-education advocacy, and clinical supervision via Telehealth (and select in-person sessions) across Massachusetts, along with professional trainings and clinical and organizational consultation. Grounded in strengths-based, trauma-informed care, she helps every person feel truly seen and empowered to move from surviving to thriving.
Melissa graduated from Boston University School of Social Work. She is licensed as a Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and School Social Worker/School Adjustment Counselor, and completed the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental & Related Disabilities (LEND) Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Melissa has a background in programmatic leadership, training, and consulting, with expertise in intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD), disability advocacy, and inclusion.
Melissa currently practices as a senior oncology social worker, providing supportive psycho-social oncology services to people who have IDD and are facing cancer, and working on systems improvements to remove barriers that produce inequitable cancer outcomes. In prior roles she worked as a special education school social worker, outpatient therapist, and researcher delivering a self-advocacy curriculum to youth with IDD across schools and community sites in Massachusetts. In her free time, Melissa can be found shuffling one of her three children to activities or walking her licensed therapy dog, Annie, while listening to her favorite radio hits from the 90’s.
Services: Melissa assists in the development and delivery of professional trainings and offers consultation services.
My Family Resource was founded to help families navigate the complexities of mental health, educational, and disability systems. We offer individual and family therapy, parent coaching, special-education advocacy, and clinical supervision via Telehealth (and select in-person sessions) across Massachusetts — plus professional trainings and consultation.