Clinical Director and Founder of BEATS

Jordan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and certified yoga instructor based out of East Arlington, MA. She believes in collaboratively and consensually building working relationships with clients to make space for untangling, reclaiming, transforming, and navigating life's instabilities. Jordan aims to create inclusive spaces, especially for those with intersectional identities, and values culturally competent and trauma-informed practices. She works with children and adults to help them reclaim their innate resilience through an integrated approach, encouraging simultaneous feeling AND dealing.

Jordan's practice is anchored in a play-based drama therapy method called Developmental Transformations (DvT), the neurosequential model of therapeutics, trauma-informed expressive arts therapy, attachment theory, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy. She utilizes play-based, expressive arts, and embodied interventions to support clients throughout their healing journey.

Expressive Arts Therapist and Mental Health Counselor

Zaira Boylan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor at BEATS. She believes that the core of therapy is the relationship between the client and therapist. She endeavors to foster trust and make a safe enough space to challenge assumptions about one's self and the world.  Zaira specializes in identity exploration and trauma work, primarily with queer adolescents and young adults, but has experience working with individuals across the lifespan and strives to help her clients feel more at home in their own skin.

Zaira practices a play based form of drama therapy called developmental transformations (DvT), role and parts work (IFS), cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness techniques. Her work is playful, irreverent, and focuses on embodiment, relationship dynamics, and figuring out what it means to be "good enough."

Expressive Arts Therapist and Mental Health Counselor 

Krystal Elizabeth Garcia-Deras, M.A., R-DMT, LMHC, (she/they) is a queerfemme, bilingual, eldest daughter of Central American native immigrants. They are a student of ancient, modern and futures healing traditions. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling specializing in Dance/Movement Therapy from Lesley University. She is a lifelong learner dedicated to continued education, liberation and sovereignty praxis, embodied leadership and transformative justice through healing arts, community building, and culture shaping.

Krystal intentionally practices in culturally-relevant, co-creative, collaborative, healing-centered ways to support QTBIPOC folks and anti-oppressive allies navigating life transitions, anxiety, identity and cultural challenges, and trauma-healing. Sessions are curated to include experiential practices, breathwork, ritual/ceremonial arts, remembering ancestral technologies, journaling, and/or multimodal storytelling, depending on the unique learning and processing needs of the person. Making meaning in the ways that make sense for you as a multidimensional being :) 

Administrative Assistant

Meet Lexi! Our welcoming intake coordinator and billing specialist here at BEATS Counseling. Since 2024, Lexi has been the friendly face that greets our new clients, guiding them through their first steps with us and answering any questions that come her way. 

What Lexi enjoys most about working with BEATS is being part of a nurturing environment cultivated by our therapists, where clients feel safe and supported. She takes pride in seeing our therapists provide exceptional care to everyone who walks through our doors.

Outside of work, Lexi cherishes her time with her two dogs, enjoying leisurely walks and getting lost in a good book. She's also an avid traveler, with Austria holding a special place in her heart as her favorite destination. She looks forward to revisiting Austria someday and continuing her adventures around the globe.

Cat

Lord Fluffernutter Squishington, affectionately known as "Squish", is a cat and very good baby. He passed his "ragdoll test",  (sort of) walks on a harness, and loves working with both children and adults. Squish sleeps roughly 20 hours a day and specializes in snuggles, hunting bugs, stealing hearts, and being cute. Due to his demanding sleep schedule, Squish is mostly a "work" from home cat, however, he looks forward to his rare appearances in select sessions.