Center for Achieving Balance for Children and Families and Patricia Brady and Associates

The Center for Achieving Balance for Children and Families is a Medford practice, run with Patricia Brady and Associates, that supports children and families coping with change and adversity. Its particular focus is families facing parent-child contact difficulties, often in the context of divorce or court involvement. A collaborative team of clinicians provides intensive services to referred families, with treatment plans built around each family’s needs and ongoing counseling available as needed.

Patricia Brady, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, founded the center in January 2017. She previously consulted at MGH Law and Psychiatry, directed an adoption program for MSPCC, and supervised mental health services for the Family Connections Program at Children’s Hospital. Services include guardian ad litem work, court investigations, parenting coordination, reunification therapy, supervised parenting time, and family, couples and individual therapy, along with educational advocacy and testing.

What to Know

• The center has a home-like setting with a kitchen and a living room and playroom for supervised visits and counseling.
• Supervised parenting time is available on-site at the center or off-site.
• Clinician Katie O’Donoghue, an LICSW and licensed school adjustment counselor, specializes in trauma-informed work with children, youth and families.
• Brady is vice chair of the Medford Behavioral Health Commission and a past president of AFCC.