Dr. Fontenot is the Clinical Director of Psychotherapy Services at CPA. He is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been helping
patients improve their lives for nearly 15 years. Dr. Fontenot offers psychotherapy, consultation
and coaching for individuals and couples. He works to provide a warm, attentive and interactive
psychotherapy environment which helps clients deepen their self-understanding, break out of
hurtful relationship patterns and develop new modes of thinking, feeling and relating to
others. By making these changes, clients often experience greater fulfillment in their lives,
as well as a reduction in their symptoms of depression and anxiety. Dr. Fontenot has an
interest and expertise in working with:
- Young adults;
- Men entering psychotherapy for the first time;
- Persons seeking a better understanding of their sexuality;
- Couples attempting to deepen or rediscover their connection to each other;
- Men and women who are leaders in a business or corporate context;
- Persons grieving significant losses;
- Men and women who are struggling with a serious medical condition or who are attempting to lessen the effect of
stress and other psychological factors on their physical health; and
- Persons attempting to understand the role of religion or spirituality in their lives.
Dr. Fontenot’s focus is on helping persons to feel free, rather than trapped, and to be more
connected with others so that they can achieve what they hope for in life, work, and relationships.
To this end, he works from an integrative stance which incorporates psychodynamic, cognitive and health
psychology perspectives. He has experience working with individuals and couples from many ethnic,
racial and class backgrounds, as well as of different sexual orientations.
Dr. Fontenot completed his doctoral work in psychology at Boston University. He previously
earned a Master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Fontenot completed his
internship training at The Danielsen Institute in Boston, and completed his post-doctoral
fellowships at the HRI Trauma Center in Brighton and Two Brattle Center in Cambridge.
