Find a Therapist in Edgewood, Maryland.

My patients benefit from the well researched treatment approaches I offer for managing chronic illness, chronic pain, and mental health concerns. My extensive experience in working with health conditions means that my patients can trust the work that we do together. Benefits of therapy include better managed physical symptoms, improved quality of life, and a better ability to engage in day to day tasks. I work closely with families and school systems to improve ability to engage in school and work settings. I strive to ensure that my patients are able to live the fullest life possible while managing their medical symptoms.

Psychotherapy is a generalized term that refers to the process of meeting with a therapist, identifying a set of problems and working through those problems. GBCC clinicians have had extensive training in the therapeutic process and all hold required licenses by the state. We offer short term solution focused counseling and ongoing long term counseling. When you meet with your clinician, together you will decide what type of psychotherapy is right for you.

“The Golden Rule” can be a helpful guide to psychotherapy: treating others as you would like to be treated, with gentleness, pacing, and respect. If a counseling session is likened to conversing with a knowledgeable advisor on the doorstep of your home, psychotherapy can be like inviting that advisor into the “parlor” or “living room” of your inner world based on trust, at-ease-ness, and confidence in your advisor’s insight. My approach to psychotherapy is interactive and strengths-based, starting with cognitive (thought-based) or behavioral coping skills, and moving into awareness of family of origin themes and the impact of past trauma when needed to activate more enduring personal growth in the client.

You look for psychotherapy when something is wrong, when you are fed up with not being able to get something you need. At the same time, there are some good things in your life and you have strengths. I will listen to you carefully and become your ally. Together we will discover how you are creating what you don't want, and come up with strategies to go toward what you do want. I have much experience and many great tools to put at your service. My satisfaction is to see my clients become more in charge of their lives - and happier!

Psychotherapy that is designed to enhance cognition and brain function is always informed by latest research in neuroscience, takes into account the neuro-anatomical structures needed for a particular improvement, and works to provide Whole Brain adoption of the changes. Many modalities are used (hypnotherapy, neurofeedback, tapping, EMDR or transcranial magnetic or electrical stimulation, and more), all designed to integrate the neuropsychological change needed.

Psychotherapy is a challenging journey; the benefits of your hard work, time and tears will be worth every moment spent on my couch. Depression lifting, anxiety subsiding and relationships healed are all byproducts of the amazing psychotherapy work that I have witnessed with my clients. Be it wounds from your family of origin (the family you grew up with) or a harsh boss or a broken heart, having the space to talk and be heard, receive validation and feel safe are many of the benefits of psychotherapy. I urge you to trust the process, the psychotherapy relationship can be a truly healing process.

I am a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral therapy has been clinically proven to be effective in treating depression, general anxiety disorders, marital/relationship distress and many other problems. In your therapy I will help you learn the role thoughts, feelings and behaviors play in your relationships, your mental health, your level of success and your general quality of life. Together we can change the way you think and feel to create a more balanced, healthier and happier existence. .