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If you've experienced trauma, it's important to seek both physical and emotional safety. With specialized training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Narrative Therapy, we can help you work through the trauma, develop healthy coping strategies, and reduce the impact of triggers on your wellbeing. We want you to find rest and freedom from the nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance, insomnia, mood swings, isolation, distrust, being in a high-alert state and relational impacts of your trauma. You do not have to be limited by your trauma. 

We treat:

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Adjustment Disorder with depression or anxiety
• Acute Stress Disorder
• Childhood trauma 
• History of sexual abuse, physical abuse, or emotional abuse, lack of basic needs being met
• Attachment trauma - results from a disruption in bond between a caregiver and child due to inconsistent, volatile, distant, neglectful or overly critical caregiving; can also result from caregivers living with mental illness, addiction, DV, or other family crisis) 
• Foster care
• Other traumas (death or illness of a loved one, car accidents, job loss) 

In today's world, anxiety is the norm, but it doesn't have to be for you. We all deal with it at times, but that doesn't mean we have to let it run our lives. We can work on practical strategies to manage your symptoms so it is easier to function in the present while maintaining the long-term goal of reducing the intensity and frequency that your anxiety gets in the way of your friendships, life goals, or sleep. We often incorporate CBT, exposure, mindfulness based and somatic awareness approaches into a treatment plan that is designed in collaboration with you to meet your specific needs. 

We treat:

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Social Anxiety
• Panic Attacks
• Separation Anxiety
• Specific Phobias
• Stress from life transitions (eg. having children, starting or leaving a job, preparing for college, moving to a new area, seeking to build new community)
• Stress from financial pressures

Women are tough. We have to endure a lot of things physically and emotionally that just comes with territory of being a woman. But if we never let that guard down and always show our "best" and least vulnerable face to others, things can start to feel super lonely. We miss out on depth of relationships and we start to have thoughts like, "What is wrong with me?" or believe everyone else is doing better than we are. When creating a treatment plan for women, we want to think about our physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and relational health needs. As much as most of us hate the thought of going to a meet-up to try to make new friends, we need to start taking steps to build quality community.

We treat:

• Post-partum Depression
• Women struggling with mood swings due to hormonal changes
• Self-esteem Issues
• Frequent comparison to others, guilt, or often thinking of yourself as a "bad" mom, friend or family member
• Isolation

• Sessions are held using a HIPAA-compliant video platform. 
• Services are not offered by telephone or in-person at this time.
• Clients must be in Maryland or North Carolina during all sessions

Note: The expectation is for clients to attend weekly, or at the frequency agreed upon with the clinician, until the client and therapist agree that a reduced frequency schedule is appropriate clinically for progress. Some clients may meet more than once per week. Inconsistencies in attendance could impact client progress and may result in a discontinuation of services.  

We will take a collaborative approach in setting treatment goals, and use assessments to monitor your progress. Sessions tend to be integrative of various models and approaches (CBT, motivational interviewing, ACT, mindfulness-based etc.) unless specified as a structured therapy, such as EMDR. 

Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, evidence-based treatment most commonly used to treat PTSD and addiction.  It entails a patient briefly focusing on a traumatic memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (eye-movements or tapping), which is intended to reduce emotional associations with traumatic memories. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based treatment proven effective in treating PTSD, anxiety, depression, and various other mental health disorders. CBT aims to raise awareness about inaccurate or negative thinking to be able to identify and challenge thoughts and reduce their negative impact on your well-being. 

The role of faith in therapy is not to tell you what to believe or to answer your most burning theological questions. We create space to process thoughts and feelings about faith, examine how that connects with overall well-being, internal turmoil, or history, and pull from the resources that currently or previously have helped you - such as prayer, journaling, or being connected with a faith-based community.

 $130 per 50 min session  

Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carefirst, AETNA, and out-of-network.

Clients insured through Aetna or paying out-of-pocket will be billed for sessions through ALMA billing services, and those wishing to use their out-of-network benefits can be provided a superbill. Clients insured through BCBS will have claims handled by clinician's team directly with insurer. 

Additional Fees are charged directly to the client's credit card for Late Cancellations/No-shows, summaries, paperwork requests, and court requests. These fees cannot be charged to insurance and are outlined in our intake paperwork.