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Stuck in survival mode? If you've experienced trauma, seeking both physical and emotional safety to restoring the quality of your life. We can work together to address the trauma, develop healthy coping strategies, and reduce the impact of triggers on your wellbeing. Its time to take back your life and find rest from the nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance, insomnia, mood swings, isolation, distrust, feeling on edge, and negative thoughts you keep ruminiating on about yourself or others. 

Main Interventions: EMDR, TF-CBT, and narrative therapy

Treatment for:

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - can include from past experiences of sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, religious trauma, traumatic loss or harm to a loved one, other injury.
• Adjustment Disorder with depression or anxiety - when transitions take a significant hit on your emotional wellbeing and your struggling to bounce back from it.
• Acute Stress Disorder
• Childhood trauma including sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, or neglect.
• Attachment trauma - 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, or DV or Foster Care
• Medical trauma - during medical procedures, childbirth, and injury

You might feel like being an anxious person is who you always have been, who you are, and who you always will be, but it doesn't have to stay that way. Just like anxiety can be learned and unlearned, so can being in a state of calm. We can work on practical strategies to manage your symptoms so it is easier to function in the present.

Main Interventions: CBT, exposure, mindfulness-based and somatic awareness approaches. 

We treat:

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Panic Attacks
• Separation Anxiety Disorder
• 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)

You feel like you have no one to talk to. You feel embarrassed at the thought that people would get to know you and see how much you struggle with everyday tasks or your masked moods. You don't know why things that seem so simple, feel so hard. It looks like everyone else is handling things better. Your inner critic is the worst and yet the self-shaming seems to be the only ways you can motivate yourself. This may be hard to believe, but you are able to see positive change in your life WITHOUT using shame. Your life matters, and you can live a fulfilling life.

Main Interventions: CBT, motivational interviewing, solution-focused, narrative, ACT

Treatment for:

• Major Depressive Disorder
• Post-partum Depression
• Depressed feelings 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 Washington, 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. 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. My goal is to 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, scripture-reading or being connected with a faith-based community.

 $150 per 50 min session  

The following plans are accepted for North Carolina and Maryland clients:

Blue Cross Blue Shield, BCBS Federal Plans, Carefirst, 

Optum Plans (United Healthcare, Oscar, Oxford)

AETNA (excludes CVS Plans), Christian Brothers Services

Out-of-network and self-pay

The following plans are accepted for Washington clients:

AETNA (excludes CVS Plans)

Out-of-network and self-pay

Clients who are  insured through Aetna, Optum Plans, and Christian Brothers Services will be billed for sessions through ALMA billing services. 

Clients insured through Blue Cross Blue Shield and related plans will have claims billed by clinician directly with insurer. 

Clients planning to use Out-of-network benefits can be provided a supebill. 

Out-of-pocket Fees are charged directly to the client's credit card for Late Cancellations/No-shows, treatment summaries, paperwork requests, meetings with other providers for coordination of care at your request, and court requests. These are charged at the time of service. These fees cannot be charged to insurance and are outlined in our intake paperwork. 

Therapist will run a benefits check verification but it is still the responsibiity of the client to know your coverage and it is encouraged that all client's check their own benefits to confirm coverage prior to starting services, since client is fully responsible for the payment of services rendered that insurance does not cover. There are times that clients are initially indicated as in-network based on initial eligibility check, but later is determined to be out-of-network. Additionally, if your  plan is not located in the state where you reside, it is possible it won't be considered in network with therapist.

DEDUCTIBLES: Clients with deductibles will be charged per session at the clinician's contracted rate with insurance until clinician receives confirmation that your deductible has been reached.