Therapists in Bethesda, MD
![Photo of Sapna Singh, LGSW, Clinical Social Work/Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/1030f543-62fc-4408-9975-eaa098f513bf/1/320x400.png)
Hi, my name is Sapna (she/her) and I am a Dialectical Behavior Therapist and licensed social worker in DC, MD, and VA currently taking new clients virtually. I love working with adults, couples, and families dealing with grief, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relationship challenges. I am especially passionate about working with teens/young adults (16-23 years!) on executive functioning coaching and handling the stressors of growing up in a demanding world. My passion is using cognitive behavior strategies to help challenge negative thinking and change behavior to improve your life and increase your happiness!
Hi, my name is Sapna (she/her) and I am a Dialectical Behavior Therapist and licensed social worker in DC, MD, and VA currently taking new clients virtually. I love working with adults, couples, and families dealing with grief, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relationship challenges. I am especially passionate about working with teens/young adults (16-23 years!) on executive functioning coaching and handling the stressors of growing up in a demanding world. My passion is using cognitive behavior strategies to help challenge negative thinking and change behavior to improve your life and increase your happiness!
![Photo of Natalia Schuermann, LPC Intern](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/894250bd-fb3e-4eca-875e-9595a90e4eee/2/320x400.jpeg)
Russian and/or English speaking individuals and couples work with me to gain insight and address thought, behavior, relationship and mood patterns that affect their mental health. We explore, identify and implement coping strategies to improve or manage conflict, impulsivity, self-esteem, shame, grief, transitions, infidelity, anxiety, depression, ADHD, identity challenges, misaligned values and more. You'll develop skills to identify feelings; communicate effectively; manage conflict; reframe irrational thoughts; regulate emotions; change or leverage behaviors; increase distress tolerance; improve interpersonal skills and more.
Russian and/or English speaking individuals and couples work with me to gain insight and address thought, behavior, relationship and mood patterns that affect their mental health. We explore, identify and implement coping strategies to improve or manage conflict, impulsivity, self-esteem, shame, grief, transitions, infidelity, anxiety, depression, ADHD, identity challenges, misaligned values and more. You'll develop skills to identify feelings; communicate effectively; manage conflict; reframe irrational thoughts; regulate emotions; change or leverage behaviors; increase distress tolerance; improve interpersonal skills and more.
![Photo of Lakhshmi Nagireddy, LMSW, Clinical Social Work/Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/1ebd8d00-604c-4901-8ff4-339579abc14b/1/320x400.png)
A client that works with me can expect to feel safe, feel like their needs are being met, and that they can use their strengths to overcome their challenges. We will focus on developing concrete goals that align with their sense of values and their strengths. We will work collaboratively to develop ways that work for them to shift their patterns of behavior into more adaptive ways of navigating their challenges.
A client that works with me can expect to feel safe, feel like their needs are being met, and that they can use their strengths to overcome their challenges. We will focus on developing concrete goals that align with their sense of values and their strengths. We will work collaboratively to develop ways that work for them to shift their patterns of behavior into more adaptive ways of navigating their challenges.
![Photo of Reji Abhilash, PhD, Psychologist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/5a20d684-a8a4-4dec-92ac-9d9d10a56c09/1/320x400.jpeg)
My ideal client is one who has psychological mindedness to seek help & attains mental stability & self-acceptance to overcome their distress. I have the privilege of working with a wide variety of clients (children, adolescents, and adults) in providing appropriate interventions, targeting recovery & progress. I provide specialized evidence-based intervention for clients diagnosed with anxiety (OCD, panic attacks & social anxiety), depression, grief, trauma and PTSD, addiction, schizophrenia, bipolar & personality disorders (BPD), Alzheimer's & dementia including caretaking burden of the family to improve their quality of life.
My ideal client is one who has psychological mindedness to seek help & attains mental stability & self-acceptance to overcome their distress. I have the privilege of working with a wide variety of clients (children, adolescents, and adults) in providing appropriate interventions, targeting recovery & progress. I provide specialized evidence-based intervention for clients diagnosed with anxiety (OCD, panic attacks & social anxiety), depression, grief, trauma and PTSD, addiction, schizophrenia, bipolar & personality disorders (BPD), Alzheimer's & dementia including caretaking burden of the family to improve their quality of life.
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Renu K. Aldrich
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Verified Verified
Chevy Chase, MD 20825 (Online Only)
Therapy can benefit you wherever you are in life, whether it's in the midst of a crisis, if you're feeling distant from a partner or your parents, or if you simply want to know yourself better. Providing therapy is a sacred calling for me, and I am honored to empower either individuals, couples, families, or groups to reach goals or explore the unknown. I use a systemic approach to help clients in the context of environments and identities. Together, we can grow and become the authors of our own stories. By accepting who we are and our imperfections, we increase our ability to love ourselves and connect more deeply with others.
Therapy can benefit you wherever you are in life, whether it's in the midst of a crisis, if you're feeling distant from a partner or your parents, or if you simply want to know yourself better. Providing therapy is a sacred calling for me, and I am honored to empower either individuals, couples, families, or groups to reach goals or explore the unknown. I use a systemic approach to help clients in the context of environments and identities. Together, we can grow and become the authors of our own stories. By accepting who we are and our imperfections, we increase our ability to love ourselves and connect more deeply with others.
![Photo of Rebeca Yohros, Pre-Licensed Professional](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/c774d769-22ab-4ed6-8c8c-b4eb843c4e23/1/320x400.jpeg)
As an trauma focused and EMDR trained provider, we'll process experiences and gain skills to manage or decrease distress around identity, relationships, neurodivergence, caretaking, substance use, overwhelm, transitions, guilt/shame, trauma, mood and stress. We'll use solution-focused, dialectical behavior therapy, attachment, multicultural approaches, and cognitive behavioral frameworks. As we explore and understand your thoughts, behaviors, relationship and their impact, you will improve communication, regulate mood, implement new behaviors and decrease symptoms of anxiety, PTSD, depression, ADHD, substance use and more.
As an trauma focused and EMDR trained provider, we'll process experiences and gain skills to manage or decrease distress around identity, relationships, neurodivergence, caretaking, substance use, overwhelm, transitions, guilt/shame, trauma, mood and stress. We'll use solution-focused, dialectical behavior therapy, attachment, multicultural approaches, and cognitive behavioral frameworks. As we explore and understand your thoughts, behaviors, relationship and their impact, you will improve communication, regulate mood, implement new behaviors and decrease symptoms of anxiety, PTSD, depression, ADHD, substance use and more.
![Photo of Natalia Schuermann, LPC Intern](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/d5960c4f-872a-4ae3-946e-e3213b0984ac/1/320x400.jpeg)
English and Russian speaking couples and individuals with diverse identity backgrounds work with me to process guilt related to caretaking; explore the reasons for certain behavior patterns; enhance communication; increase mood regulation; navigate career or relationship changes; explore identity; navigate marital challenges; and gain skills for anxiety, ADHD, depression, PTSD, addiction. We'll process and address cognitive, emotional and behavioral patterns that affect functioning and relationships. I work from a culturally competent stance, acknowledge the whole person and create a space that honors identity and intersectionality.
English and Russian speaking couples and individuals with diverse identity backgrounds work with me to process guilt related to caretaking; explore the reasons for certain behavior patterns; enhance communication; increase mood regulation; navigate career or relationship changes; explore identity; navigate marital challenges; and gain skills for anxiety, ADHD, depression, PTSD, addiction. We'll process and address cognitive, emotional and behavioral patterns that affect functioning and relationships. I work from a culturally competent stance, acknowledge the whole person and create a space that honors identity and intersectionality.
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Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
11 Endorsed
Rockville, MD 20850 (Online Only)
Do you feel like you could be a better, happier version of yourself? Do you feel like your life just isn’t aligned with where you want it to be? Are you feeling disconnected from your partner, or from others that are important to you? I have found that the benefits of therapy can be profound. The quality of relationships can improve. It can bring meaning and fulfillment to work. Confidence and self worth can abound.
Do you feel like you could be a better, happier version of yourself? Do you feel like your life just isn’t aligned with where you want it to be? Are you feeling disconnected from your partner, or from others that are important to you? I have found that the benefits of therapy can be profound. The quality of relationships can improve. It can bring meaning and fulfillment to work. Confidence and self worth can abound.
![Photo of Ayushi Tibrewala, LGPC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/133decdc-a2ea-47cd-920c-4437c299d2c9/2/320x400.jpeg)
Are you struggling with a big change in your life? Do you feel like you can't bring your authentic self into the world? Do you feel stressed, disconnected, or ashamed? Then you've come to the right place! We'll collaborate on a plan to build skills and generate insight so that you can foster authentic connections with yourself and others. I work with individuals adults.
Are you struggling with a big change in your life? Do you feel like you can't bring your authentic self into the world? Do you feel stressed, disconnected, or ashamed? Then you've come to the right place! We'll collaborate on a plan to build skills and generate insight so that you can foster authentic connections with yourself and others. I work with individuals adults.
![Photo of Sandhya Wilhelm, LPC, LCPC, NCC, Licensed Professional Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/6236c49f-0002-40d2-a9ec-ef7c79c9ee23/3/320x400.jpeg)
Sandhya Wilhelm
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LCPC, NCC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Kensington, MD 20891 (Online Only)
Seeking help is the most challenging thing that most of us will ever do. Armed with life skills, information, and knowledge, we are expected to have all the right answers. Even if we have endured familial, racial, or socio-economic struggles and barriers, we hesitate to seek assistance because of our conditioning to perfection. This pressure makes it that much harder to speak with an absolute stranger and pour out all our life’s troubles. However, if that stranger is a genuine listener, makes us feel safe, and compassionately transitions us from pain to healing, it becomes easier to let that person in on our helplessness.
Seeking help is the most challenging thing that most of us will ever do. Armed with life skills, information, and knowledge, we are expected to have all the right answers. Even if we have endured familial, racial, or socio-economic struggles and barriers, we hesitate to seek assistance because of our conditioning to perfection. This pressure makes it that much harder to speak with an absolute stranger and pour out all our life’s troubles. However, if that stranger is a genuine listener, makes us feel safe, and compassionately transitions us from pain to healing, it becomes easier to let that person in on our helplessness.
![Photo of Sara Sheikh, LCSW-C, LICSW, RYT-500, Clinical Social Work/Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/ea9873bf-a6df-48d6-8303-2f5c91de15f8/3/320x400.jpeg)
Sara Sheikh
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C, LICSW, RYT-500
Verified Verified
Chevy Chase, MD 20825
You might be feeling stuck in ways that disrupts your quality of life and creative potential, desiring to heal wounds from painful life experiences, adjusting to a big change, or grieving a loss that carries great significance and impact. You’re here because you’re looking for a safe, supportive, judgment free space to heal and grow. You’ve tried traditional talk therapy but need an approach the values the wisdom of the body-mind connection. You’re ready to process feelings, sensations and ways of being that no longer serve you. You’re motivated for a life that feels whole, authentic, and connected.
You might be feeling stuck in ways that disrupts your quality of life and creative potential, desiring to heal wounds from painful life experiences, adjusting to a big change, or grieving a loss that carries great significance and impact. You’re here because you’re looking for a safe, supportive, judgment free space to heal and grow. You’ve tried traditional talk therapy but need an approach the values the wisdom of the body-mind connection. You’re ready to process feelings, sensations and ways of being that no longer serve you. You’re motivated for a life that feels whole, authentic, and connected.
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Radhika Barrett
Resident in Counseling, MA, NBCC, NCC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Potomac, MD 20854
We all have anxieties. We have defenses against hurt that we build up over time, that become solidified into unproductive patterns of behavior and prevent us from living our best lives. We all, from time to time, lose connection with ourselves and those around us, as we try and do the million things that daily life demands of us. It’s okay. You’re not alone.
We all have anxieties. We have defenses against hurt that we build up over time, that become solidified into unproductive patterns of behavior and prevent us from living our best lives. We all, from time to time, lose connection with ourselves and those around us, as we try and do the million things that daily life demands of us. It’s okay. You’re not alone.
![Photo of Simran Puri, Pre-Licensed Professional](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/82b60113-0e95-4de5-a6cf-ed0d5892089b/2/320x400.jpeg)
My approach to supporting clients gain insight, regulate emotions, explore their thoughts and making conscious choices is patient, curious without "othering", accepting and kind. We'll work through exploring identity, anxiety, substance use, overwhelm, caretaker stress, mood changes and disorders, shame, worry, depression, concentration, transitions/adjustment, immigrant/expat identity, relationships, trauma, grief and more. We'll complete a treatment plan/goals to guide our process. We will explore how and why you adopted certain cognitive, behavioral and emotional patterns and identify new skills to manage or eliminate symptoms.
My approach to supporting clients gain insight, regulate emotions, explore their thoughts and making conscious choices is patient, curious without "othering", accepting and kind. We'll work through exploring identity, anxiety, substance use, overwhelm, caretaker stress, mood changes and disorders, shame, worry, depression, concentration, transitions/adjustment, immigrant/expat identity, relationships, trauma, grief and more. We'll complete a treatment plan/goals to guide our process. We will explore how and why you adopted certain cognitive, behavioral and emotional patterns and identify new skills to manage or eliminate symptoms.
Online Therapists
![Photo of Angana Cash- Ocd And Anxiety Specialist, LMSW, Clinical Social Work/Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/9d14fad6-b7a6-490b-b372-54e14111cf59/1/320x400.jpeg)
Angana Cash- Ocd And Anxiety Specialist
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Pikesville, MD 21208
I can help with harm and violent OCD, contamination OCD, Just right/perfectionism OCD, relationship OCD, religious/scrupulosity OCD, symmetry OCD, sexual orientation OCD, existential OCD, sensimotor OCD, pedophilia OCD, suicidal OCD, or health anxiety.
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. Anxiety can be significantly disabling and negatively impact our mood and quality of life. It's not uncommon for someone with an anxiety disorder to also suffer from depression. You are tired of experiencing symptoms of anxiety including intrusive, racing, and ruminative thoughts that seemingly don’t stop, feeling on constant edge, and worrying all the time. You may also feel anxiety present itself as uncomfortable sensations in your body. You, however, have already made the most courageous step which is to look for a solution.
I can help with harm and violent OCD, contamination OCD, Just right/perfectionism OCD, relationship OCD, religious/scrupulosity OCD, symmetry OCD, sexual orientation OCD, existential OCD, sensimotor OCD, pedophilia OCD, suicidal OCD, or health anxiety.
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. Anxiety can be significantly disabling and negatively impact our mood and quality of life. It's not uncommon for someone with an anxiety disorder to also suffer from depression. You are tired of experiencing symptoms of anxiety including intrusive, racing, and ruminative thoughts that seemingly don’t stop, feeling on constant edge, and worrying all the time. You may also feel anxiety present itself as uncomfortable sensations in your body. You, however, have already made the most courageous step which is to look for a solution.
![Photo of Abhik Saha, MA, LCPC, NCC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/c1f52438-6a81-4c8a-8e9e-d4b5c36e4731/2/320x400.jpeg)
You'll be guided in a comfortable space practicing mindfulness, breathwork, somatics, and partswork, for healing and transforming trauma, emotions, anxiety, relationship challenges, and existential crisis.
Are you a young adult struggling to envision your future? Are you feeling anxious or stuck? Have you been hurt or traumatized? Feel like your full potential is unreachable? Or frustrated with life? Be still. Breathe. Seek deep within, for YOU are the Guru. And you have the power to change things! Are you ready to transform your life, by feeling fulfilled in your passions and relationships? Are you ready to explore and journey into your own unique expression of self? Are you ready to tap into your true potential and gifts? Become a new radiant you with my support and guidance! All of you is welcome.
You'll be guided in a comfortable space practicing mindfulness, breathwork, somatics, and partswork, for healing and transforming trauma, emotions, anxiety, relationship challenges, and existential crisis.
Are you a young adult struggling to envision your future? Are you feeling anxious or stuck? Have you been hurt or traumatized? Feel like your full potential is unreachable? Or frustrated with life? Be still. Breathe. Seek deep within, for YOU are the Guru. And you have the power to change things! Are you ready to transform your life, by feeling fulfilled in your passions and relationships? Are you ready to explore and journey into your own unique expression of self? Are you ready to tap into your true potential and gifts? Become a new radiant you with my support and guidance! All of you is welcome.
![Photo of Anne 'ateeka' Contee, LCPC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/41045318-472e-491d-a432-118d381c2e36/2/320x400.jpeg)
I provide professional counseling services integrated with a holistic, bottom-up approach emphasizing the connection between mind, body, and spirit. As a yoga and mindfulness teacher for 18 years, I often incorporate several mindfulness practices into my therapy sessions. As a Certified Imago Therapist, I work with individual couples along South Asian and African American families dealing with issues related to generational trauma to identity formation and assimilation. I am an EMDR-trained and Trauma-informed Yoga teacher. I am a certified nature-informed therapist specializing in equine-assisted trauma-informed therapy.
I provide professional counseling services integrated with a holistic, bottom-up approach emphasizing the connection between mind, body, and spirit. As a yoga and mindfulness teacher for 18 years, I often incorporate several mindfulness practices into my therapy sessions. As a Certified Imago Therapist, I work with individual couples along South Asian and African American families dealing with issues related to generational trauma to identity formation and assimilation. I am an EMDR-trained and Trauma-informed Yoga teacher. I am a certified nature-informed therapist specializing in equine-assisted trauma-informed therapy.
![Photo of Saumya Kaup Davis, LCPC, LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/9b0ae7a6-99a8-44eb-aabd-819b6acbb23f/1/320x400.jpeg)
Saumya Kaup Davis
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Baltimore, MD 21211 (Online Only)
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed and Board-Certified Therapist in Maryland, Pennsylvania and South Carolina with over 10 years of professional work experience. I am a certified, as well as a lifelong, practitioner of meditation and yoga. My clinical experience comes from providing direct mental health and behavioral counseling for young children, teens, and adults with a variety of presenting issues including stress/anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family issues, trauma recovery, racialized and intergenerational trauma recovery, mood instability, ADHD and gender identity.
Hello and welcome. I am a Licensed and Board-Certified Therapist in Maryland, Pennsylvania and South Carolina with over 10 years of professional work experience. I am a certified, as well as a lifelong, practitioner of meditation and yoga. My clinical experience comes from providing direct mental health and behavioral counseling for young children, teens, and adults with a variety of presenting issues including stress/anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family issues, trauma recovery, racialized and intergenerational trauma recovery, mood instability, ADHD and gender identity.
![Photo of Renee P Lewis - Space For Grace, LLC-Renee P Lewis, LCPC, LCADC, LCPC, LCADC, NCC](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/755b5e14-ce09-4674-a6d3-8582ece92857/2/320x400.jpeg)
Space For Grace, LLC-Renee P Lewis, LCPC, LCADC
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, LCADC, NCC
Verified Verified
Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Space For Grace, LLC, is a humanistic private practice, which specializes in helping others find their purpose in life and assisting them with moving towards and through the healing processes of life, for a fuller quality of life experience. Beginning March 15, 2021, our office will move to a 5-day work week and will be closed on weekends, to allow for more self-care for our staff, during this time of global reflective healing.
Space For Grace, LLC, is a humanistic private practice, which specializes in helping others find their purpose in life and assisting them with moving towards and through the healing processes of life, for a fuller quality of life experience. Beginning March 15, 2021, our office will move to a 5-day work week and will be closed on weekends, to allow for more self-care for our staff, during this time of global reflective healing.
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Megan Bhatia-Mohamed
Counselor, LCPC, LPC, MA
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Baltimore, MD 21244 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
I am an evidence based clinician who prioritizes patient education to empower clients in collaborative treatment planning. I have worked in a variety of clinical settings and I strongly believe that a good foundation to therapy starts with a strong therapeutic alliance with a therapist. I value rapport building and taking the time to learn my clients.
I am an evidence based clinician who prioritizes patient education to empower clients in collaborative treatment planning. I have worked in a variety of clinical settings and I strongly believe that a good foundation to therapy starts with a strong therapeutic alliance with a therapist. I value rapport building and taking the time to learn my clients.
![Photo of Darwin Green, LGPC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/cd405765-217f-4473-b901-b3ef823a5ba7/2/320x400.jpeg)
Darwin offers an individualized approach, implementing mindfulness-based, solutions-focused, narrative, family systems, attachment-based, and cognitive behavioral (CBT) interventions. He partners with his clients to identify both practical and insightful interventions that cultivate success in everyday life. Darwin provides a supportive, relaxed, and safe environment where you can work through and uncover difficult emotions and achieve personal growth. He strives to assist you to process trauma, conflicts, and everyday stress so that you may be your most healthy self and experience a more connected and fulfilled life.
Darwin offers an individualized approach, implementing mindfulness-based, solutions-focused, narrative, family systems, attachment-based, and cognitive behavioral (CBT) interventions. He partners with his clients to identify both practical and insightful interventions that cultivate success in everyday life. Darwin provides a supportive, relaxed, and safe environment where you can work through and uncover difficult emotions and achieve personal growth. He strives to assist you to process trauma, conflicts, and everyday stress so that you may be your most healthy self and experience a more connected and fulfilled life.
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Couples Counseling Therapists
Does couples counseling work?
Research shows that couples counseling is effective; it can reduce relationship distress and improve emotional awareness, communication, empathy, intimacy, and overall relationship satisfaction. For example, emotionally focused therapy was found to be effective for about 75 percent of couples, and those benefits lasted at least two years.
When should a couple seek counseling?
Couples can benefit from counseling if they consistently struggle in their relationship. They may have lost the ability to communicate effectively, become entrenched in harmful patterns, begun to fight more than usual, broken the other’s trust, suffered from a mental or physical illness, or faced any number of other challenges. Many therapists offer free consultations, so if a couple isn’t sure whether therapy is necessary, asking directly can provide clarity.
How can I get my partner to go to couples therapy?
The decision to seek couples therapy is often driven by one partner, who then convinces the other to participate. When discussing the idea, the initiator should be direct and assertive. They can state the problems they see and explain how the relationship would benefit from therapy. In more serious cases, they can also explain how their relationship may suffer without making any changes or seeking professional help.
How does a couple prepare for couples counseling?
The anticipation of beginning couples counseling can be difficult—sometimes more difficult than the first session itself. Taking a few moments to reflect can allay those concerns: What are the current challenges? When and how did they begin? What do they want the relationship to look like in the future? Reflecting on these questions can help individuals or couples articulate their goals. Of course, the therapist will also ask questions and guide couples through the process.