Johns Hopkins Therapists in Phoenix, MD

Are you ready to make a profound shift in your life? Have you have been searching for a warm, genuine presence that you can trust to walk on your healing journey with you? If so, you are in the right place. No matter what symptoms you may be struggling with now, I believe that we each have the innate capacity to heal and reach our true potential.

Are you struggling to move past the intellectual understanding of your pain and into a deeper feeling of relief? Our Friday night Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Retreats offer a safe and supportive environment for healing. Move past verbal processing into a deeper transformation with an experienced therapist right by your side. Friday night retreats include guided meditation tailored to your specific goals. Sound and art therapy are incorporated into this beautiful retreat space in Historic Reisterstown. Ketamine offers a unique window of neuroplasticity to go deeper in the therapeutic process. Limited openings for Fall 2024

My goal is to create a space for you where you feel seen and heard and to help you reconnect with yourself. Together we can work through symptoms or experiences you might be dealing with from depression, anxiety, life transitions, and past trauma. I use a Strengths-Based and Humanistic approach, Psychoeducation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to support you as you find empowerment, become self-aware, and find inner peace.

Michael provides mental health counseling to individuals, couples, and families, and works from Person-Centered and Existential approaches. He facilitates a safe, genuine, and accepting space for people to engage their underlying thoughts and feelings. Michael knows that counseling is not always comfortable or easy and admires the courage it takes to examine one’s life, process difficult experiences, and begin to embrace change. He recognizes the profound complexity of life, and the depth of each person’s inner world.

I believe that change is quite possible, though often difficult. The good part is that you are taking that first big step by contacting me! I enjoy working with adults and adolescents in individual, couples, and family sessions. With a strong foundation of psychodynamic, client centered/humanistic, and cognitive orientations, I offer an integrative therapeutic approach, depending on the individual needs of each client. My passion is guiding individuals toward insight and the ability to discover their happiest, and most vital, fulfilled, and authentic selves!

Between the uncertainty in the world, significant life changes, and the everyday stress of “just making it” we all need additional support and care. The demands of just maintaining our lives have increased, while for many, our emotional, social, and financial resources have decreased. Our own stress, depression, and anxiety can be too much to bear. We will assist you by providing space for you to prioritize your unique needs, identifying your strengths and challenges, collaboratively developing a treatment plan, and guiding you through making positive, concrete changes in your life. Our goal is a healthier, more empowered YOU!

George has experience in assisting people recover from depression, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, PTSD, divorce, separation, parenting issues, grief, substance abuse issues, and just the stress that can come from everyday living. He has experience working in numerous settings such as community mental health/substance abuse clinics, hospital emergency rooms, juvenile and adult detention facilities, domestic violence centers, and assisting families in Baltimore City and its surrounding counties.

I am a strong believer that you must treat the individual sitting across from you. This inspires my value of collaboration with clients to create a therapeutic environment that is tailored to their unique needs. I believe that healing needs to occur in a space which is nonjudgmental and supportive while providing warmth and hope, allowing clients to grow and thrive.

Couples Therapy: My practice is welcoming of all couples. The client in couples counseling is the relationship, rather than the conflicts that each person has, which is a more effective way of healing the relationship. The couples therapy I do has three themes: past, present and future.