Video Game Addiction Therapists in Rockville, MD

Dr. Spector is a licensed psychologist with expertise in helping children, adolescents, and adults in individual and group therapy. Dr. Spector has a comprehensive knowledge of video games, computer games, smart phones, and the Internet. He has helped many clients change how they use technology. Media appearances focusing on the healthy use of technology include: Good Morning America, NPR's the Diane Rehm Show, NBC4 and Fox5 News, Matter of Fact with Solidad O'Brien, Bethesda Magazine, and Voice of America.

Are you ready to get real about your addiction? You have come to the right place. I offer effective and confidential help for individuals who feel trapped by addictive behavior. I am a recovered addict as well as a licensed counselor. I combine decades of personal experience in recovery and helping others in recovery with a master's degree in counseling.

We believe treatment should provide lasting benefits, lasting well beyond your time in therapy. As such, we believe successful therapy comes from fully understanding your goals and challenges. Your therapist can work with you to develop tangible skills, insight, and focused changes that can support you through a lifetime of positive growth and healing. We have expertise in helping individuals, couples, and families across the life-span address depression, anxiety, severe stress, PTSD, and prolonged grief. In addition, individual therapy can assist you in dealing with intimacy problems, relational concerns, anger issues, and poor-self esteem. We offer cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused treatment, and insight-oriented relational therapy depending on your needs and desires. Following an initial assessment with your therapist, you will help develop a treatment plan based on your goals

ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. IN-PERSON AVAILABLE. Just as each individual is unique, I see treatment as unique as well, meaning no single therapy approach can claim to be the solution to every individual that walks through my door. For as unique as you are, together we can make sense of your concerns, work towards your goals, and the quality of life you want and deserve.

I enjoy challenges and diverse people and helping those who are in difficult situations. I specialize in responding to crises, trauma and workplace problems. So ideally I approach each situation, person or group with an open mind and a non-anxious-presence. I strive to provide that same level of confidence and trust to people in therapy. My strength is understanding complex systems (the big picture) and finding the little steps to improve things. If you have the courage to change; I’ll work to help you make your life easier using a program of change or the path that works best for you.

Feeling lost, stuck, hopeless, and stressed out? Are you finding yourself feeling overwhelmed with fear and self-judgement? Are you having relationship issues? My main goal in therapy is to help you to heal as quickly as possible so you can resume your healthy & fulfilling life. I am warm, compassionate, caring, genuine, and understanding... yet direct and helpful. I will guide you through the process of healing, working closely with you during every step of your treatment. As long as you are willing to change, we can work together to achieve the best possible results.

TELETHERAPY AND IN-OFFICE APPOINTMENTS with experienced psychotherapists who are licensed at the highest level of their profession. We accept mayor insurance plans and work with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, Our clinicians reflect the full diversity of our community. We provide a safe and nonjudgmental environment that enables our clients to work towards solutions, develop coping skills and have a better understanding of the issues that interfere with self-esteem and a sense of well being.

Dr. Joan Moore (she/her) has a passion for helping people navigate the complexities of life and strives to assist them with reaching their personal goals. Joan uses a cognitive behavioral, trauma-informed, and integrative approach to help individuals and couples explore their thoughts, emotions, and life experiences. Joan is particularly interested in working with survivors of trauma, adults, couples, adolescents and their families, and individuals from marginalized communities. She takes a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach, recognizing the impact systemic oppression and stigma can have on a person's wellbeing.

Has therapy been a waste of time before? At Best Life, run by Dr. Samantha Whiten (Dr. Psych Mom), we start to tackle your issues immediately, so you can start living the life you deserve! Jessica Jeffers works with mood issues and couples. Vicktoria Molokin works with life transitions and anxiety. Lindsey Weekley works with parenting, anger, bipolar, and more. Meredith Futernick uses brainspotting and DBT. Kat Defilippi works with mood issues, couples, anxiety, and career. Danielle Goldberg works with trauma, depression, and parenting. Stefanie Rider does trauma and EMDR. We also offer life, career, dating, and sex coaching!

Having completed fellowships in Child & Adolescent Psychodynamic Therapy, and Adult Psychodynamic Therapy, I work primarily with children, adolescents, and young adults. I work from a base of psychodynamic and interpersonal talk therapy (in the form of play with younger children) to build awareness and to work through internal distress or conflict. I augment this work by using third-wave CBT modalities, which draw on mindfulness strategies and skills, in order to use ‘achieved awareness and understanding’, to live in new, more balanced, skillful, and regulated ways.

Welcome to Empathy First Therapeutic Services. I started this clinic as a way to provide support and guide clients through difficult times utilizing an empathy forward approach. I value providing a safe place for others to express themselves without judgment and with pure empathy and understanding. I have worked as an outpatient therapist for 10 years working with clients from all demographics and walks of life. As an outpatient therapist I have primarily worked with males ages 6-80 but welcome all!

The mere thought of therapy can be daunting, while in actuality most of us ask for advice from those around us everyday. What makes therapy different from asking a coworker, friend or relative for their advice, is my approach to therapy. I believe therapy is allowing you the space to work out issues, the space to feel free and learn about yourself in new ways. Therapy is looking at your thoughts and behavioral patterns for maximum effectiveness to your desired goals. My approach is best summed up in a quote by Benjamin Franklin, “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”

Because no two patients are alike, therapy should be tailored to each patient, rather than trying to treat everyone with the same theoretical approach. I believe that a therapist’s job is to guide the patient as they learn to change the behaviors and thinking styles that may have once been helpful, but are now getting in their way. Most importantly, I believe it is a therapist's job to teach their patients the skills necessary to eventually function independent of their therapist, allowing them to eventually leave therapy instead of being stuck with having weekly sessions for the rest of their lives!

I work with individuals to become their best selves, drawing upon existential frameworks and humanistic principles, as well as couples who would like to become closer and solve significant issues in their relationships. With couples, I utilize attachment theory along with learnings from the Gottman method in order to help partners more deeply connect with one another. For those couples working to determine the future of their relationship, I will soon be offering discernment counseling. I also enjoy working with teenagers who are gifted, or twice exceptional.

Late afternoon and evening appointments are available now! Are you feeling anxious? Lonely? Depressed, stuck and scared to move forward? Having difficulties communicating your emotions and needs? Struggling with relationships? We can help you to find inner peace and confidence! Our clinicians utilize warm, and compassionate approaches to serve your needs. We provide services in person as well as via telehealth. Please email/call us for availability.

TELETHERAPY AVAILABLE. I enjoy working with adolescents, adults, couples, children and families who are facing a challenge and are looking for support. My experience in clinical practice allows me to assist with goal directed activities and work to achieve significant changes. A large part of my work is helping clients manage their anxiety or depression and to take concrete steps towards a more positive future. We work together to accomplish goals that the client has chosen to gain a greater understanding of themselves and their behaviors.We focus on changing relationship dynamics and learning new coping skills.

There is nothing like being listened to and understood on a deep level, with genuine interest, unconditional positive regard, congruence, empathy and acceptance. This is what I strive to offer in therapy, as we explore together your hopes and dreams, your losses and regrets, your longings and fears. Many people come to therapy to free themselves from self-defeating patterns, maladaptive behaviors and the legacy of past traumas, so they can be more truly themselves in relation to others and live with greater satisfaction and meaning.

Are you struggling with depression, anxiety, biploar disorder, or have experienced trauma? Have you self-medicated in an attempt to manage your emotions? You can expect supportive, practical help in overcoming trauma, the treatment of mood disorders, and recovery from substance abuse and behavioral addictions. Therapy will be tailored to your needs, using the tools that work best for you, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Restructuring (a core technique from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and learning stress reduction skills. In therapy, you can build lasting alternatives to unhealthy family dynamics.

I have worked for 13+ years helping others understand themselves in order to find freedom, to live a meaningful life defined by themselves. I specialize working with men struggling to find their place in the current society that has left them behind. Most treatment has not adequately been developed deal with men’s issues, as evidence by the large but silent mental health crisis within men and boys. Men’s emotional expression such as anger and irritability are often pathologized and punished, opposed to being heard for the underlying cause and I look to change that.