I provide virtual appointments for my clients. Tele health sessions are conducted through Simple Practice, a HIPAA compliant platform. You will receive links and reminders for the scheduled sessions via email. It is important that you establish a private and comfortable setting that has reliable WiFi for us to have a smooth Tele health session.
My office is located at:
4401 East-West Hwy
Suite 203
Bethesda, MD. 20814
This location has on premise parking as well and is within a couple block walk to the Bethesda WMA Metro Stop
My practice does not take insurance.
I will provide you an invoice each month that you will be ablet to submit to your insurance firm for reimbursement.
Out of Network benefits maybe provided by your insurance firm.
Appointments must be canceled within 24 hours in advance or
rescheduled to not incur the full charge of the session.
Venmo or personal check
DC License | LC500078951
MD License | 13930
VA License | 0904012899
NPI | 1316186810
LICSW, LCSW-C
Individual Therapy appointments are 50 minutes. The fee for these appointments is $250 per session.
During our initial meeting we will discuss the problem that you are seeking help with, your goals, and how we will work collaboratively together achieving them.
Sessions will integrate and incorporate a range of approaches according to your unique learning style and needs, including Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Mindfulness, Intensive Short Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Somatic Imagery, and IMAGO relational therapy.
Couples Therapy sessions are 60 minutes. The fee is $275.00.
I am a trained IMAGO couples’ therapist and use this modality to help couples improve relational communication skills that create a safe relational space.
The IMAGO therapy approach focuses on creating emotional safety through structured relational dialogue. This is particularly beneficial for couples where partners have a pattern of becoming emotionally reactive, withdrawn, or polarizing against each. Through this method, couples learn to navigate disagreements, or hurt feelings, and to maintain a sense of empathy and connection. This helps to break negative cycles and strengthen the positive aspects of the relationship.
I recommend couples watch the Ted Talk on the “Power of Connection” by Hedy Schleifer. I often refer to Hedy's metaphor of “Crossing the bridge” in our work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEaERAnIqsY
Parent Coaching and Consultation sessions are 50 minutes. The fee per session is $250.00.
I have over 40 years of experience working with children and families in both private and public-school settings around issues of developmental delays, learning, social, emotional, and behavioral problems.
I have expertise in helping parents navigate evaluation and treatment options for children with impulsivity, challenges with emotional regulation, ADD, and ADHD, and ASD, both at school and at home.
I can also provide parents with pragmatic strategies to communicate and advocate with school staff for eligible supports such as IEP and 504 plans. I also provide parent / child relationship and attachment interventions, such as Positive Discipline, Floor Time, or Filial Therapy, that can help repair or establish healthy secure relational attachment.
I provide therapy to Children and Adolescents ages 5 to 18. The fee per 50-minute session is $250.00.
I do not see children under the age of 12 virtually.
Initial intake is with a parent and periodic follow up intermittent sessions with parents is required.
Parents may be included in some of the sessions. With younger children, I often use a Play Therapy or Sand Tray Therapy Approach.
With older children and adolescents, I draw from CBT, Solution Focused, and Strengths-Based approaches.
I strive to support the child or adolescent to identify and express their emotional needs appropriately, and scaffold them them to develop skills for emotional regulaton, self-actualization, self-advocacy, self-care, and compassionate self-acceptance.
I provide therapy to young adults. The fee is $250.00 per 50 minute session.
The developmental period of young adulthood can be challenging for many in the transition to greater autonomy and independence.
I worked at a college counseling center and am familiar with the challenges many young adults experience in developing skills for independent self-care, self-advocacy, time management, and mature goal setting.
I help young people to identify goals, values, strengths and identify counter
productive habits that are working against their goals.
I engage with clients in a relational multi modal approach to address anxiety, depression, and to increase emotional resiliency and positive self regard.
I integrate psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral approaches to build resiliency, flexible thinking, greater awareness of self, and increased capacity to navigate challenging situations, relationships, and difficult emotions.
My style is warm and engaging.
Anxiety and self-esteem challenges often accompany ADHD. I support my clients to have a positive sense of self apart from their neurological challenges.
We work to challenge and rewrite harmful negative self depreciating narratives, and address pragmatic challenges using strengths with accurate self-understanding, self-compassion and strategies for resiliency. I have over 40 years of experience supporting children, parents, and adults to navigate the diagnosis and treatment of of ADHD with positive self regard across school, relational, and work settings.
I have been a student and teacher of mindfulness for over 25 years.
I bring practices of mindfulness into sessions as a tool that can can be used in everyday moments throughout a day to support regulation of emotions, reduce anxiety, and help maintain resiliency when confronting stress.
This practice has been found to bring positive long-term positive results in both symptom reduction, greater capacity to stay focused, and increased overall emotional regulation.
EMDR is highly effective in addressing emotionally charged memories and traumatic past experiences that may continue to negatively overlay and impact present emotional experiences such as PTSD. EMDR is also effective for addressing relational and childhood trauma that is caused by experiences where emotional needs for safety, security, and acceptance were not met.
EMDR can also be used to address a recent traumatic event, complex trauma, or anxiety related to an anticipated future concern. The intervention facilitates gaining insight into and reprocessing negatively charged memories and associations to achieve a sense of greater psychological freedom.
ISTDP is a dynamic insight-oriented approach that supports gaining awareness of counterproductive habits, emotional avoidance, or defensive patterns that create anxiety and compromise an integrated authentic sense of self.
This approach in very interactive and helps a client challenge self-defeating patterns by increasing capacity to tolerate and face difficult internal emotions.
I have 30 years of experience working with parents and children to navigate developmental, social, and behavioral challenges in school and home settings.
I have a master’s degree in special education and served as a Developmental Specialist in Montgomery County helping identify and address developmental differences in young children.
I am trained in relational attachment-based interventions, trauma focused approaches, as well as in structured behavioral interventions.
Internal Family Systems, IFS, is an approach that integrates family systems theory with exploration of "parts" that exist within an individual. The parts are all seen to have functions in service of supporting the self system. We work to differentiate and "unblend" authentic self energy and capacity from parts that can take over or limit access to authentic self energy. This is an experiential and insight oriented modality.
IMAGO is a structured relational approach that helps couples learn a functional approach to communicate and listen in ways that create and maintains a safe relational space and connection.
The practice promotes increasing capacity for sustained presence with attuned listening, perspective taking, and cultivating empathy.
Couples leave a session with a dialogue structure to practice at home that includes creating routines for sharing of appreciations as well as communicating about difficult emotions and problems.
Insight and understanding of how each individual partner’s unique vulnerabilities is also brought into the work.
I am a highly experienced play therapist.
Play is the language of children. Play Therapy allows children to safely express and communicate feelings of anxiety and difficult emotional content.
Themes the child expresses in play therapy allows the therapist insight into the child’s inner experiences as well as informs the therapist on additional supports and interventions that can be shared with parents and significant adults.
The therapy also allows the child to gain awareness of and process difficult emotions in a safe relational space.
I use both directed and non-directed play therapy to address trauma, divorce, adjustment issues, anxiety, separation issues, and negative self-esteem.
Sand Therapy is used with both children and adults as a safe projective approach to expressing emotional content.
The client selects evocative miniatures to place in a contained sand tray. The symbolic expression and use of metaphor allow a client to protect and to control what they wish to express with the therapist.
The therapist engages with the client regarding the content, story, themes, or emotions at the level that client is ready to share.
The work can be narrative or non-narrative. The expressions may range from literal depiction of a scene, or symbolic representation.
This modality is especially helpful with trauma, children, and clients who are less able or ready to directly verbalize their feelings or difficult content.
I often incorporate Somatic Imagery to help clients connect to and access a sense of physical safety, connectedness, and restore a physical sense of grounding.
Imagery work is effective in helping clients become aware of both internal and external supportive resources as well as gently address internal vulnerabilities. Clients are invited to turn their attention inward and experience a guided image that will include noticing of physical sensations and sensory experience.
The images are designed to promote healing, grounding, self-acceptance, courage, and reduce feelings of aloneness.
The client and therapist may discuss the client’s experiences during or after the imagery experience.
Clients often discover a particular image that can become an internal resource they can access support emotional regulation and grounding.