Location
Offers online therapy
Limiting the social distance and mitigating the spread of COVID-19, all patients are seen via Virtual care at the comfort of their home.
About
Dr. Ngozi M. Okudoh is an experienced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who provides caring, effective, and evidence-based treatments to meet the needs of her patients. She strives to provide empathy and warmth when treating patients. Dr. Okudoh believes that trust in the clinical setting is fostered by taking the adequate time to meet the needs of her patients. She is a major proponent of psychotherapy and well versed in cognitive behavioral therapy. She believes in using psychiatric medications judiciously and when appropriate to treat the patient in the most effective and safe manner.
Dr. Okudoh specializes in treating adults with anxiety, mood disorders, ADHD, depression, thoughts, behaviors, sleep and adjustment difficulties with life transitions. Her expertise in assessment and diagnosis is used to determine when psychotropic medications are appropriate with a focus on efficacy and minimizing side effects.
Please be aware our practice will be reaching out to you once you leave a detailed message including your call back number. Dr. Okudoh accepts the following insurance plans Medicare, Medicaid DC/MD, Aetna, Cigna, Blue cross Blue shield, United Health, Tricare. Dr. Okudoh welcomes self-pay walk-ins.
Call or Email Affect Optimum Behavioral Health, LLC for a free 15 minute consultation now - (240) 439-8443
Finances
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Pay By:
Cash, Check, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- AmeriHealth
- Amerigroup
- Beacon Health Options
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- CareFirst
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Humana
- Magellan
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- TRICARE
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Out of Network
We accept self pay
Email us or call (240) 439-8443 with questions.
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 6 Years
- License: District of Columbia / RN1004337
- School: Drexel University
- Year Graduated: 2019
Additional Credentials
- License No. and State: RN1004337 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- Degree: Chamberlain University / Doctor of Nursing Practice
- Year graduated: 2018
Location
Offers online therapy
Specialties
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
Issues
- Antisocial Personality
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Child
- Developmental Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Grief
- Intellectual Disability
- Medication Management
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Self-Harming
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
Mental Health
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Psychosis
- Thinking Disorders
Client Focus
Ethnicity:
Black and African American and Other Racial or Ethnic Background
I also speak:
Spanish
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
- Preteen
- Children (6 to 10)
- Toddler
Communities
- Blind Allied
- Body Positivity
- Cancer
- Gay Allied
- HIV / AIDS Allied
- Intersex Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex Worker Allied
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Transgender Allied
- Vegan Allied
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Applied Behavioral Analysis
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Existential
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Reality Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Family
- Group
Last Modified: 22 Sep 2021
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