Location
I am only seeing patients on line for now. I monitor COVID-19 as Co-Chair, American Psychoanalytic Assoiation's COVID Advisory Committee
About
I'm a psychoanalyst who works with adults, children, couples and families, and have a subspecialty in sexual difficulties. I have taught and written about issues across many areas of the life cycle, and am probably best known for my treatment and teaching about couple and family difficulties. Although I am a psychiatrist, I only prescribe for patients I treat with psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic therapies work in depth to help people with their difficulties and life crises, even if the actual work has a short term focus on a life crisis. I help people to look at the underlying vulnerabilities that make a current crisis or life situation more difficult than it otherwise has to be.
The treatment relationship between therapist and patient is at the heart of the helping process. I view each patient, couple or family as unique and requiring understanding from inside their situation. So I want to hear from that person about their experience in the difficulty that brings them to ask for help.
Call or Email David E Scharff for a free 15 minute consultation now - (240) 209-9657
Finances
- Session Fee: $500 per session
- Couples Session Fee: $500 per session
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Out of Network
Patients deal directly with insurance companies. I will fill out forms but not collect directly from insurance.
Email me or call (240) 209-9657 with questions.
Qualifications
- License: Maryland / MD D0018541
Location
Specialties
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Marital and Premarital
Issues
- Adoption
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Child
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Racial Identity
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sex Therapy
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Video Game Addiction
Mental Health
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Ethnicity:
Asian and Black and African American
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
- Preteen
- Children (6 to 10)
- Toddler
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Family / Marital
- Play Therapy
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Teletherapy
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family
Last Modified: 30 Nov 2022
(240) 209-9657