
Jill Savege Scharff
Psychiatrist, MD, FABP
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6612 Kennedy Drive, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Let's Connect (240) 635-8818

I offer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and I do not prescribe medication. Together, we focus on understanding your symptoms and mastering your upsetting impulses, conflicts, and relationships. You will learn to modify the way that early relationships affect current relationships. You’ll make links between your thoughts, feelings, and experiences now and in the past, decode your dreams, recognize your ways of protecting yourself, and acknowledge how you have been held back so you can then move forward in career, friendship, and love.
Certified in psychoanalysis for children and adults, I am internationally well-known for psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples and families, individual adults and children. Author, editor, and teacher, I give supervision and consultation for therapists. I offer psychoanalysis, assessment, consultation, and therapy: no medications.
I provide an atmosphere of privacy, safety, and acceptance. You will be free to say whatever is on your mind, eventually including things that you had hidden even from yourself. Together we will face your anxiety and depression and find alternative ways of dealing with them, which frees your energy for creative work, friendships, and pleasure in intimacy.
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Finances
Fees
- Standard Visit $400
Payment Methods
ACH Bank transfer, Check, Mastercard, Visa, WireQualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today License: Maryland / D18814 Jill Savege Scharff
- In Practice for 49 years
- University of Aberdeen Medical School , MB. ChB , Graduated 1967
- Board Certification by Psychiatry and Neurology, Child Psychiatry
- Certificate from American Board of Psychoanalysis FABP / 2015
- Certificate from American Psychoanalytic Association Adult and Child Psychoanalysis / 1990
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Marital and Premarital
- Family Conflict
- Child
Expertise
- Bisexual
- Cancer
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Mood Disorders
- Peer Relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sex Therapy
- Stress
- Thinking Disorders
- Veterans
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Toddler ,
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Gay Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied
Ethnicity
Asian ,
Hispanic and Latino
Age
Toddler ,
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Gay Allied ,
Racial Justice Allied
Ethnicity
Asian ,
Hispanic and Latino
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Family / Marital
- object relations branch of psychoanalysis
- Play Therapy
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic