Location
(Payment & COPAY Required on Day of Appointment)
FREE Parking: 6209 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20852
About

Finances
- Cost per Session: $140 - $270
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Anthem
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- CareFirst
- CareFirst HMO
- CareFirst PPO
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Federal Government PPO
- GHMSI Participating Provider Network
- MultiPlan
- Offer sliding scale if needed.
- Regional Participating Preferred Provider Network
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 14 Years
- License: Maryland / LC4078
- School: Johns Hopkins University - Licensed in MD & W, DC
- Year Graduated: 2009
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Board Approved Clinical Supervisor, BOPC / ACS
- Certificate Date: 2013
- Certificate: MS, Johns Hopkins University / Post MS, At-Risk Counseling
- Certificate Date: 2009
Endorsements
Authentically U Counseling, LLC - Marilyn Spenadel's Groups
NOW Mind/Body/Spiritual Awareness & Growth
OPEN ONGOING GROUP -- FINDING PEACE & CONNECTIVENESS in these uncertain, very stressful times. This will be a Holistic therapeutic process oriented, skill-building, and ongoing support GROUP. We will discuss and practice how to become aware of mind/body and spiritual awareness, stressors, acceptance, and ways to grow. You will learn how to "Pause Daily" to compassionately nurture you and your authentic-self first to find ongoing peace and strength. You can call or write me to find out more about this group. SIGN UP at www.authenticallyu.org soon. You can ALWAYS choose a perception and way of life to help you.
Perception is Everything-Changing Mistaken Beliefs
www.authenticallyu.org- For adults or adolescents depending on the demographics of the group. Are your perceptions helping you or hurting you? Learn where your beliefs about yourself have come from and how to change any mistaken beliefs from your past, that are keeping you stuck, into positive beliefs to help you move on and grow. You can learn to re-write your story and move in a positive direction with daily affirmations, EFT/Tapping and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) energy healing. Whatever you focus on grows; so why not focus on the positive?
NEW Holistic Spiritual Supervision & Support Group
Started 6/2020 Bi-WEEKLY Supervision Group or HALF A DAY Experiential WORKSHOP: I Offer 4 CEU's for "Stress Management & Resiliency Workshop to Prevent Clinician and/or Client Burnout," as requested. Learn about the mind/body connection to stress, where it settles in your body, and how to breathe out the stress of old feelings and current triggers. Practice many stress management techniques; Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), EFT/Tapping, deep breathing, meditation/mindfulness, and guided imagery to create your "Resiliency Routine (C)." Since stress accumulates and can lead to psychosomatic illness, learn techniques to practice daily to enhance your mindful calmness.
Location
(Payment & COPAY Required on Day of Appointment)
FREE Parking: 6209 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20852
Specialties
- Spirituality
- Self Esteem
- Relationship Issues
Issues
- ADHD
- Addiction
- Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) Expert
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infertility
- Intellectual Disability
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- PHOBIAS, Avoidance, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Thoughts
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- School Issues
- Self-Harming
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Elderly Persons Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Thinking Disorders
Sexuality
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
Communities
- Aviation Professionals
- Body Positivity
- Cancer
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Single Mother
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Advanced Integrative Therapy, Holistic,Logotherapy
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Coaching
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Energy Psychology
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Family / Marital
- Gestalt
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- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Person-Centered
- Positive Psychology
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Schema Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family