Best Life Behavioral Health
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Fees
- Individual Sessions $230
- Couple Sessions $230
- Pay by American Express, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Maryland / 04779 Samantha Rodman Whiten
- In Practice for 15 Years
- Attended University of Maryland, PhD, Graduated 2009
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Self Esteem
- Sex Therapy
- Relationship Issues
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families,
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Highly Sensitive People, high achievers
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Video Game Addiction
- Women's Issues
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Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- approaches to address your needs.
- Attachment-based
- Brainspotting
- EMDR
- Existential
- Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Trauma Focused
- We are integrative and borrow from different
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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills
Do you struggle with mood regulation, calming down, and tolerating sad or difficult situations? This ONLINE DBT group is targeted towards adults (25+) and is capped at 10 members. Meredith Futernick, LPC will teach you the 4 primary DBT skills: Mindfulness, the practice of being fully aware and present; Distress Tolerance, how to tolerate painful emotions; Interpersonal Effectiveness: how to ask for your needs to be met while maintaining close connections with others; and Emotion Regulation, how to change emotions when you want to. Helpful homework will be assigned!
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Best Life Behavioral Health (Online)
North Bethesda, MD 20852
Rekindling Your Relationship Group
Feeling a bit disconnected from your partner doesn't mean your relationship is doomed. If your relationship has been on the back burner for too long, there are many simple things you can do to reconnect emotionally and physically. This 8-week virtual group, run by sexologist & intimacy coach Heather Ray, will give you tips to help you get that spark back! Topics include intimacy, monogamy, touch, mental and physical components of romance, and biological impacts on your relationship. The group runs Sept. 19 - Dec. 7. Cost is $250 for all 8 sessions, paid up front. Email us to enroll!
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Best Life Behavioral Health (online)
11140 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
Adult Children Of Dysfunctional Families
Did your parent(s) struggle with depression, substance abuse, anxiety, traits of narcissism or BPD, and/or an unhappy marriage? Do you feel like your upbringing? stopped you from learning what "normal" is? Are you sometimes disappointed in yourself that you can't just "get over" your experiences as a kid? Do you still struggle with family members, and/or have you gone low/no contact? Does your partner sometimes not understand why some things are so hard for you? Then this telehealth coaching group is for you!
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Best Life Behavioral Health
Rockville, MD 20852
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