Women's Issues Therapists in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC

I provide individual therapy to adults hoping to better understand themselves and their unique experiences. I use a collaborative approach to highlight strength and resilience while assisting in learning to manage depression, anxiety, body image dissatisfaction, racial trauma, and interpersonal relationship difficulties. I specialize in working with women's issues , religion/spirituality, racial/ethnic identity, sexual orientation identity development, gender identity and experiences of people of color. The associates in my clinical practice reflect diversity and commitment to cultural humility and awareness.

With over 14 years working in the mental health field, Sarah Nealy has her second Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and works as a Mental Health Therapist and Adjunct Professor at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. With a person-centered, emotion-focused approach aimed at finding solutions, healing trauma, building resilience, improving interpersonal relationships, connecting the mind and body, and working through triggers and past pain, Sarah wants her clients to feel heard, understood, and valued in the therapeutic space and in their lives.

Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience. We are a collective of therapists with a wide range of specialties. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs. We make appointments easy, offering evenings and weekends and flexibility for creative professionals who can't make the same time each week.

Welcome! My primary goal as a therapist is to help you feel safe and comfortable exploring your concerns and challenges with me. Therapy can be both a difficult and rewarding endeavor, and I feel privileged to get to share with my clients in their fears, hopes, and joys. My hope is to help you feel comfortable and understood in delving into your own life and identifying areas where you wish for change. In my practice, I integrate elements of mindfulness, humanistic, and psychodynamic therapies to help you find new ways to relate to difficult emotions.

Hello! I work with clients seeking support with stress management, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and navigating grief and/or transition. By offering a safe space to reflect, our sessions focus on helping you gain insight, reduce stress and anxiety, set goals, create change, and highlight strengths. We collaborate to deepen self-understanding and self-compassion, expand coping skills, and move you forward. Through my work I've been called upon as a wellness expert for Cosmopolitan, US News & World Report, Huffington Post, books, podcasts, TV, and radio.

My highest priority as a therapist is to cultivate a space for you as a client to feel safe, supported, and unconditionally accepted, as this lays the foundation for exploration and growth. My approach is trauma and person-centered, while incorporating cognitive-behavioral and sensorimotor interventions. This allows for us to focus on the interplay between your thought life, emotional experiences, and behavioral reactions, and target what solutions are most effective and appropriate for you. I also incorporate mindfulness techniques to ground you both in the here and now of the session.

If you’re considering therapy, you may be in a time of stress or transition. My goal is to ease your access to psychotherapy by providing you or your family with confidential online therapy, from the comfort of your own home. While I work with clients of all ages in any stage of life, my specialties include teen and family LGBTQIA issues, prenatal/postpartum challenges, parenting children with special needs and working with women who feel “stuck.”

You lay in bed, replaying the day’s events on a loop. Dissecting every interaction, examining every mistake under a microscope. On the surface, it looks like you have it all together, but deep-down you feel like an imposter, struggling to manage your emotions. Working so hard to be perfect and please everyone, never feeling like you're good enough or doing enough. You can’t sleep. You're snapping more easily, numbing or zoning out to relax, feeling unfulfilled and exhausted. You’ve turned into someone you don’t like or recognize. You want desperately to make some change, but you don’t know how.

Whether you're facing a difficult transition, struggling with loss, or simply feeling stuck in your life, I will work with you from a collaborative, non-judgmental place. Many clients benefit from exploring the roots of their emotional and behavioral difficulties, while others prefer a more focused, goal-oriented approach; my aim is to find the balance that is right for you. Together, I hope we can move toward alternative solutions and possibilities in your life.

I work with individuals at many points in their journey, I support the right to self determination but also work to motivate my clients towards a greater wellbeing. I employ a solution focused/strengths based, psychodynamic, and logotherapeutic approach. I believe therapy is driven by the client, and I tailor my approach to each individual.

Seeking out therapy is the first step in your journey to healing and understanding. Through therapy, I will work with you to address present challenges, identify tools to navigate current and future difficult situations, and make changes to patterns of behavior or thoughts that are causing distress. Throughout our work, we will focus on broadening and deepening your awareness of yourself.   The foundation of successful therapeutic work is the therapist-client relationship. I understand the importance of this relationship, and I strive to establish a collaborative working connection filled with warmth and understanding.

Harvard-trained, experienced psychotherapist with broad interests/skills. Long-term and brief therapy available. Psychological assessment/evaluation. Supervision/Consultation. Member, Harvard University Healthcare Professionals Group. Member, American Psychology Association. Reduced fee for military.

Hi! I am Maria. Are you feeling overwhelmed, confused, alone, or that no one can possibly understand what you are going through? Do you struggle with relationships, in particular the consequences of those relationships? Are you feeling stressed by a pregnancy, communicating with your significant other, decisions around birth control and parenting, and all that's in between?

Welcome! Starting therapy takes courage. My job is to use my knowledge and skills to enhance what's already working for you. Areas of focus: Work stress, worries, sleep issues, health challenges, grief and loss, parenting support, guilt and shame, career and life transitions. My work emphasizes mind/body awareness to create health and healing. I've worked with clients who are completely new to therapy and those who have tried working with different therapists. My intention is to help you heal and rediscover your voice.