Gottman Method Therapists in 21740
I am a Certified Trauma Professional and a Certified Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Counselor.
Now accepting AETNA clients! Accepting Clients for In Person (or virtual) Therapy in Hagerstown MD! Hello, my name is Kimberly and I am a mental health therapist who is committed to helping clients learn how to overcome obstacles and become the hero of their own story. I am looking forward to helping you discover your most authentic self. Let’s partner together to help you find the healing you deserve!
I am a Certified Trauma Professional and a Certified Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Counselor.
Now accepting AETNA clients! Accepting Clients for In Person (or virtual) Therapy in Hagerstown MD! Hello, my name is Kimberly and I am a mental health therapist who is committed to helping clients learn how to overcome obstacles and become the hero of their own story. I am looking forward to helping you discover your most authentic self. Let’s partner together to help you find the healing you deserve!
Accepting Clients! Children, Adults, Psych Meds!
Licensed Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Do you find yourself struggling with anxious thoughts? Are the trials of everyday life trapping you in a cycle of depression? Maybe you are having a hard time processing a traumatic event that has happened to you? You are not alone, and you do not have to continue struggling. I will provide a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive atmosphere that allows you to express yourself openly and freely. As a client of mine, I will help you work through whatever it is you are currently experiencing and help you work towards a happier tomorrow. Due to availability, assigned professional may differ from professional pictures.
Do you find yourself struggling with anxious thoughts? Are the trials of everyday life trapping you in a cycle of depression? Maybe you are having a hard time processing a traumatic event that has happened to you? You are not alone, and you do not have to continue struggling. I will provide a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive atmosphere that allows you to express yourself openly and freely. As a client of mine, I will help you work through whatever it is you are currently experiencing and help you work towards a happier tomorrow. Due to availability, assigned professional may differ from professional pictures.
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Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, #1, in, MD, 5 Star, Rating
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
As your therapist, I can provide you with a dedicated space to explore and process your emotions, helping you gain clarity, understanding, and relief. By working through challenges, you can experience increased emotional resilience, improved self-regulation, and a greater sense of inner peace. Through therapy, I will help you develop and refine effective coping strategies to navigate life's stressors. Together, we will identify healthier ways of managing difficult emotions, handling conflicts, and responding to challenging situations.
As your therapist, I can provide you with a dedicated space to explore and process your emotions, helping you gain clarity, understanding, and relief. By working through challenges, you can experience increased emotional resilience, improved self-regulation, and a greater sense of inner peace. Through therapy, I will help you develop and refine effective coping strategies to navigate life's stressors. Together, we will identify healthier ways of managing difficult emotions, handling conflicts, and responding to challenging situations.
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Counselor, #1, MD, 5, Star, Rating
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
As a therapist, I provide a safe and supportive space where you can explore your concerns and find healing and growth. I offer expertise in treating a wide range of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression and trauma. I tailor the therapy to your unique needs, using a personalized and holistic approach that takes into account your individual circumstances and strengths. I prioritize your well-being and work with you to develop practical strategies and tools that can be applied to real life situations, enabling lasting change. Together, we will put you on a path toward healing
As a therapist, I provide a safe and supportive space where you can explore your concerns and find healing and growth. I offer expertise in treating a wide range of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression and trauma. I tailor the therapy to your unique needs, using a personalized and holistic approach that takes into account your individual circumstances and strengths. I prioritize your well-being and work with you to develop practical strategies and tools that can be applied to real life situations, enabling lasting change. Together, we will put you on a path toward healing
Shannon Shoemaker
Counselor, PhD, LCPC(MD, LMHC(MA, LPC(VA), NCC
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Newly licensed in Virginia! Fall is the perfect season for positive change. Often we are successful in one area of our life but feel that another area is not going as well as we would like. Finding balance can leave us feeling overwhelmed. While we are all the experts on our own lives, sometimes we need the perspective of another person in order to see ourselves more clearly. Helping to better understand yourself and the strengths you already possess can lead to positive change which ideally will result in living a more authentic, balanced, and enriching life. I offer a compassionate, non-judgmental space to explore your challenges.
Newly licensed in Virginia! Fall is the perfect season for positive change. Often we are successful in one area of our life but feel that another area is not going as well as we would like. Finding balance can leave us feeling overwhelmed. While we are all the experts on our own lives, sometimes we need the perspective of another person in order to see ourselves more clearly. Helping to better understand yourself and the strengths you already possess can lead to positive change which ideally will result in living a more authentic, balanced, and enriching life. I offer a compassionate, non-judgmental space to explore your challenges.
Dagenhart Health And Wellness, LLC
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, MSN, PMHNP, LCPC, CGT
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740
Our providers are experienced in a broad range of mental health issues and use a variety of therapeutic approaches to compliment the unique needs of each individual. We believe that health comes from treating the whole person. Therefore, we seek to integrate emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions into the healing process. Our providers will tailor treatment to help meet your specific needs and not to a specific theoretical approach. Our providers will help guide you through the exploration of values, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings to promote increased awareness of self and greater sense of well-being.
Our providers are experienced in a broad range of mental health issues and use a variety of therapeutic approaches to compliment the unique needs of each individual. We believe that health comes from treating the whole person. Therefore, we seek to integrate emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions into the healing process. Our providers will tailor treatment to help meet your specific needs and not to a specific theoretical approach. Our providers will help guide you through the exploration of values, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings to promote increased awareness of self and greater sense of well-being.
I have 10+ years of experience helping people with trauma, anxiety, substance issues, and relationship challenges. I take a trauma-informed approach by focusing on the way past experiences cause problems in the present. I use a combination of open discussion and focused goal-setting to help those I work with achieve mental wellness. I use EMDR Therapy to help resolve past problems that lead to overwhelming emotions and reduce persistent negative feelings about yourself.
I have 10+ years of experience helping people with trauma, anxiety, substance issues, and relationship challenges. I take a trauma-informed approach by focusing on the way past experiences cause problems in the present. I use a combination of open discussion and focused goal-setting to help those I work with achieve mental wellness. I use EMDR Therapy to help resolve past problems that lead to overwhelming emotions and reduce persistent negative feelings about yourself.
Susan Stewart
Marriage & Family Therapist, MDiv, CCTP-II, CIMHP, LMFT, AAMFT-S
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Hagerstown, MD 21740
Waitlist for new clients
You work in high stress, high burnout fields. You love being the strong one, the one others rely on, pushing through everything. But you're wondering how much longer you can hold it together when it feels like your relationships, your life, are coming apart. You may feel like a failure, asking for help yourself. But you're not willing to give up on your goals for your life and those relationships that are so important.
You work in high stress, high burnout fields. You love being the strong one, the one others rely on, pushing through everything. But you're wondering how much longer you can hold it together when it feels like your relationships, your life, are coming apart. You may feel like a failure, asking for help yourself. But you're not willing to give up on your goals for your life and those relationships that are so important.
Michelle Smith
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Hagerstown, MD 21740
I have a strong passion for working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I work to restore balance to my clients; helping them use their strengths to move forward, providing support and guidance, and finding clarity in obstacles they face in life. Additionally, I work with parents who are struggling to understand their child’s challenging behavior. I use the Nurtured Heart Approach to strengthen the parent-child relationship for the promotion of healing, forward momentum, and relationship growth.
I have a strong passion for working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I work to restore balance to my clients; helping them use their strengths to move forward, providing support and guidance, and finding clarity in obstacles they face in life. Additionally, I work with parents who are struggling to understand their child’s challenging behavior. I use the Nurtured Heart Approach to strengthen the parent-child relationship for the promotion of healing, forward momentum, and relationship growth.
Heather Scarbrough
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA, NCC, CSOTP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Hagerstown, MD 21740
We all get stuck sometimes, whether it be with making an important decision or simply in unhealthy thought and behavioral patterns. I enjoy helping individuals, couples and families recognize unhelpful patterns and work towards becoming "unstuck." People often bear the symptoms of what is going on around them and these symptoms become visible as depression, anxiety, etc. I enjoy helping individuals, couples and families to become the best that they can be and to have the best relationships that they can have.
We all get stuck sometimes, whether it be with making an important decision or simply in unhealthy thought and behavioral patterns. I enjoy helping individuals, couples and families recognize unhelpful patterns and work towards becoming "unstuck." People often bear the symptoms of what is going on around them and these symptoms become visible as depression, anxiety, etc. I enjoy helping individuals, couples and families to become the best that they can be and to have the best relationships that they can have.
I am a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) with years of experience working with teens, couples, and adults who are struggling with anxiety, anger issues, parenting difficulties, depression, chronic stress, relationship issues, and pregnancy-related concerns. My ideal client is motivated to learn more about themselves, open to self-reflection, willing to engage in the therapeutic process, and committed to making positive changes in their lives. Additionally, they are motivated to work on their issues, have good communication skills, and are willing to be honest and vulnerable in the therapeutic relationship.
I am a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) with years of experience working with teens, couples, and adults who are struggling with anxiety, anger issues, parenting difficulties, depression, chronic stress, relationship issues, and pregnancy-related concerns. My ideal client is motivated to learn more about themselves, open to self-reflection, willing to engage in the therapeutic process, and committed to making positive changes in their lives. Additionally, they are motivated to work on their issues, have good communication skills, and are willing to be honest and vulnerable in the therapeutic relationship.
Chidiomimi Chime
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Greetings! My name is Nneka Chime, and I am excited to possibly work with you. Some therapeutic approaches I like to utilize include family systems, Adlerian theories, person centered theories, and NTU therapeutic approach. I typically work from an eclectic, integrated, person centered approach. Collaborating with clients to help understand their needs and what therapeutic approach would best fit their personal goals. I aim to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can unpack, process and heal.
Greetings! My name is Nneka Chime, and I am excited to possibly work with you. Some therapeutic approaches I like to utilize include family systems, Adlerian theories, person centered theories, and NTU therapeutic approach. I typically work from an eclectic, integrated, person centered approach. Collaborating with clients to help understand their needs and what therapeutic approach would best fit their personal goals. I aim to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can unpack, process and heal.
Sarah Campbell
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Do you feel out of balance or stuck in your life? Do worries and self-doubt bring you down? Do you feel like you are not your best self anymore? I am here to meet you wherever you are in your journey, to provide support in a safe, non-judgmental space for healing, & to remind you of your inner strength. Through a mixture of therapy approaches including but not limited to: CBT; Client-Centered; Trauma-informed and DBT, I believe that I can help you to discover traumas & limiting beliefs that are holding you back, and move you to a place of self-acceptance, healing, action, and empowerment.
Do you feel out of balance or stuck in your life? Do worries and self-doubt bring you down? Do you feel like you are not your best self anymore? I am here to meet you wherever you are in your journey, to provide support in a safe, non-judgmental space for healing, & to remind you of your inner strength. Through a mixture of therapy approaches including but not limited to: CBT; Client-Centered; Trauma-informed and DBT, I believe that I can help you to discover traumas & limiting beliefs that are holding you back, and move you to a place of self-acceptance, healing, action, and empowerment.
Bridget Dunkel
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Mental health challenges, relationship difficulties, past traumatic experiences, and life transitions can impact your well-being significantly, especially if you don't believe that you can navigate these difficulties alone. We can work together to discover what will help you thrive in your life and cope with challenges that come your way. As a therapist, I have worked with clients who were faced with depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, ADHD, life transitions, and more. I take a collaborative, understanding, and solution-oriented approach.
Mental health challenges, relationship difficulties, past traumatic experiences, and life transitions can impact your well-being significantly, especially if you don't believe that you can navigate these difficulties alone. We can work together to discover what will help you thrive in your life and cope with challenges that come your way. As a therapist, I have worked with clients who were faced with depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, ADHD, life transitions, and more. I take a collaborative, understanding, and solution-oriented approach.
Hello! My name is Laura Brito and I am a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) in Maryland. I love working with non-monogamous and queer-identifying individuals and relationships. My approach is sex-positive, affirming, and supportive. My therapeutic approach is compassion-centered, gentle, and warm. I most align with person and compassion-centered approach. I am here to provide a safe, non-judgmental space, to be a sounding board, and collaborate with you to find solutions that may ease the distress you are holding.
Hello! My name is Laura Brito and I am a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) in Maryland. I love working with non-monogamous and queer-identifying individuals and relationships. My approach is sex-positive, affirming, and supportive. My therapeutic approach is compassion-centered, gentle, and warm. I most align with person and compassion-centered approach. I am here to provide a safe, non-judgmental space, to be a sounding board, and collaborate with you to find solutions that may ease the distress you are holding.
Kelini Coker
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
My name is Kelini Coker and I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in both Maryland and Virginia. I work with mostly adults and couples. I typically work with people impacted by life transitions, narcissistic partner/parental abuse, as well as 1st/2nd generation immigrants in navigating cultural and societal pressures. I wanted to be a therapist because I felt there was a need in my community. I wanted to be a safe and familiar space that dispels the idea that we should keep our worries and "problems" to ourselves.
My name is Kelini Coker and I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in both Maryland and Virginia. I work with mostly adults and couples. I typically work with people impacted by life transitions, narcissistic partner/parental abuse, as well as 1st/2nd generation immigrants in navigating cultural and societal pressures. I wanted to be a therapist because I felt there was a need in my community. I wanted to be a safe and familiar space that dispels the idea that we should keep our worries and "problems" to ourselves.
Best Life Counseling and Life Coaching
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
I believe that everyone can get stuck or lost. Sometimes we can get unstuck by connecting with someone who is compassionate, non-judgmental and objective. I have spent over 25 years in behavioral health, helping people discover and become their "best" and healthy selves. Present problems, past hurts or even diagnoses don't have to take over our lives. Problems can be solved, hurts transformed, diagnoses understood and skills can be learned. A wise person once told me, "As long as you are alive, there is hope." I believe that and offer you the opportunity to find a new way.
I believe that everyone can get stuck or lost. Sometimes we can get unstuck by connecting with someone who is compassionate, non-judgmental and objective. I have spent over 25 years in behavioral health, helping people discover and become their "best" and healthy selves. Present problems, past hurts or even diagnoses don't have to take over our lives. Problems can be solved, hurts transformed, diagnoses understood and skills can be learned. A wise person once told me, "As long as you are alive, there is hope." I believe that and offer you the opportunity to find a new way.
Kat Loutrel
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LCSW-C, ADHD-, -CCSP
Verified Verified
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
Nonconforming & Neurodiverse (ADHD/ASD) individuals often see themselves as "different" & "othered" and it create a lot of difficulty navigating the world. Living in a country where Ablism bias, prejudice, and discrimination is the norm, individuals often find themselves constantly battling ways to navigate intimate relationships, social groups, and institutions that are not accepting of, or made for, their uniqueness. I help these adults normalize & navigate life's complexities by creating resilience in their own Unique Stories dealing w/ Adult ADHD, relationships, LGBTQ+, religious hang-ups, sexual discomfort/dysfunction & more.
Nonconforming & Neurodiverse (ADHD/ASD) individuals often see themselves as "different" & "othered" and it create a lot of difficulty navigating the world. Living in a country where Ablism bias, prejudice, and discrimination is the norm, individuals often find themselves constantly battling ways to navigate intimate relationships, social groups, and institutions that are not accepting of, or made for, their uniqueness. I help these adults normalize & navigate life's complexities by creating resilience in their own Unique Stories dealing w/ Adult ADHD, relationships, LGBTQ+, religious hang-ups, sexual discomfort/dysfunction & more.
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Gottman Method Therapists
How does the Gottman method work?
One of the core doctrines of the Gottman method is that negative emotions hurt relationships about five times more than positive emotions help them. Thus, couples require five times more positive interactions than negative interactions with each other. The therapist will guide clients on how to improve communication and understanding of each other to manage conflict and have their emotional needs met. The therapist will also advise couples on how to repair relations with each other when conflict arises, and therefore avoid lasting damage.
Is the Gottman method evidence-based?
Yes, this method is an evidence-based approach to couples therapy. The method is based on more than 40 years of research by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, the psychologists who developed the method. The Gottmans analyzed decades of data to draw conclusions about what types of interactions are likely to lead to specific results, and which interventions are most likely to lead to success. Studies have found that this approach leads to improvements in relationship satisfaction, intimacy, communication skills, and a lower rate of divorce.
How long does the Gottman method take?
The duration of treatment depends on the specific challenges clients face. Sessions are typically 60 to 90 minutes long, and an average course of treatment is around 10 sessions. In some cases, such as for couples dealing with a critical problem, the therapist will suggest an intensive course of treatment, with daily sessions over the first two to four days. Treatment is complete when the couple is satisfied and has met the goals they’ve set, and when the therapist believes they have the skills to continue on their own.
Is the Gottman method effective?
Through the Gottman method, couples can achieve changes that are real and sustainable. This treatment has been used for more than 40 years; the method is supported by empirical research, including randomized controlled trials that have demonstrated effectiveness in improving relationship outcomes for couples. Like any talk therapy, success or failure depends in large part on how committed the clients are to making positive changes and working toward results.