Therapists in Lutherville, MD

I provide a safe place for you to discuss your issues. I work with clients on life transitions, relationship issues, anger management, grief and loss, parenting, and childhood trauma. My treatment approach is a combination of cognitive-behavior, solution-focused, and family systems. My goal is to bring hope to your situation and help you construct positive changes in your life's journey.

Reaching out for help is one of the hardest things to do and connecting with a therapist who can provide a safe, confidential, judgement free space for you is crucial to your healing. Sometimes people are just looking for someone to talk to so they won't have to face their problems alone. I have been a therapist for over twenty years and whether you are struggling with grief or trauma, depression, anxiety, parenting concerns, stress, or life transitions, I will provide that space for you to work through life's challenges. My goal is for you to feel engaged and empowered, heard and supported, accepted and safe.

Using a psychodynamic and IFS (Parts Work) approach, I provide therapy for individual adults, couples, and families. Patients learn to recognize patterns in their behaviors that are causing them discomfort. Through the therapeutic approach and the therapeutic relationship, patients begin to make meaning of their internal system thus enabling them to utilize new ways of coping with grief, transitions (newly married, divorce, raising children, new job, relocation), anxiety, and past trauma.

I work with adults across the lifespan needing support for anxiety, grief, relationships, and major life changes. Whether we meet virtually, face-to-face, or outdoors in nature, my clients leave sessions feeling reconnected to their self-worth and ability to change unwanted patterns. I have a special interest in helping clients heal from loss; establish healthy boundaries; practice courageous communication; and enjoy meaningful connection with others.

I received my Master's in Social Work, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in 1999. I then trained at Jewish Family Services where I practiced for 11 years, seeing children, adults and families. In 2009, I began work at the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt where I received extensive training in the Maudsley Method/ Family Based Therapy Approach to treating Anorexia in adolescent patients and working with their families. Additionally, I have training in Sand Tray Therapy, a nonverbal modality that is helpful with the treatment of trauma as well as other concerns.

*ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS* Therapy is a highly personal and emotional experience. My experience includes working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, isolation, substance use, grief, loss, abuse, neglect, trauma, low self-esteem, life transitions, gender issues, relationship and/or family issues.

I aim to work supportively and collaboratively with my clients to create a warm, inviting atmosphere that allows us to work towards your goals together. I work with adolescents, young adults, and adults who may be struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, school challenges, family conflict, life transitions, disordered eating, grief and loss, substance abuse, sports performance concerns, personality disorders, and severe mental illness.

Welcome. It can be difficult to take the first steps and reach out for help. As an empathetic, experienced and understanding therapist, I provide a safe and judgement free space for clients to open up. I am a licensed clinical social worker and the Clinical Director of Ellie Mental Health. I work with preteens, teens and adults providing individual, couples and family therapy.

Are you feeling invisible? Angry about a breakup? Have you recently experienced a loss/death? Do you feel misunderstood? Are you experiencing more pain, burnout, and/or fatigue than normal? Does your adolescent need extra support? Is your family/relationship falling apart? If your answer to any of these questions is "Yes," or even if you have questions of your own, it may be time to reach out and talk through those thoughts and feelings. I would be delighted to be the person you reach out to.

I am so glad that you are here. Taking the steps toward healing is no easy task, so if no one has said it, I am so proud of you. Society spends so much time trying to tell us who we are and what we need to be that sometimes we forget who we are and what we are worth. The hardest part of the therapeutic process is showing up. Healing can be complicated and scary at times. However, through this process, I hope you discover all the beautiful qualities that make you exceptional.

Hello. If you are dealing with a situation that seems so big, it gets in the way of other things in your life, or if you are trying to make sense of a relationship issue, a decision that can’t be resolved or maybe dealing with what you think might be anxiety or depression or some other mental health issue, know that mental health therapy can help you to clarify, manage and feel better. I work with adolescents, teens and adults who want an open minded listener who brainstorms with you to find creative solutions to the things that are keeping you from functioning and feeling as well as you think you can.

I enjoy working with creatively inspired individuals searching for or growing fulfilling careers or entrepreneurial opportunities which emphasize their unique personalities and natural gifts that allow for an integrated work-life balance. I also enjoy working with parents interested in finding an integrated lifestyle that merges personal, professional, and familial values. I use a family systems lens in individual counseling, where we collaborate on exploring how past and present family systems influence a person’s sense of self. I also work with clients' external systems in family therapy and parent coaching, etc.

Life can be hard! Anxiety and depression is overwhelming. Life transitions are hard to face alone. Couples need ongoing support and work with communication. Working together, our team can help work through these challenges with compassion and humor. Anxiety, depression, poor self-esteem and social issues have become pervasive and have a tremendous impact on functioning and overall wellbeing. Let us help you reach your best self.

In 1987, I started the Life Mastery Center to help people in their journey to find happiness and fulfillment in life. Life is undoubtedly stressful and can bring about feelings of depression and anxiety. These feelings can affect relationships at home, at work, at school. I believe that through the positive therapeutic process, one can get unstuck from negative habits, negative barriers, negative mindsets. The positive therapeutic process helps to identify the problems and build positive life skills that will lead to a happier, healthier, fulfilling life.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. Anxiety can be significantly disabling and negatively impact our mood and quality of life. It's not uncommon for someone with an anxiety disorder to also suffer from depression. You are tired of experiencing symptoms of anxiety including intrusive, racing, and ruminative thoughts that seemingly don’t stop, feeling on constant edge, and worrying all the time. You may also feel anxiety present itself as uncomfortable sensations in your body. You, however, have already made the most courageous step which is to look for a solution.

About Dr. Qureshi-> Dr. Misbha Qureshi received her Master and PhD in Couple and Family Therapy from Drexel University (PA). She has over 17 years of clinical experience in the behavioral health system of care, providing individual, family, couples, and group therapies to culturally diverse communities. Her areas of expertise address cultural diversity, social justice, trauma/abuse, parent-child relationships, and family dynamics, while targeting symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance abuse, PTSD, and much more.

When entering a therapeutic space, you want to feel safe. It is natural to seek a place where you feel heard and where you can speak your mind freely. Maybe you're looking for a space where you and your partner can work through communication issues? Are you carrying some heavy emotions that you need to work through? Have you been feeling like you don't belong? In our space, you can feel safe and heard. We can work through your communication and emotional problems. In this space, you can come as yourself and belong!

When you find the right therapist, therapy can be deeply transformative, creating new possibilities for your relationship with yourself, with others, and with the world around you. I aim to create a therapy space which feels flexible, collaborative and non-judgmental. In sessions, we will work together to put your life story together in a meaningful way that helps to free you from unhelpful patterns. I often incorporate humor and a sense of playfulness into my work. My approach is relational, trauma-informed and culturally-responsive.

Hello and thank you for visiting my site. I'm a mature woman who has a passion for helping others obtain their best self. My experience is vast and successful including substance abuse, codependency, raising special needs children, couples work, anxiety and depression, trauma, as well as family and relationship issues. My schedule is six days a week and I also run substance abuse groups. Please feel free to call me and have a chat.