
John W Cornelius
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MS, MSW, LCSW-C, LICSW
Verified by Psychology Today
2000 P Street NW, Suite 615, Washington, DC 20036
Let's Connect (202) 600-9053

I help individuals work on life issues tied to anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, stress symptoms tied to childhood trauma, and families struggling with behavioral challenges. I teach communication skills that help with difficult relationships. These skills include helping my clients improve their power, voice, and contact with significant others. I employ many approaches in psychotherapy, including psychodynamic, gestalt, somatic experiencing (SE), accelerated experiential dynamic (AEDP), cognitive behavioral (CBT) and emotionally focused couples therapy (EFT).
For traumatic stress, I help individuals reduce symptoms of hyperarousal, panic, numbness, and pain in response to relationship and life challenges. With children, adolescents, and young adults, I combine relationship and calming skills to reduce ADHD and family discord and increase self-efficacy. I work with emotions, behaviors, cognitions and physiology.
I work with individuals or couples to explore how small changes in life attitudes and body stances can create new ways of thinking, feeling and being in the world and help find new solutions to life problems. This approach can help individuals contact their sense of joy and competency.
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John W Cornelius
now for a free 15 minute consultation - (202) 600-9053
Let's Connect (202) 600-9053

Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $130
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by ACH Bank transfer, American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Out of Network
If you see your insurance listed, please ask me to verify coverage when you arrange your first visit.

John W Cornelius
Clinical Social Work/Therapist,
MS,
MSW,
LCSW-C,
LICSW
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Maryland / 14003License state differs from primary location state.
- Certificate from Washington, DC LC50078579 (LICSW) / 2009
- Certificate from Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute Somatic Experiencing / 2005
- Certificate from Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Center of DC Gestalt Psychotherapy / 2007
- Attended Virginia Commonwealth University, Graduated 2005
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Relationship Issues
- Child
Expertise
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Body Oriented Psychotherapy
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Life Coaching
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
Client Focus
Age
Toddler,
Children (6 to 10),
Preteen,
Teen,
Adults,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals,
Couples,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied,
Gay Allied,
Lesbian Allied,
Transgender Allied
Ethnicity
Asian,
Black and African American
Age
Toddler,
Children (6 to 10),
Preteen,
Teen,
Adults,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals,
Couples,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied,
Gay Allied,
Lesbian Allied,
Transgender Allied
Ethnicity
Asian,
Black and African American
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acclearated experiential dynamic psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Forensic Psychology
- Gestalt
- Gestalt Psychotherapy
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Play Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Somatic experiencing
- Trauma Focused
Location
Additional Location
Nearby Areas
Call or Email me for a free 15 minute consultation now - (202) 600-9053

John W Cornelius
Clinical Social Work/Therapist,
MS,
MSW,
LCSW-C,
LICSW
Last Modified: 20 Dec 2022