Marriage Counseling Therapists in Baldwin, MD

Hello! I incorporate CBT and Solution Focused Therapy and am very person centered in my approach. My approach focuses on the client's current life and relationships within the family and environment. This approach is to help the client identify and resolve problems with insight and strengths. I am passionate about helping people to find better ways of dealing with stress and anxiety found in life's transitions, personal and familial relationships. To me, therapy helps provide awareness, understanding, improved self esteem and personal change, all of which move clients to lead more satisfying, fulfilling and happy lives.

As a therapist, I apply a family systems approach to help individuals navigate through life. My practice extends to couples, children, adolescents, and young adults dealing with general stress, life transitions, grief, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. I also enjoy providing premarital counseling to couples seeking to build a stronger foundation before embarking on their marital journey.

Welcome to Core Counseling Services! At Core we strive to create a comfortable and inviting environment where our clients feel safe to explore and understand the challenges they face. Ultimately, they are free to entertain new ideas and develop behaviors that foster change and personal growth. We offer a variety of services for children, adolescents, adults, older adults, families, and couples. We offer both in-person and virtual appointments. We are excited to announce the addition of medication management to our practice!!

I believe that change is quite possible, though often difficult. The good part is that you are taking that first big step by contacting me! I enjoy working with adults and adolescents in individual, couples, and family sessions. With a strong foundation of psychodynamic, client centered/humanistic, and cognitive orientations, I offer an integrative therapeutic approach, depending on the individual needs of each client. My passion is guiding individuals toward insight and the ability to discover their happiest, and most vital, fulfilled, and authentic selves!

I am here to help you connect with your inner strengths and to know your own deepest wisdom. We all have an incredible capacity to heal and to meet whatever challenges show up in our lives. I bring deep compassion and skills from two and a half decades of helping clients with everything from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, acute trauma/PTSD, past abuse, dissociation, and OCD to marital/relationship problems, family issues, failure-to-launch, and intimacy issues. Together, we will partner to help you move forward into the life you are meant to be living.

Life can get the best of anyone, at anytime, and in those times support is necessary. Looking for the bright side in dark situations can be difficult, however, learning to manage helps to create resilience. From Faith Based/ Christian Counseling, Children & Families, Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Loss, Spirituality, Gerontology, Couples/Marital Counseling, to Spanish Speaking Psychotherapy - My Empowering Impact’s Diverse Therapist are here to help you. Call Us, Email Us or Visit Us online to Schedule Your Appointment TODAY ! Your Mental Health is Your Wealth !!!!!

In the past 20 years I have worked with ADOLESCENT AND ADULTS with SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH disorders. I provide individual, group and/or family therapy depending on the clients need. I believe there is no cookie cutter approach, and have been described as straight forward.

Are you experiencing a crisis in your relationship? Looking for ways to improve connection and intimacy? Considering starting or ending a relationship? Whether you are entering into a new relationship, maintaining a long-term relationship, navigating a crisis in a relationship, or working individually to determine next steps, my primary goal is to support you and your relationship goals. Drawing on a variety of treatment models, I view each individual and couple as unique in their experiences and needs and I strive to tailor treatment to build on your strengths to facilitate change and growth.

Are you anxious in relationships? Do you fear disapproval and/or lack motivation? I get it! I enjoy facilitating client change by first identifying the fixed thoughts and assumptions that interfere with fulfillment. Life is challenging, and what we say to ourselves can make coping difficult. Childhood experiences powerfully impact our self-statements, so you won't leave our sessions without exploring your youth - - who loved you, who didn't, and how you now cope and react. Finding personal meaning is also so important! My approaches are tailored to meet the unique needs of the individual or couple, as collaboration is essential.

Every marriage and partnership goes through ups and downs. However, some struggles call for extra support and guidance from a trained couples counselor. Marriage counseling can have goals, such as improving communication around conflicts; bringing back the spark after feeling like roommates; learning how to blend families after remarriage; or even amicable co-parenting during a divorce in order to have minimal impact on the kids. Whatever brings you to couples counseling, my focus is always on the best interest of the relationship. In working with a marriage counselor, you will find that the “client” is the relationship itself.

Currently accepting new clients! Welcome! I provide a safe and non judgmental environment where teens and adults can process their stories, gain insight and work through past and current challenges. I have over fifteen years experience providing therapy in a variety of treatment settings to adolescents through adulthood in all different stages of life. I work with clients who are experiencing depression, anxiety, marital and/or family conflict, low self esteem, difficulty navigating a current or recent change in life experiences, adjustment to college, parenthood and/or experiencing increased stress managing day to day life.

Please note I do not take insurance for couples therapy. My goal is to help you become the best version of yourself and assist you in achieving goals that are important to you in an open and collaborative way. I work with adults as well as couples, who may be struggling with depression, anxiety, gender identity, life transitions, parenting challenges and relationship issues. I use an eclectic approach rooted in a variety of evidenced based practices. I work best with clients looking for feedback and who enjoy being compassionately challenged. I also like to bring humor and radical genuineness into sessions.

I help people discover new ways to tackle life's challenges and grow solid self in relationship. Like a great athletic coach, I can help you and your family identify and build your strengths, increase flexibility and stamina in your relationships and develop an effective game plan be present to those you love and better navigate life's challenges.

Do you struggle with living as a married single mom which affects your day-to-day life, marriage or ability to function how you used to before kids? Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, frustrated and lost by the thought that there’s no light at the end of the tunnel? Do you question if it would be better if you were an actual single mom? Now more than ever moms are fed up about being a married single mom, and anxious about finding their place in life.

I believe that there is an integrative center within each of us that guides us toward healing. The situations, losses, and difficulties that arise in life provide us the impetus we need to grow into a fuller and more joyful life. My therapeutic style has been described as warm and respectful of the client. I create an environment of support within the session that encourages a collaborative relationship conducive for self-growth. My experience lies in the areas of stress management, anxiety disorders, depression, illness, addictions, trauma, and marital or relationship issues. I enjoy working with a variety of cultural backgrounds.

Are you planning to get married and you want to strengthen your relationship? Or, are you having problems in your marriage? Do you feel disconnected from your partner? Are you trying to determine if you both can stay in your marriage? Is your blended family not blending as well as you hoped? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we can discuss them in-depth and help build your relational skills.

I enjoy working with men and women who are struggling with depression or anxiety and those desiring to work through life transitions or relational dynamics. I work specifically with women experiencing challenges in the postpartum period. I have a passion for working with couples to establish healthy marriages where spouses feel valued, heard, and understood by one another. As a certified Prepare/Enrich facilitator I also enjoy working with couples in the pre-marital stage looking to establish a strong foundation. In order to attend to a client's overall wellbeing I often integrate my training in health, wellness and nutrition.