Somatic Therapists in Annapolis, MD

The Collective Healing Center is an evidence-based private practice that provides trauma-informed mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults. Our clinical staff is especially trained to work in individual, couples, or family therapy formats. We specialize in the areas of children and families, trauma, attachment disruptions, perinatal and postpartum mental health, life transitions, gender diversity, and sexual orientation. Our clinicians have ample familiarity with trauma-related issues and symptoms such as self-injury, dissociation, eating concerns, grief and sexual behaviors.

--Specializing in stress management, coaching, and therapy for therapists and other health care providers.-- As an active duty psychologist in the US Air Force, I helped numerous clients work through cognitive, emotional, and somatic challenges related to stress and anxiety. As a veteran, I continue to employ evidence-based modalities, including yoga therapy and nutritional psychology, to help clients develop the resilience to succeed in the face of life’s challenges.

Specializing for over 35 years in recovery from trauma, grief/loss, addictive tendencies, and stress-related illnesses, Linda’s life work has been a unique synthesis of somatic therapies (body), developmental psychology (mind), and applied spirituality. Her approach integrates principles of integral, Jungian, and transpersonal psychology, 12 step recovery & evolutionary spirituality. Psychosomatic integration (PSI) sessions deepen subtle body awareness, reduce stress, and invite relaxation. Currently a doctoral candidate with a focus on transpersonal research designed to address transgenerational trauma and societal ills.

Are you feeling stuck, anxious or discouraged? Feeling unfulfilled or overwhelmed? Are there issues from the past that seem to intrude into your present life? Do you isolate and avoid? Are you experiencing difficulties with depression, anxiety, relationships, work or sleep issues? You can find relief and move forward in your life. Looking for extra support and guidance through a challenging situation? Are you considering a move in a new direction?

Adulting can feel like walking alone on an endless bridge. You don't have to go it alone! I offer hope and help for young adults, ages 18-35ish, coping with life transitions, anxiety, trauma and grief. I work with relationship and career issues, postpartum blues and discovering your unique identity. I help clients with mind/body/spirit connection as well. I am committed to affirming identities for all folks. I honor each client as a unique individual who is the expert of their own journey of self-discovery, healing and growth. I'm LGBTQIA+, Kink, CNM and Polyamory aware and allied.

Whether your challenge comes from a past or recent trauma, relationship or interpersonal issues, addictions, issues of loss and letting go, anxiety, depression or just general life-confusion, there are many tools to employ to recover and reset yourself. And doing it with a supportive partner can make all the difference. Therapy is a chance to get to know yourself on a more intimate level, to bring balance to the body, mind and daily habits, clarify values and goals and get you moving in a direction that brings light, joy and purpose back to living. It teaches you grounding, new perspectives and new coping skills.

The folks I work with, say things like, "I look like I have it all together from the outside but on the inside it's a different story". My clients feel they have to "put on a good front" or be "on" all the time. They often describe themselves as people pleasing and needing to be well liked. They take care of everyone else, feel under-appreciated, overworked and exhausted. They can feel indecisive, have a difficult time knowing what they want or need, or have an impossible time asking for help. My clients are hard on themselves, often experience pervasive guilt and can describe coping in unhelpful ways or self-sabotaging.

What if everything we’ve been taught about life is a myth? What if the traditional formula for health and happiness doesn’t pertain to you? Are those rules about fitting into someone else’s version of what life should be? Do those rules inspire you, or do they keep your life - and your dreams - small? Solving problems in your head is an old-school and outdated strategy. Accessing the wisdom of the body is the new paradigm. At Next Generation Core, we will dig deeper to build a growth mindset.

You have taken the courageous step to begin therapy. You likely know that your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and even the sensations you feel are distressing. These patterns are hard to break. You may be re-living pieces of trauma on a daily basis. You may feel on edge, exhausted, and frustrated due to the impacts of chronic stress or caregiver fatigue. As a trauma therapist and Certified First Responder Counselor, my goal is to connect with you and assure you that you are not alone. I know everyone is capable of healing, and it is an honor to join you on your journey to wellness.

**NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. I INVITE YOU TO REACH OUT ABOUT MY WAITLIST FOR APPOINTMENTS AS THEY COME OPEN** Hi! My name is Smith (they/them) and I deeply value clients feeling heard and believed. I have worked with clients dealing with anxiety, depression, body image struggles, disordered eating, coming out, transitioning, dissociation, relationship conflict, acute and complex trauma, and more.

I am an ecotherapist working on Piscataway Territory (Annapolis, MD) at Anchored Hope Therapy. I am passionate about helping people heal complex and transgenerational trauma through the therapeutic relationship. I am equally as passionate about Decolonizing Nature Informed Therapy. This often means reclaiming and repairing your human-nature relationship, learning to re-humanize the process of therapy, the therapist and the client, and learning how systems of oppression impact your sense of wellness and wholeness. I believe that your identities impact you and how you relate to the world around you, including the natural world.

LifePsycle Counseling specializes in addressing the needs of adult individuals, children (beginning age 5), families and elder clients as they are faced with issues associated with personal life transition, various types of loss and recovery. Typical clients are seeking support for stress management, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship issues, and personal / professional growth, including life and interview coaching. In addition to having raised three successful children with my husband, I bring background experience as a classroom teacher, success in corporate business and clinical mental health counseling.

Do you feel like no one gets it? Better yet, no one gets YOU, not even yourself? Do you find yourself in the same cycles of relationships, negative thoughts, personal crisis and just feel like the proverbial hampster on a wheel? Are you sick of the sound of your own voice saying you want things to change but they never do? Do you feel misunderstood? Do you feel like you're screaming at the top of your lungs but it all comes out garbled gibberish that no one can hear anyway? Do you feel like you've fallen into your life rather than created it? Do you want to feel seen, heard, healed, and hopeful?

I am a counselor and psychotherapist working with adults ages 21 and above as well as couples. My training and experience includes a broad range of mental health conditions. I use an integrative and strengths-based approach to therapy that emphasizes cognitive change and emotion-regulation. My style in working with clients is interactive and educational. Client goals are central to the therapy process.

Are you struggling with an important relationship in your life? Our relationships - whether with family, friends, or coworkers - are foundational to our lives, but can, sadly, be fraught with conflicts/misunderstandings, causing us tremendous emotional suffering. I specialize in helping clients consider themselves and their troubled relationship through a different lens. This process clarifies how the relationship is “bogging down”, and supports working through difficult emotions, identifying root needs and goals, rediscovering a sense of healthy empowerment, and developing new approaches to communicating within the relationship.

Welcome! Chances are, if you're coming to this page you're struggling with something. Making that first step to see a therapist takes a lot of courage and shows a ton of strength. It is my belief that we all need support and a safe place to process and grow. Creating that space and working with you to understand and grow through this time, is an honor for me. I love working with families, couples, individuals and adolescents and feel that one of my strengths is my ability to put you at ease and make the challenging process of therapy more comfortable for you.  

I specialize in betrayal trauma, affair recovery for couples, as well as sex and porn addiction for male/female and Mother Hunger. Have you hit the “work required” part of your relationship? I am trained to address intimacy issues and support you to restore healing and peace. Our space will be a place where we work to understand the "why" around what is happening in your life and where we identify how to change what isn't working for you. Once we understand these origins, we can help you to highlight your strengths while overcoming the hurdles and challenges that are in the way of your life goals, happiness, and daily peace.

Hello and Welcome! Relationships are key to understanding who we are. From birth to the present, our past relationships affect our current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. At some point in life, most of us encounter personal roadblocks that create stress and unhappiness, overwhelm our coping mechanisms and undermine growth. Psychotherapy is a resource to help people heal, learn new skills, and develop greater self-awareness and strength. I offer clinical expertise to provide guidance, new perspectives, and to raise awareness of root issues that may be behind current problems. Together we will address these problems and underlying dynamics.

My goal is to help individuals overcome emotional, mental & spiritual obstacles that prevent them from living life to the fullest and living up to your potentional without guilt. Combined with different modes of therapy to help you overcome addiction, trauma, grief and relationship issues.