Therapists in Bethesda, MD

My goal is to help patients learn to be responders and to be in charge of themselves. Throughout treatment, a functional medicine approach is employed. Care collaboration is valued. Patients with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges benefit from a variety of cognitive behavioral, neurobehavioral, and psychophysiological modalities. Patients with such conditions as emotional and physical trauma, chronic pain, addictions, brain injuries and disorders (autism, Asperger's, ADD/ADHD, motor and balance challenges, for example), sleep disorders, anxiety, and depression are treated. Individuals with neurological, autoimmune, metabolic, endocrinological, and other complex medical conditions find that the treatment modalities promote healing.

I believe it is possible for people to change. For over 25 years, I have been working with teens, adults and seniors, helping them reassess what they want out of life and how to get it, change their approach to work and relationships, and heal the emotional and spiritual pain of loss, anxiety and depression. My areas of special interest include: Couples Therapy: Resolving Conflict and Deepening Intimacy; Grief and Loss: Healing the Pain of Loss and Adjusting to Living--Washingtonian magazine has named me a Top 10 Grief Therapist; Chronic Illness and Care Giving: Balancing Reality and Hope

Sadia Aurna, Counselor-in-Training, provides therapy in an environment that is focused on the client’s individual growth and that is most of service to them. Sadia believes that the combination of skillful therapy with a fierce compassion for her client’s wellness helps them to reach their therapeutic goals. Sadia wants all parts of her clients to feel heard, respected, and appreciated as there is no bad part. She has lots of experience working with people in various capacities in different parts of the US. Fun Fact: Sadia has traveled to 25 states and hopes to visit all 50 states.

I believe that therapy in an emotionally safe, comfortable environment sets the foundation for tremendous growth and healing. I am compassionate, warm, and non-judgmental while also being focused on helping you see new perspectives and break old cycles. My therapy approach is collaborative and tailored to each person's unique struggles, needs, and goals. I help clients to develop insight and self-acceptance while building skills to feel calmer and more in control, work more competently, feel more interpersonal harmony, and to generally experience life more fully.

Maybe you want a sense of security, to be calmer, to have more energy and creativity or more loving relationships. Maybe you want freedom from the after-effects of trauma. We begin with an attitude of loving self acceptance. You can change an unhealthy habit, heal from trauma or shed an addiction relatively quickly with a brand new (evidence-based) method called Accelerated Resolution Therapy (A.R.T.). I bring wide experience and a large professional toolbox to help you toward your goals.

As a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, I help people understand the problems that are bringing them to therapy and how these issues are interfering with their life goals. Often these issues are work or relationship related. Though they may originate in the past, they have a strong impact on present day difficulties. We work together to understand how a person is "stuck" and how he or she may get in his or her own way. Sometimes, these issues are outside of a person's awareness, and we seek to uncover and them resolve them.