Eating Disorders Therapists in Pikesville, MD
If you are trying to manage issues related to eating disorders, depression or anxiety then I am available to help you.
I help people using strategies and therapies such as CBT, DBT and psychodynamic approaches. I have worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 21 years and have specialty training in the treatment of eating, mood and anxiety disorders. I have expertise working with individuals, groups and families and really see the value of each.
If you are trying to manage issues related to eating disorders, depression or anxiety then I am available to help you.
I help people using strategies and therapies such as CBT, DBT and psychodynamic approaches. I have worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 21 years and have specialty training in the treatment of eating, mood and anxiety disorders. I have expertise working with individuals, groups and families and really see the value of each.
Are you struggling with an eating disorder, body image concerns or anxiety?
With a compassionate and collaborative approach, my goal is to help clients navigate challenges in their lives and achieve their goals. I enjoy partnering with clients to identify a therapeutic approach that is specific to their needs and that will support them in reaching their goals in therapy.
Are you struggling with an eating disorder, body image concerns or anxiety?
With a compassionate and collaborative approach, my goal is to help clients navigate challenges in their lives and achieve their goals. I enjoy partnering with clients to identify a therapeutic approach that is specific to their needs and that will support them in reaching their goals in therapy.
Amr El-beshir, LGPC Amr El-beshir is a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor in Maryland who has been practicing since 2001. He has a Master of Arts (M.A. in counseling psychology) from Towson University. Amr believes that life can be messy and filled with detours and stops along the way, and that the therapeutic process is a collaborative relationship which leads the clients to deep insight and awareness, to find a clearer perception of themselves in a safe space to increase personal strength while working to reduce maladaptive behaviors in pursuit of a more meaningful life experience.
Amr El-beshir, LGPC Amr El-beshir is a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor in Maryland who has been practicing since 2001. He has a Master of Arts (M.A. in counseling psychology) from Towson University. Amr believes that life can be messy and filled with detours and stops along the way, and that the therapeutic process is a collaborative relationship which leads the clients to deep insight and awareness, to find a clearer perception of themselves in a safe space to increase personal strength while working to reduce maladaptive behaviors in pursuit of a more meaningful life experience.
Are you struggling with depression and/or anxiety? Have you felt stuck in your current life situation and feel hopeless about a positive change? Then you have come to the right person. I will guide and support you to create and achieve the goals you never thought were possible. With coaching and compassion, you will feel empowered and rejuvenated. You have already taken the first step!
Are you struggling with depression and/or anxiety? Have you felt stuck in your current life situation and feel hopeless about a positive change? Then you have come to the right person. I will guide and support you to create and achieve the goals you never thought were possible. With coaching and compassion, you will feel empowered and rejuvenated. You have already taken the first step!
Not all therapists are able to support you fully when medical or other conditions have caused cognitive decline. This is my specialty. Having worked closely with neurologists, radiologists and many other medical specialties, I can offer you neuropsyc or psych evaluations and brain maps that shed light on problems, and create a treatment plan that really makes a difference. We've helped folks with brain injury or general concerns for cognition, restore memory and attention skills, get to better thinking and reasoning, and enhanced joy in life. I go beyond the limits where others stopped, because rehabilitating brains is my passion.
Not all therapists are able to support you fully when medical or other conditions have caused cognitive decline. This is my specialty. Having worked closely with neurologists, radiologists and many other medical specialties, I can offer you neuropsyc or psych evaluations and brain maps that shed light on problems, and create a treatment plan that really makes a difference. We've helped folks with brain injury or general concerns for cognition, restore memory and attention skills, get to better thinking and reasoning, and enhanced joy in life. I go beyond the limits where others stopped, because rehabilitating brains is my passion.
My background includes extensive work with the military population and individuals navigating trauma, OCD and anxiety related disorders, depression, eating disorders, and substance use.
I use a trauma-informed, goal-oriented approach to help clients identify unhelpful patterns, build practical tools, and strengthen emotional and nervous system regulation to support meaningful change at your pace. I provide evidence-based treatment, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I).
My background includes extensive work with the military population and individuals navigating trauma, OCD and anxiety related disorders, depression, eating disorders, and substance use.
I use a trauma-informed, goal-oriented approach to help clients identify unhelpful patterns, build practical tools, and strengthen emotional and nervous system regulation to support meaningful change at your pace. I provide evidence-based treatment, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I).
Prof. Tuesday R. Isom
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C
3 Endorsed
Pikesville, MD 21208
Waitlist for new clients
Life travels at a very fast pace and at times it can be easy to lose one’s sense of self. Symptoms of depression and anxiety; among other irregularities caused by life stressors are responses all have experienced. Greif and loss are another huge component today, with so many tragedies and adversities, one may feel an inability to move forward or a disconnect from people and or purpose. Such encounters often create emotions, that provoke symptoms that can become unmanageable causing levels of apathy, loneliness and or hopeless. Participating in therapeutic strategies could relieve inhibitions and promote positive growth.
Life travels at a very fast pace and at times it can be easy to lose one’s sense of self. Symptoms of depression and anxiety; among other irregularities caused by life stressors are responses all have experienced. Greif and loss are another huge component today, with so many tragedies and adversities, one may feel an inability to move forward or a disconnect from people and or purpose. Such encounters often create emotions, that provoke symptoms that can become unmanageable causing levels of apathy, loneliness and or hopeless. Participating in therapeutic strategies could relieve inhibitions and promote positive growth.
Any Individual struggling to control worries that control their life, panic attacks that disrupt their lives, or other disorders that impact their life. Additionally anyone adjusting to life in a new country. Couples and families struggling with lack of communication and connection.
Any Individual struggling to control worries that control their life, panic attacks that disrupt their lives, or other disorders that impact their life. Additionally anyone adjusting to life in a new country. Couples and families struggling with lack of communication and connection.
If you've been through trauma, you know it can shape the way you move through life - how safe you feel, how much you trust, how you show up everyday. Healing doesn't mean pretending everything is fine. It means having a space where your story is honored and you feel seen and respected.
If you've been through trauma, you know it can shape the way you move through life - how safe you feel, how much you trust, how you show up everyday. Healing doesn't mean pretending everything is fine. It means having a space where your story is honored and you feel seen and respected.
Accepts Cigna, United Health Care, John Hopkins, Bluecross Blue Shield and more!
You may have learned to stay strong or push through even when it feels exhausting. Therapy offers a space where you can slow down and feel safe enough to reconnect with yourself. My work is trauma-informed and holistic, focusing on emotional regulation, grounding, and self-compassion. Healing happens at your pace. If at any point additional support is needed, I can provide referrals to trusted professionals as part of a coordinated care approach.
Accepts Cigna, United Health Care, John Hopkins, Bluecross Blue Shield and more!
You may have learned to stay strong or push through even when it feels exhausting. Therapy offers a space where you can slow down and feel safe enough to reconnect with yourself. My work is trauma-informed and holistic, focusing on emotional regulation, grounding, and self-compassion. Healing happens at your pace. If at any point additional support is needed, I can provide referrals to trusted professionals as part of a coordinated care approach.
Specialty areas include anxiety, depression, ADHD, and eating disorders as well as academic, social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Zipporah specializes in working with women, adolescents, teens and adults. She strives to create a safe and nurturing atmosphere in which individuals can be supported in their efforts to change and grow as well as become reconnected to their strengths and dreams. Her approach enables individuals to gain meaningful insight into issues of self-reflection.
Specialty areas include anxiety, depression, ADHD, and eating disorders as well as academic, social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Zipporah specializes in working with women, adolescents, teens and adults. She strives to create a safe and nurturing atmosphere in which individuals can be supported in their efforts to change and grow as well as become reconnected to their strengths and dreams. Her approach enables individuals to gain meaningful insight into issues of self-reflection.
I provide counseling to individuals and couples seeking to better understand their patterns and develop practical skills to manage—or reduce—the impact of life’s planned and unplanned transitions, relationship challenges (past or present), persistent negative thinking, low mood, and difficulty with motivation or follow-through. Together, we explore how your past experiences have shaped your current beliefs, behaviors, and relational dynamics. By increasing insight and awareness, we create space for intentional change. Our work will also emphasize developing clarity and confidence in expressing your needs, boundaries, and desires.
I provide counseling to individuals and couples seeking to better understand their patterns and develop practical skills to manage—or reduce—the impact of life’s planned and unplanned transitions, relationship challenges (past or present), persistent negative thinking, low mood, and difficulty with motivation or follow-through. Together, we explore how your past experiences have shaped your current beliefs, behaviors, and relational dynamics. By increasing insight and awareness, we create space for intentional change. Our work will also emphasize developing clarity and confidence in expressing your needs, boundaries, and desires.
Do you feel stuck, unmotivated, lost, or overwhelmed? In therapy, we’ll work together to identify and challenge the core beliefs that may be keeping you feeling trapped, anxious, depressed, guilty, angry, or unhappy with yourself.
I believe our past experiences shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Often, the perspectives we developed earlier in life continue to influence us even though they’ve stopped serving us. Therapy offers the opportunity to examine those patterns, make meaningful adjustments, and develop a more compassionate and empowering way of understanding yourself.
Do you feel stuck, unmotivated, lost, or overwhelmed? In therapy, we’ll work together to identify and challenge the core beliefs that may be keeping you feeling trapped, anxious, depressed, guilty, angry, or unhappy with yourself.
I believe our past experiences shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. Often, the perspectives we developed earlier in life continue to influence us even though they’ve stopped serving us. Therapy offers the opportunity to examine those patterns, make meaningful adjustments, and develop a more compassionate and empowering way of understanding yourself.
Are you interested in connecting to your deepest desires and living from your most authentic self? It's my intention is to create a collaborative environment in which I support people to reconnect to their heart’s desires and to become their most authentic selves. This work often involves addressing obstacles in one's way, increasing self-awareness, getting to know and regulate one's attachment and nervous systems, expanding emotional capacity, working with different parts of oneself, identifying patterns, and noticing the ways we relate to ourselves and our environment. I believe in our innate capacity for healing and growth.
Are you interested in connecting to your deepest desires and living from your most authentic self? It's my intention is to create a collaborative environment in which I support people to reconnect to their heart’s desires and to become their most authentic selves. This work often involves addressing obstacles in one's way, increasing self-awareness, getting to know and regulate one's attachment and nervous systems, expanding emotional capacity, working with different parts of oneself, identifying patterns, and noticing the ways we relate to ourselves and our environment. I believe in our innate capacity for healing and growth.
Welcome! Are you or your child feeling overwhelmed and at a loss for how to cope right now? Could you benefit from a safe refuge where you can receive some support in sorting things out?
I am committed to providing my clients with a relationship that is secure, collaborative, non-judgmental, and respectful. Although I have over a decade of training in the nature of psychological problems that can trouble us, my focus as a psychologist is in the client as a whole person, with an emphasis on their strengths.
Welcome! Are you or your child feeling overwhelmed and at a loss for how to cope right now? Could you benefit from a safe refuge where you can receive some support in sorting things out?
I am committed to providing my clients with a relationship that is secure, collaborative, non-judgmental, and respectful. Although I have over a decade of training in the nature of psychological problems that can trouble us, my focus as a psychologist is in the client as a whole person, with an emphasis on their strengths.
I am an exceptional listener, mentor and guide who works with people dealing with depression, mood disorders, anxiety, and addiction. My practice is patient-centered: I am trained in a number of treatment modalities, but they can only be effective if an honest, trusting relationship is forged between me and my patient. Creating that relationship cannot be one-sided; it must be collaborative. My first order of business when meeting a new client is to begin developing trust on both sides. I ask questions. I listen. I offer honest feedback. I keep my mind and heart open.
I am an exceptional listener, mentor and guide who works with people dealing with depression, mood disorders, anxiety, and addiction. My practice is patient-centered: I am trained in a number of treatment modalities, but they can only be effective if an honest, trusting relationship is forged between me and my patient. Creating that relationship cannot be one-sided; it must be collaborative. My first order of business when meeting a new client is to begin developing trust on both sides. I ask questions. I listen. I offer honest feedback. I keep my mind and heart open.
Jenna Newman, LCSW, helps adults across Maryland find stability, healing, and empowerment through compassionate, evidence-based therapy. She works with individuals and couples navigating challenges such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. Jenna’s approach is collaborative and goal-oriented—helping clients build practical coping skills, improve emotional awareness, and create meaningful change that lasts. She provides care for adults and seniors through both individual and couples therapy, offering a safe and supportive space for growth at every stage of life.
Jenna Newman, LCSW, helps adults across Maryland find stability, healing, and empowerment through compassionate, evidence-based therapy. She works with individuals and couples navigating challenges such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. Jenna’s approach is collaborative and goal-oriented—helping clients build practical coping skills, improve emotional awareness, and create meaningful change that lasts. She provides care for adults and seniors through both individual and couples therapy, offering a safe and supportive space for growth at every stage of life.
Finding the right psychotherapist can be challenging. It may be uncomfortable to schedule an initial session without obtaining a sense of what the therapist is like. Please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have about this process or psychotherapy in general.
I'd be delighted to help.
I'm formally trained in Individual and Couples Psychotherapy, Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment, and Behavioral Medicine (Mind-Body).
Psychotherapeutic treatment of disorders related to Anxiety (including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic, Phobias) Depression, Trauma, and Substance Abuse.
Specific emphasis in couples and issues related to intimacy. Trained in Divorce Mediation.
Finding the right psychotherapist can be challenging. It may be uncomfortable to schedule an initial session without obtaining a sense of what the therapist is like. Please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have about this process or psychotherapy in general.
I'd be delighted to help.
I'm formally trained in Individual and Couples Psychotherapy, Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment, and Behavioral Medicine (Mind-Body).
Psychotherapeutic treatment of disorders related to Anxiety (including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic, Phobias) Depression, Trauma, and Substance Abuse.
Specific emphasis in couples and issues related to intimacy. Trained in Divorce Mediation.
I believe engaging in a therapy relationship benefits all. It is important in this setting to feel safe, heard as well as understood without judgement. I work with adolescents as well as adults navigating through lives filled with relationship conflicts, school and academic stressors, communication breakdowns, body image issues, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse. I want my clients to feel how important their issues and progress are to me and that I will do my very best to help them reach their goals.
I believe engaging in a therapy relationship benefits all. It is important in this setting to feel safe, heard as well as understood without judgement. I work with adolescents as well as adults navigating through lives filled with relationship conflicts, school and academic stressors, communication breakdowns, body image issues, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse. I want my clients to feel how important their issues and progress are to me and that I will do my very best to help them reach their goals.
My ideal client is someone who is ready to elevate their well-being. They are open to exploring the root causes of their concerns and are willing to engage in therapeutic interventions.
My ideal client is someone who is ready to elevate their well-being. They are open to exploring the root causes of their concerns and are willing to engage in therapeutic interventions.
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Eating Disorders Therapists
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviors, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behavior affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counseling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioral disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behavior, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognize they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behavior has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.