Compassion Focused Therapists in Rockville, MD

Hello and Welcome! I would like to work collaboratively with you, helping you get through a difficult and challenging life journey so that you can make positive changes in your life, achieve your personal growth, and develop skills for improving relationships with yourself and others. Through therapy, you can learn how you relate to yourself and others and how your relationship history, current/past life experiences and your cultural identity experiences impact your relationship with yourself and others.

My clients would likely say I am open-minded, down-to-earth, and empathetic. 20 years of experience have taught me that respectful understanding is key in working with clients who seek to understand their circumstances, proactively engage in their lives, and feel better. My main area of work has been supporting adolescents and adults with emotional difficulties, traumatic events, decision making, and coping skills for life transitions (school, career, "adulting”). I work in tandem with clients as they identify their challenges, needs, and goals. My approach, while kind and interactive, encourages self-reliance.

I am here to help you and to listen. We can work together to better understand the challenges in your life. Through talking, things will get better. Today, you are one step closer to a new you where you can feel empowered and go on that positive path to growth and well-being. As a therapist, my goal is to help you lead a life that is worth celebrating. By applying complementary therapy approaches and techniques, we will unearth long-standing behavior patterns or negative perceptions that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

Are you struggling feeling moody or depressed. Are you dealing with painful past experiences. Do you feel distracted or overwhelmed by stress related to relationships? If what brought you here includes: wanting to feel better, address past wounds or develop healthier relationships, counseling can help. If you are trying to find a lifeline to get through a divorce or separation, dealing with immigration, or adjusting into American culture, then call for a free 15 minute consultation.

Are you feeling sad, anxious, and overwhelmed? Are you someone who is tired of figuring out things on your own? Do you have some unresolved areas in your life you would like to discuss? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not alone. I would love to partner with you to navigate these challenges and get you to a place where you can achieve inner peace and live the life you truly deserve. I work with adolescents and adults including the geriatric population who are seeking tools and strategies to overcome challenges related to anxiety, depression, grief and loss, stress, life transitions, and chronic illnesses.

WELCOME to your Therapeutic HOLISTIC WELLNESS ENRICHMENT CENTER. Do you want to learn to go with the flow DAILY, live in the here and now, and manage uncertainty? As an experienced Holistic Integrative Psychotherapist, Spiritual Coach I specialize in helping individuals gain insight and mind/body & spiritual strength. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can collaborate to help you accept feelings, let go of mind/body connections to stress, trauma, and burning out. Our body CERTAINLY hears what our mind says!! By using healing techniques, you can let go of feelings and triggers by their roots to become unstuck.

Because no two patients are alike, therapy should be tailored to each patient, rather than trying to treat everyone with the same theoretical approach. I believe that a therapist’s job is to guide the patient as they learn to change the behaviors and thinking styles that may have once been helpful, but are now getting in their way. Most importantly, I believe it is a therapist's job to teach their patients the skills necessary to eventually function independent of their therapist, allowing them to eventually leave therapy instead of being stuck with having weekly sessions for the rest of their lives!

I am a LCSW-C therapist who works with adolescents, adults, and couples. Life has a way of presenting people with challenges that may cause you to want to seek counseling to help you navigate your way through life's ups and downs. Sometimes these challenges make us feel stuck and uncertain, whether it be relationship issues, divorce, intimacy, death of a loved one, loss of a job, grief, suicide survivor, identity crisis, family conflict, addiction, domestic violence, abuse, sexual orientation, or simply feeling like you are at a cross roads and not sure what to do next.

Are you feeling anxious, sad, and/or like you want to make changes in yourself, your relationships or your life? With over a decade of experience, a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, and deep respect for my clients, I am here to help you start this process. My treatment approach is integrative, which means that I draw from different theories and techniques to provide treatment that is individualized to your particular needs. I emphasize the use of treatments that have been found to be effective in clinical research, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Hello, thank you for reading my profile. Life is beautiful and we try to make the best of it, but due to stresses and unexpected factors it becomes difficult to maintain a balance between ourselves and the people surrounding us. I believe in a holistic approach to treat the human mind. I provide psychotherapy services for adolescents and adults to address depression, anxiety, addiction, self-esteem issues, concern in personal and work relationships. I have specialized training in traumatic events like sexual assault, grief and chronic illness as well as anger management, conflict resolution, life coaching and problem solving.

Do these statements resonate with you? You feel like you're treading water or drowning. The weight of the world feels so heavy that you can't leave your bed. You feel overwhelmed by difficult relationships. I have helped clients navigate these issues in the context of their anxiety and depression. I’ve also developed a passion for LGBTQ counseling and sex health. Perhaps you are on a gender or sexuality journey or you are curious in pursuing a certain lifestyle with your partner. Regardless of what brings you here, we will work together to draw the roadmap for your personal fulfillment, peace, and growth.

Kumi Pledger, LCPC, strives to help clients sleep better, worry less and enjoy life more! She works with children, adolescents, couples, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients, families and adults for various issues including, relationship challenges, supporting new and expectant mothers, eating disorders, adjustment problems, trauma, grief and loss. She uses personal insight and professional experience to provide clients with a safe place to be heard, free fears, reduce anxieties, eliminate unwanted behaviors, grow, improve and conquer insomnia.

NOW OFFERING MEDICATION MANAGEMENT! Are you feeling anxious? Lonely? Depressed, stuck and scared to move forward? Having difficulties in communicating your emotions and needs? Struggling with relationships? We can help you to find inner peace and confidence! Our clinicians utilize modern, warm and compassionate approaches to serve your needs. We provide services to both children and adults. Thank you for taking this step forward and searching for help!

Dr. Kaveh is the owner/director of Washington Psychological Wellness. Dr. Kaveh is passionate about helping people live the lives they have envisioned by bringing values of honesty, kindness, humor & compassion to the practice. She works to inspire change, create greater self-awareness & improve one's life. She provides a comfortable and collaborative environment in which you can take risks and explore different ways of thinking, feeling & being. Her aim is to help you gain clarity about the underlying causes of your problems, provide strategies to help you cope & empower you to trust your inner voice & live each day authentically.

Amelia Holgash, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker who has expertise working with adults, adolescents, and children from different backgrounds in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, religion/spirituality, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Amelia is also specialized in treating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief/loss, relational difficulties, and difficult life transitions. Amelia's ultimate passion is to help you fulfill your mental wellness goals and needs.

Felicia strongly believes every individual has the willpower to be who they wish to be if only they believed in themselves. She also believes through self empowerment, self-love and self-care, the inner being can be its true desired being and in return will create a confident person no matter the “limitation”.

Gabriela Vasquez, LCMFT, has experience with a wide range of individuals and families, who come from various backgrounds including race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion/spirituality, and culture. She specializes in the areas of anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, life transitions, communication, and relationships. Throughout the therapeutic process, Gabriela assists clients in finding their own voice, establishing boundaries, increasing resilience, and creating their own definition of happiness.

Congratulations on taking the first step on your path to personal growth! At any age, seeking counseling requires strength and courage, and it is completely normal that you may be hesitant and have lots of questions. Just know that the decisions that are often the most difficult or scary for us often lead us to a more positive, fulfilling path on the other side. While I have experience in a variety of settings working with adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, self-esteem and relationship or family conflicts, I also enjoy helping individuals who identify as HSP in learning more about their trait and themselves.

The way we experience our lives around us, is vastly shaped by our past learned experiences, especially as children and teenagers. Ideally, a child should learn how to navigate the world with confidence, feels secure and safe, skillfully assured of his/her own ability to problem solve. When someone suffers from anxiety, depression or personality disorders, he/she have been forced to develop different set of skills, mostly on his/her own, designed to defend the body against either perceived or real traumatic events. As a result, their views of themselves and, the world and others, becomes rigid, distorted and generalized.

Washington Psychological Wellness is passionate about helping people live the lives they have envisioned by bringing values of honesty, kindness, humor and compassion to the practice. Therapy can inspire change, create greater self-awareness and improve one's life and relationships. Our clinicians provide a comfortable and collaborative environment in which you can take risks and explore different ways of thinking, feeling and being. Our aim is to help you gain clarity about the underlying causes of problems, provide strategies to help you cope and empower you to trust your inner voice and live each day authentically.