"I view therapy as a process that can facilitate healing and change, as well as understanding and fulfillment. Whether stuck in a conflicted relationship, feeling lost, struggling with depression or anxiety, adjusting to a transition or life change, feeling unable to break unhealthy patterns or resolve past issues and pain, it can be difficult to know where to start. Together, we can explore the issues you face and identify the direction you want your life to take and the steps needed to get you there. Once established, our relationship can provide the foundation and safety for this process."

"Choosing to enter therapy can be a difficult decision and finding and connecting with the right therapist plays a significant role in the healing process. I believe this healing is achieved through an authentic and collaborative therapist-client relationship and by providing a supportive and nonjudgmental environment in which clients feel safe to explore difficult issues. There are myriad reasons people enter therapy: for problems that have a direct correlation to a cause or for problems that are imprecise, but impact their quality of life."

"Your preschool child is struggling? Feel like you have tried everything with your kindergartner? Adapting to first grade is harder than expected? The challenges of early childhood are often underestimated, from the birth of a sibling to adapting to preschool or first grade. Normal, age appropriate behaviors, could be, at times, quite difficult to deals with. Loving and caring parents may try to do all the right things and a child might still show signs of straggle."

"As your therapist, my goal is to help you recognize and become your best self. Together, we will come to a greater understanding of the fear, anxieties, and challenges you face and work towards discovering solutions. I specialize in working with couples in distress using Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, created by Sue Johnson. We all get stuck in negative patterns of communication from time to time. When the destructive cycle takes permanent residence, it can feel horribly scary, isolating, and hopeless. But I've witnessed firsthand how EFT can be effective even with couples on the brink of despair."

"Hello, I am a Harvard trained practitioner and Board Certified Coach with more than 30 years experience helping people to make their dreams come true. In our work together we would define where you want to go in your life and how you will get there. You may work on one or more parts of your life. Since 'You are You' wherever you may go, you may find that gains you make in one part of your life can significantly improve other parts too. You will decide which part(s) of your life you want to work on. These may include: Work, Play, Family, Friends, Physical, Emotional, Spiritual, Money, Romance..."

"Are you concerned with your child's behavior? Are you stressed and need counseling in finding a better quality of life? Do you feel the urge to talk to about a significant matter in your life? If you are looking for non-judgmental, empathic, and compassionate support, I am here to help. I am dedicated to creating a safe space where we can work together to help meet your needs and help you in your life. I'm a Graduate Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with experience helping children, adults, and families in addressing diverse mental health and adjustment issues."

"I mainly work with adult clients who are looking to make real and lasting changes in their lives. I am a firm believer in results coming from the therapeutic process and I am a good fit for those who enjoy an interactive and dynamic relationship with their therapist. People come to me when they have relationship issues, pervasive anxiety/panic attacks, low self-esteem, problems with boundaries, work place issues, parenting issues and general dissatisfaction with life. I am not a therapist that just listens, I offer feedback without giving advice, tools for navigating life and psychoeducation."

"Living the life that you have always dreamed of living can at times feel daunting. Having a trusted professional at your side can help you make progress towards your goals and help the process feel better along the way. That is why I consider it my great privilege to help my clients become more aware of their thoughts and feelings and use that awareness to help them follow their own guidance towards the life that they've always yearned for. I support clients through an individual plan of action that blends traditional skills based clinical therapy and mindfulness based approaches."

"We all experience challenging times when we don’t feel like ourselves. We may feel stuck, lost, or experience the same unsatisfying relationships. Engaging in therapy, with the right therapist, can help. Within a supportive and collaborative relationship, I actively work with my clients to better understand themselves and their relationships; to acquire healthy coping strategies; and to achieve an enhanced sense of well-being. I am flexible, tailoring the therapy according to the needs of each client. I bring an integrative approach to psychotherapy that includes insight-oriented work, practical interventions, and cognitive/behavioral techniques, all within a nurturing relationship."

"I work with a wide variety of clients in individual, couples, group and consultation formats.I provide a relationship that promotes respectful, direct expression of our unique human frailties and strengths be they happy, angry, fearful or sad. Psychotherapy is a potent elixir for change. The 'contents' of life provides for each of us at times a 'wild-ride', a 'lazy day', or somewhere in between. I help my clients with the 'process' of life to stay connected with their Self and others on their journeys."

"Difficulties in reaching personal and relational life goals are frustrating and often leave us feeling defeated. These experiences may lead to depression, anxiety, poor self-esteem, and unanswered questions about how to make the changes necessary to improve the quality of our lives."

"**Please note: I am not currently accepting new clients. I will resume taking new clients in January 2019.** Welcome to my practice, located in the heart of Dupont Circle. I offer therapy for individuals of all backgrounds experiencing a range of concerns, including: anxiety, depression, identity issues, relationship challenges, life transitions, grief and loss, adoption-related issues, and more. My style is warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative. I will work with you to help you increase your insight, enhance your relationships, build on your strengths, develop new coping skills, and live a more fulfilling life."

"I consider it a privilege to be part of people's decision to improve their lives. Named one of Washington's Top Doctors by Washingtonian Magazine, I specialize in relationships and anxiety, and helping people cope with stressors ranging from the mundane to the extremes of modern life. Through individual and couples psychotherapy, I help people uncover patterns that may be holding them back, and together work towards implementing new strategies to find more balance, confidence, and joy."

"The primary goal of psychotherapy is to help you to understand what you want and need to make your life more productive, meaningful and fulfilling. Through the process of treatment, you will be able to know yourself better; address and identify current and long-standing difficulties; experience less pain and suffering; alleviate self-defeating behaviors; build and maintain healthier relationships; become more resilient and adaptable to change; and begin to develop a more accurate understanding of your past and what you want for your future. Ultimately, psychotherapy will allow you to become more equipped to lead a healthier life."

"I am a clinically trained psychotherapist who works with trauma, depression, anxiety, grief & loss, life transitions and relationship issues. I believe in a collaborative, safe and thoughtful process that will support you in making healthy and lasting changes. Talking through challenges, and addressing and understanding long held ways of behavior, can help you make the changes you want to make. I am committed to helping you feel safe, engaged and included in the healing process."

"I strive to bring a sense of acceptance, compassion, insight,sometimes humor as well as challenge to the therapeutic relationship. I see the aim of therapy to explore and address those issues that block you from reaching your goals and experiencing a more satisfying and productive life. Whether you are facing challenges in your career, relationships, or in your emotional well-being, we can address specific situations that you are facing today, as well as long-standing patterns or history of painful experiences. I offer a free phone consultation to help you find the right therapist."

"I strive to help my clients feel better, enjoy life, develop satisfying relationships, and find personal success. Psychotherapy is often about building or restoring one's inner compass and finding a way to move through life that is fulfilling, meaningful, and satisfying. People are naturally vibrant and healthy. However, our access to that vibrancy often becomes blocked as we adjust to life's challenges. I work to help my clients gain clarity into how and why they have lost access to meaningful parts of themselves and move towards a life that feels more connected and alive."

"I am a British Couples Psychotherapist specializing in relationship and sexual issues. If you want positive change in your communication, conflicts, sexual difficulties, an affair and its aftermath, divorce or separation or loss of intimacy, I can help you. I truly understand the need for a safe, confidential and empathic environment, to be able to trust your therapist, to be listened to and understood, so that together we are able to resolve or manage the problems and issues you are having with your partner. Take the first step to getting the relationship you deserve - call me to make an appointment."

"The people I've worked with over the years have come with various problems: difficulty growing up, grieving the loss of an important person, inability to find a direction in life, regret over past relationships and despair about finding someone to love, overpowering anxiety seemingly connected to nothing specific, questions around sexuality. Whatever the problem, my method is usually pretty much the same. I try to make a real contact and to understand what is going on, considering a person's whole life story. After that, we work together to overcome the stumbling blocks to personal development and happiness."

"My practice is devoted to providing psychotherapy for adolescents and adults from diverse walks of life. I treat clients who suffer from depression, anxiety, unresolved trauma, loss, grief, and other sources of seemingly unmanageable distress. I also help clients navigate specific life transitions -- for example, to a new school, job, relationship, or parenthood. Finally, I welcome clients who are experiencing relatively diffuse, general discontent and searching for greater fulfillment with respect to their health, relationships, education, job career, or creative endeavors."