No, you're not crazy and there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with you! Relationships require work but maybe you’re working harder than ever and still coming up short. Still left feeling overwhelmed with emotion or anxious, angry, and confused. I get it, it's challenging, but it doesn't have to be a constant balancing act in which you’re trying to effectively manage your career, social life, family, or dating, constantly shifting yet never feeling steady. Maybe you’ve had some life transitions –a new job, recent relocation, the loss of a loved one. Change shouldn't have to feel like you'll break down at any moment.

We all have places where we struggle. We all have behaviors or emotions that limit us in living our most fulfilled and joyous life. Sometimes we need help making changes. Together we will explore what you want within yourself and your relationships to create positive changes.

Katharine is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the state of Virginia with a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology. Katharine is a native to the Washington, DC area, attending Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart for high school and receiving her Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Health Sciences from Marymount University. Katharine hopes to help her patients feel self-worth and make progress towards healthy and meaningful lives.

I work with individuals and couples and specialize in treating depression, anxiety, loss and grief, life transition, and relationship difficulties. My counseling style is strongly relational with an emphasis on your individual healing, growth, and personal development. My goal is to provide a caring and safe environment where you can feel connected, speak honestly, and discover ways to solve problems as well as bring about emotional freedom and psychological growth. I believe that most of our difficulties come abount in the context of personal relationships and that psychotherapy is a way to learn new positive ways of relating. I

What do women want? Do you realize that a woman's feminine identity is built on three generations of women in the family? Your identification with your mother, her identification with her mother, all get passed on from one woman to the next. Throughout the span of a women's life, a constant redefinition evolves. This depends on the totality of experiences in life, in love, in maternity, and at work. Your understanding of what you internalized from your mother's feminity is key to your sense of identity. For a man, your sexual identity rest on the mother's father, and your own father for identification. Complicated.

Welcome! I focus on creating a warm, collaborative relationship with each client that comes through my door (or nowadays through my computer screen via Zoom!). While I work with the entire age range, my specialty population is teens through young adults. I offer a wide range of evidence-based therapies that are tailored to your needs; some people benefit from the direct, structured approach of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) while others respond well to open-ended insight-oriented processing.

Hello. It is a pleasure to introduce my practice to you. I specialize in treating relationship problems, developmental adjustment difficulties, depression, anxiety and survivors of trauma. All of us need support from time to time to develop new ways of living fuller, richer and more satisfying lives. Contact me so that we may discuss how I may be of help.

Because anxiety is treatable, you can be assured of help. Beginning with a diagnostic and eduational appointment, and taking into consideration your biological, psychological and environmental uniqueness, we will develop a plan that is designed to successfully treat your anxiety. For 20 years, I was the clinical director of a nationally recognized anxiety treatment center. My approach is based largely on the theories delevoped by the scientists and clinicians at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. These treatment protocols and proven techniques can help you understand and move forward toward relief from crippling anxiety.

Time spent playing with a child is never wasted. I am passionate about helping children through play therapy techniques using a person-centered approach. In addition, I enjoy working with teens, young adults, and parents. As a counselor, I aspire to create a safe, nonjudgmental environment for my clients to explore both their strengths and vulnerabilities while working towards mental wellness and happiness.

I have experience working with adolescents, teenagers, and adults in individual and group settings. I believe in tailoring treatment based upon their strengths and goals. I am dedicated to maximizing clients' strengths in order to address issues such as depression, anxiety, life transitions, women's health, body image issues, eating disorders, peer relations, and self-harm.

For the past 15 years, I have been committed to working with preschool and school-aged children and their families who are struggling with anxiety and other emotional and behavioral regulation difficulties. I also support children and families through the complicated emotions of divorce, adoption, and other losses as well as the stress and threats to self-esteem that can accompany learning challenges, ADHD and social difficulties. I partner comprehensively with children, parents, schools, and other involved professionals with the aim of building the strongest possible foundation from which children can grow and thrive.

I firmly believe an atmosphere of warmth and authenticity helps lead to a constructive, yet positive growth outcome for all individuals. Using an approach geared to address a person’s individual needs, I meet an individual where they are at and help the individual progress towards positive life change. My passion is working with children and adolescents. I work with children and teens experiencing emotional and/or behavioral disturbances, which include but are not limited, to ADHD, depression, anxiety, anger management, and trauma. I want to help children and their families work together to address these problems and find a resolution that adequately fits the needs of both the child and the family.

I work with children who experience anxiety, sensory overwhelm, trouble getting to sleep after an exciting day, difficulty with changes in routine, are deeply attuned to others’ distress, and feel things very deeply. Highly sensitive children often are very attuned to their environment, have intense emotional responses, and struggle to emotionally regulate when they become overstimulated. Their sensitivity to the world around them can be a gift, but it can also lead to frequent over-stimulation and an increased need for quiet time.

Feelings of depression and anxiety are disabling and frightening. Relationship and work challenges leave one feeling overwhelmed, stressed and discouraged from achieving personal goals. As an experienced psychotherapist I offer a warm & welcoming atmosphere. I have a high level of skill and range of interventions that help people find and reach their goals for feeling and functioning better than ever. I rely on established principles and ethics that honor confidentiality, have a sensitive client centered approach and a style that is grounded in empathy and atunement. Working comfortably with a skilled therapist is an essential part of the change process

If you’re considering therapy, chances are there are aspects of your life that aren’t going well. Maybe your relationships are unfulfilling. Maybe you’re having a hard time adjusting to a change or traumatic experience. Maybe you’ve been feeling down, on edge, or defeated. Maybe you blame yourself for your problems. Maybe you’re not even sure why, but you know you’re not as satisfied as you want to be. Therapy is a place where you can better understand the issues that are getting in the way of your happiness, explore options for a more fulfilling future, and get support as you contemplate change or adjust to a difficult reality.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I received my undergraduate degree in psychology from Tulane University in New Orleans, before completing my graduate training in Community and Agency Counseling from George Mason University. I have extensive experience providing psychological services to adults, children, adolescents, and families of the greater metropolitan area. Throughout my career, I have been able to support families looking to overcome significant mental health, behavioral, and substance-related issues.

Life can be wonderful, but it can also present us with many challenges. Whether you are dealing with relationship issues, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, a major life transition or stressful life event, adolescent or parenting issues, or simply want a better understanding of yourself and others, therapy can be a helpful journey to bring about healing, insight and change. As a therapist with over 12 years of experience, my therapeutic style would best be described as integrative, as I draw from a variety of perspectives and techniques including CBT, psychodynamic, solution focused, trauma informed, family systems and play therapy.

I am a licensed professional counselor (LPC) that specializes in helping patients overcome issues related to anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance use disorders, family conflict and grief. I also have a special interest and experience helping young adults and high school students struggling with life transitions (college, adulthood etc.), performance and relationships. Whether working with adolescents, school-age children, or adults, I look forward to working with you and helping you and/or a loved one emerge from any life obstacles or issues.

I provide psychotherapy services for children, adolescents, adults, and families, in addition to facilitating social skills groups. I specialize in working with children and adolescents on the autistic spectrum and with other developmental delays. I also treat children and adults struggling with sensory integration, anxiety, depression, ADHD, divorce, adjustment disorders, and parenting and relational issues.

In therapy, I use an assimilative-integrative approach to best meet the unique needs of my clients. My approach emphasizes a client-centered, but systemic orientation. I use evidence-based treatments that are informed by cognitive-behavioral, developmental, and relational/attachment theories. I work to build open and warm relationships with my clients and I honor the ways in which one's background and culture inform our work. Therapy is a collaborative process meant to foster positive change as my clients and families develop more compassion for themselves and one another.