We are currently in-network providers for CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and Johns Hopkins EHP. Depending on your current health insurance provider or employee benefit plan, it is possible for services to be covered in full or in part. Please contact your insurance carrier to verify how your plan compensates you for psychotherapy services. We recommend asking these questions to your insurance provider to help determine your benefits: Does my health insurance plan include mental health benefits? Do I have a deductible? If so, what is it and have I met it yet? Does my plan limit how many sessions per calendar year I can have? If so, what is the limit? Do I need written approval from my primary care physician in order for services to be covered?

We accept cash and all major credit cards as forms of payment.

If you are unable to attend a session, please ensure that you cancel at least 24 hours before your scheduled appointment. Otherwise, you may be charged a fee.

In the initial session, we will review your intake form and identify goals for treatment and what you want to work on. It is a collaborative process where we can decide if individual LGBTQ or couples therapy may be more appropriate to address your primary concerns.

If, for example, your relationships are often steeped in shame or judgment, we will begin by exploring the trauma you’ve experienced in relationships and the unhealthy coping strategies that you have developed as a result. An examination of the family dynamic you were raised in will also help to understand your current behaviors that are less than useful in relationships.

As we continue working together, we will focus on solutions. We will also provide you with helpful strategies for managing interpersonal conflict, having difficult conversations, and stating and negotiating boundaries. Therapy can also identify ways to improve your self-esteem and reduce your critical or self-destructive thoughts.

If you are struggling with your gender or sexual identity, therapy can help you process your complicated interpersonal relationships and express your thoughts freely in the presence of a supportive and knowing other.

Our therapists are well-trained in a variety of approaches, including Relational Psychodynamic Theory and trauma-focused therapies like Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). Each of these modalities can help you control the more troubling symptoms related to past traumas. We also use emotion-focused and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT-based approaches for couples/relationship therapy.

Our goal is to help you to recognize your own feelings and reactions and then how to use those sources of data to inform your behavioral choices. You will learn more about yourself, such as your relational style, defenses, and unhealthy coping strategies. For example, if you struggle with compulsive behaviors, including overeating or symptoms of OCD, you will learn where your urges originated. Once you understand the root cause, you can redirect the underlying emotions that create unwelcome behavior.

Therapy can help you communicate your needs and boundaries with others and live authentically. We want you to have more meaningful relationships where you can be open and vulnerable with others as well and honored and seen by them.