Individual Therapy

Do you struggle with intense emotions such as anger, sadness, or shame?  Feelings of chronic emptiness, numbness, or existential dread? 

Do you struggle with impulses or destructive behavior?  Feeling out of sync with others or the world?  

Trauma from childhood attachment wounds, abuse and neglect, chronic invalidation, and loss can become stored in our minds and bodies and manifest in difficult to understand intense emotional states, numbness, or destructive behaviors.  We often experience shame around these experiences, yet often any of our present struggles can best be understood as adaptations to trauma or loss that helped us survive.  

Individual therapy may include using trauma therapy approaches such as EMDR, Brainspotting, somatics, safe and sound protocol, parts work including Internal Family Systems (IFS), and relational psychotherapy to help clients access, reprocess, and integrate trauma memories and states as well as develop and increase their access to inner resources and adaptive information.  This can free us to be able to engage in new ways with ourselves and the world as we release old patterns and beliefs and create the neural structures associated with integration and secure attachment.  

Individual therapy may also include person-centered and supportive psychotherapy grounded in embracing authenticity, navigating neurodivergence including Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, HSP (High Sensitivity), and dissociative experiences, and building a life that works.

DBT-informed, existential, and acceptance-based therapy approaches may be integrated according to client needs and preferences.

No matter where you’ve been or what you’ve been told, You are Welcome Here.

Please reach out to take the first step towards healing!

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Our approach

Our approach to therapy is unapologetically affirming, collaborative, and strengths-focused. 

We believe that current challenges are opportunities to heal and grow. 

As trauma therapists, we seek to sit with our clients in the hard places, bringing warmth and authenticity, and providing relational safety and containment to allow clients to do the hard word of reconnecting with the exiled or frightened parts of themselves.  

If you feel hopeless, I will hold the hope for you.  If you struggle with anger, shame, or deep and confusing pain, I will join you there.  There is nothing so terrible that cannot be seen, named, and healed in the context of a strong and affirming therapeutic relationship.

We may be great fits for anyone who has felt stuck or misunderstood in previous therapy or who feels that they are too much.   

Please reach out for a free consult if you’d like to learn more!

 FAQs

  • Therapy and coaching are collaborative processes. Please reach out for a free consultation to share what challenges you are experiencing and what your goals are and Emily will be happy to make recommendations about what services may be beneficial.

    Recommended services may include individual talk therapy, individual trauma therapy (EMDR, Brainspotting, IFS, etc), neurodivergence-affirming therapy, DBT-informed therapy, Safe and Sound Protocol for nervous system regulation, or parent coaching. Emily may also refer to other or coordinating providers.

  • Yes! Extended sessions can be a great way to engage in trauma processing. Emily offers extended therapy sessions using EMDR, Attachment-Focused EMDR, and IFS / parts work integration.

    Currently Emily offers Brainspotting in 45-60 minute sessions only.

  • Both virtual (telehealth) and in-person psychotherapy and parent coaching services are offered. I work with virtual therapy clients in Maryland and Virginia. My office is located in Bethesda, Maryland near 495 and Old Georgetown Rd

  • We offer in-person therapy our offices in Bethesda, Maryland and Arnold, Maryland.

    Offices are located at:

    5652 Shields Drive Bethesda, MD 20817 and

    1298 Bay Dale Drive Suite 211, Arnold MD 21012.

    We also offer virtual therapy to clients located in Maryland and Virginia.

    Consultation services are available nationwide.

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Start with a free 20 minute consultation.

Please use this form to request a free 20 minute consultation.

Once we have received your request, please allow us 1-2 business days to reply.