AREAS OF THERAPY
Areas of therapy
Below is what our clinicians work with, who we work with, and the methods we use. If what's going on for you isn't listed, call anyway — this is a list, not a limit.
AXIS ONE
Who we work with
FORMAT
WHO IT'S FOR
SESSION
TYPICAL CADENCE
Individual therapy — adults
Adults 18+
50 min
Weekly, then tapering
Individual therapy — older adults
Adults 65+; grief, health changes, isolation, caregiving, life review
50 min
Weekly or biweekly
Individual therapy — adolescents
Roughly 13–17, with parent involvement calibrated to the teen's needs
50 min
Weekly
Therapy for children
Roughly 5–12, often play-based, with substantial parent participation
45–50 min
Weekly
Couples counseling
Married, unmarried, engaged, long-term, separated or reconciling partners
50–80 min
Weekly to start
Premarital counseling
Couples preparing to marry or move in together
50 min
Short structured series
Discernment counseling
Couples where one partner is leaning out and they aren't sure whether to work on it
50–120 min
Short, time-limited
Family therapy
Parents and children, siblings, adult children and parents, blended and co-parenting families
50–80 min
Weekly or biweekly
Parent sessions / parent coaching
Parents working on their own approach, with or without the child present
50 min
Weekly or as needed
Group therapy
Process and psychoeducational groups
60–90 min
​Weekly series
Medication management
Psychiatric evaluation and ongoing prescribing
45–60 initial / 15–25 follow-up
Monthly to quarterly
Virtual therapy
Any of the above, by secure video, anywhere in Maryland
Same
Same
AXIS TWO
What brings people in
Every item below is something our clinicians work with.
Mood and anxiety
Trauma and its aftermath
Grief, loss and transition
Relationships and couples
Family and parenting
Children and adolescents
Self, identity and daily life
Health, behavior and stress
Note: eating-concerns and substance-use entries link to their service pages, not to any self-assessment tool, symptom checklist, or severity quiz. No screening instruments of any kind are published on this site.
AXIS THREE
How we work
Publish only what a clinician on staff is credentialed and trained to deliver.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Identifying the thought patterns that drive how you feel and act, testing whether they hold up, and practicing different responses. Structured, active, and among the most heavily researched approaches available.
Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
A structured, evidence-based adaptation of CBT for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma, with a caregiver involved throughout.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
A focused protocol for post-traumatic stress that works on the beliefs a traumatic event left behind — about safety, trust, control, and blame.
Prolonged Exposure (PE)
Gradual, carefully paced approach to the memories and situations that have been avoided since a trauma, so they lose their grip.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Uses bilateral stimulation while recalling a distressing memory to help the brain file it as past rather than present. Effective for trauma, and doesn't require describing every detail out loud.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for tolerating distress, regulating intense emotion, and navigating relationships without things blowing up. Built for people whose feelings arrive fast and large.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Rather than fighting difficult thoughts, learning to hold them differently and act according to what you actually value.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Starts from what's already working and builds on it. Short, practical, goal-directed.
Motivational Interviewing
A collaborative way of working through ambivalence about change, without being lectured or pushed. Central to substance use work and useful anywhere someone is stuck between two options.
Person-Centered Therapy
The foundation underneath most of the rest: unconditional regard, deep listening, and the working relationship itself as the instrument of change.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Looking at how earlier relationships and out-of-awareness patterns are shaping current ones. Better suited to long-standing patterns than acute crisis.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Working with the different “parts” of yourself — the critic, the protector, the part that shuts down — as understandable responses rather than defects.
Narrative Therapy
Separating the person from the problem and re-examining the story someone has been told, or has been telling, about their own life.
Mindfulness-based approaches
Training attention to the present moment to reduce reactivity, rumination and relapse.
Behavioral Activation
For depression: rebuilding activity and contact with things that matter, on the evidence that action reliably precedes motivation rather than waiting on it.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
The frontline treatment for OCD. Facing the trigger while resisting the compulsion, until the anxiety stops requiring the ritual.
Play Therapy
For younger children, whose natural language is play rather than conversation.
​Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Research-based couples work with specific tools for conflict, friendship and shared meaning, built on decades of observational research into what distinguishes stable relationships.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
For couples and families. Works on the attachment needs underneath the argument, rather than the argument itself.
Structural and strategic family therapy
Changing how a family is organized — boundaries, hierarchies, alliances — rather than treating one member as the problem.
Bowen family systems
Looking at multigenerational patterns and how they're still operating in the present household.
Attachment-based family therapy
Repairing the parent–child bond as the mechanism of change, particularly with depressed or withdrawn adolescents.
Parent management training / parent–child work
Coaching parents directly in strategies for behavior, structure and connection.
Group therapy
Process and psychoeducational groups. Some things only change in front of other people who understand.
Culturally responsive and trauma-informed care
Not a modality but the frame everything else sits in: your background, identity, faith and history are part of the clinical picture, and safety and choice come before technique.
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