Are you looking for a psychologist in Friendship Heights, D.C.?

One of my specialties is helping people work through their negative relationship dynamics, including romantic, family, professional and social. I am the author of the Relationship Formula Workbook Series, which is a series of 4 brief workbooks that highlight key areas of growth to improve your relationship tool kit—Building Self-Esteem, Breaking Up & Divorce, Toxic Love, and Getting Close to Others.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a therapeutic approach developed by Marsha Linehan. DBT blends behavioral problem solving with acceptance-based strategies, and an emphasis on dialectical processes.

Panic attacks are episodes of intense fear and can often result from a chronic overload of anxiety. I help individuals to understand the underlying beliefs involved in the panic and to develop alternate ways to cope and manage panic symptoms.

Anxiety can take on a variety of different forms depending on the individual. Oftentimes people who come into therapy for anxiety because they experience excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation) over a number of events in their life (work, children, relationships, finances, activities) and the source of the worry can change from day-to-day.

I help clients to develop strategies and techniques for managing feeling chronically overloaded by work and personal stress. These techniques include talk therapy, mindfulness, and limit setting. Stress is a result of feeling like your capacity is far smaller than what life is throwing at you and feeling that you cannot possibly work on growing your capacity because life keeps throwing more and more turmoil your way.

Like all psychotherapy, couples therapy is a process, but one in which I work to help both members of a partnership to feel heard while also working for measurable change that couples can notice and know when they are making progress.

Most people face some sort of struggle with their self-esteem at some point in their life. These struggles are a natural part of the human experience. Long-term feelings of inadequacy, ongoing self-criticism, and constant feelings of “not good enough” can be helped by therapy. Chronic self-esteem issues can effect every aspect of a person’s life, including friendships, romantic connections, professional goals and overall contentment.

Some clients report difficulty with their attention span and trouble concentrating. I help these individuals develop strategies (sometimes with the addition of medication as prescribed by a psychiatrist) to increase executive functioning, planning and follow through skills.