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Our directory of diverse therapists are available for convenient and accessible online therapy. Finding the right mental health therapist in your local area is critical to your overall health.
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The therapists work collaboratively with clients to identify actionable lifestyle, developmental and culturally appropriate interventions within the context of each clients’ psychological, cultural, social, and developmental histories. TPBHN provides administrative, billing and credentialing support to these therapists so that they can be fully devoted to your health and care.
Therapists
Alannah Muhammad
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Alannah takes a preventative and treatment focused approach to supporting teens and young adults and working through psychological stress and mental health disorders that are caused, maintained or exacerbated by relationships,​ early life experiences, substance use, and some developmental challenges. Her therapy process, and gauges clients in exploration to deepen insight into the cause and purpose of certain behavior, mood, and cognitive patterns. She then focuses on working with clients to resolve what may have caused these once helpful patterns and collaborate with them to identify practical steps that they can implement towards engaging with themselves, others and their environment in a way that feels more fulfilling for them.
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Emily Worthington
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
In working with teenagers and adults through trauma, hurt, betrayal, abuse, apathy, transitions, identity exploration, difficulty with daily functioning, parenting, mood changes, and worry Emily helps client gain insight and develop skills to manage or overcome these challenges..Emily assists with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, trigger identification, implementation of coping skills and interpersonal effectiveness as clients work through planned and unplanned life changes; addiction and substance use; unresolved chronic stress; grief and loss; sadness, worry around pregnancy, work stress and pressure from expectations within the family; and day-today stress.
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Matthew Waybright, LGPC
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Matthew works with clients to explore, understand and address mental health disorders, day-to-day stress and past experiences that affect their thought, behavioral, relational, mood patterns, hygiene, functioning and wellbeing. Together you'll explore to gain understanding of the function of some of your patterns and work to alleviate or eliminate distress such as worry, sadness, impulsivity, grief, avoidance and more. You'll address the here-and-now, past experiences and plan for the future.
Fatima Boyette
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Fatima collaborates with individuals to reframe thoughts, instill hope, improve self awareness, have self-compassion, gain clarity, feel empowered and build resilience. ​She's knowledgeable and passionate about cultural and identity related issues and provides counseling to address the needs of those who face discrimination, oppression and systemic negligence. You'll explore and address how a diagnosis and daily experiences affect thoughts, mood, behavior, relationships and self-esteem and identify unique strategies to alleviate or eliminate the effects of these things.
Sydnee supports the treatment and prevention of mental health disorders in adolescents, couples and families, young adults and those in middle adulthood. Her clients work through confusion about identities, discontentment about career, decreased motivation or concentration, persistent worry or rumination and sadness. She teaches regulation, mindfulness communication, behavioral and cognitive skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), solution-focused, psychodynamic, family systems work, Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT therapy) and more.
Krystal King, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
With a focus on addressing the here and now while processing the past, Krystal works with young and middle aged adults living with anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, mood disorders and more. Her clients are those experiencing psychological effects of transitions; family life; chronic illness; identity; relationships and attachment; struggling with imposter syndrome, self-efficacy, perfectionism, and debilitating worry; and experiencing stress or any psychological disturbances (e.g., depression, anxiety) that are preventing healthy relationships, work satisfaction, peace and contentment, self control and mood stability.
Onyeka Onyekwere, LGPC
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
You'll benefit from Onyeka's individualized therapeutic approach that leads to deeper understanding of and ability to manage behavior, mood and thoughts. Therapy will equip you to improve self-regulation, emotion identification, identity, managing overwhelm, increased ability to manage stress and distress, resilience and distress tolerance, and increased ability to navigate intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. She is trained in dialectical behavioral therapy, attachment theory, solution focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, person-centered therapy and trauma focused therapy.
Gardenia LOuve yao
Associate Counselor
240-428-0465
Gardenia works with teens and adult clients across the spectrum of gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, developmental stage or age, and race. She understands how culture, family-of-origin, past experiences or expectations/roles inform current cognitive emotional and behavioral patterns. She considers how systems and structure intersect with mental health. She administers assessments for trauma, depression, anxiety, substance use, mood disorders and more. Her clients explore their triggers and responses and identify new cognitive, emotional and behavioral strategies
Mirshelle Edwards, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Mirshelle provides assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to help manage and/or eliminate the effects of mental health disorders and psychological issues. Her expertise and interests include identity development and exploration, anxiety, relationship trauma, depression, mood regulation, early adulthood, PTSD, self-worth ADHD, transitions, school or career stress, trauma, discrimination and issues related to LGBTQIA or BIPOC identity and more. Therapy will also introduce the cognitive triad (relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors), behavioral techniques, and behavior modification.
Ama Kwadu, LCPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Family relationships, postpartum difficulties, transitions, worry, school and work stress, sadness, immigrant experiences, discrimination based on identity, persistent self-doubt and trauma are some of the things Ama supports individuals through. As an EMDR trained, provider Ama works takes a trauma focused approach in her work. Her clients are able to increase distress tolerance; improve communication and relationships; ​develop assertiveness and autonomy; address family-of-origin challenges; adjust to life transitions; resolve trauma and more. I create use evidence-based assessment tools for diagnosis and collaborate with you to create treatment goals.
Simran Puri
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Simran works with teens and adults to identify long terms strategies to decrease the impact of trauma and grief, address frequent sadness and worry; address behavioral issues; improve concentration, structure and procrastination; heal experiences with parental neglect neglect and abandonment; address irrational thinking patterns and resolve patterns of staying in unsatisfying relationships. She will incorporate your values, faith and cultural practices and belief systems.
Safiyya Abdul Bari, LMSW
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Safi works with adolescents and adults living with the stress of school or work; immigrant experiences and other identity experiences; grief, guilt and shame; family of origin and relationship challenges; anxiety, depression; PTSD; bipolar disorder; neurodivergence and more. She develops a treatment plan with each client to track the progression of the intensity, duration and frequency of symptoms. She seeks to enhance the individual’s mental health, so they are able to reach their potential mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Emma Mattingly, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Emma collaborates with teens and adult clients to develop an increased capacity to resolve and manage the psychological impact of family dynamics; experiences with the military; identity; family of origin; dissatisfaction in relationships; transitions; work stress/burnout; pressure and expectations and more. You will gain understanding about yourself, learn self-compassion, enhance distrss tolerance; reduce the intensity, frequency and duration of symptoms and gain long-term coping skills.
Sarah Cardenas, LGPC
Psychotherapist
240-428-0465
Sarah blends social justice and clinical frameworks to support clients in self-exploration, affirming identities, confronting the impact of biases and discrimination, resolve how family systems affect them psychologically and build or strengthen interpersonal relationships. She helps discover the unconscious thoughts and unresolved experiences and feelings behind their beliefs, decisions, desires and behaviors. She prioritizes establishing trust, emotional/psychological safety and having a collaborative therapeutic relationship.
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Lucy Freshour, LGPC
Psyhcotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Lucy's clinical practice focuses on working on managing ASD and ADHD, life transitions, young adult issues, family of origin dynamics and trauma, anxiety related to validation/people pleasing and relationships, career and education stressors and overall mental health. She incorporates concepts that help people change or modify dysfunctional thought, emotional and behavior patterns that affect work/school, relationships, self-esteem and daily functioning. She embrace AAPI, LGBTQ+ & BIPOC identities and relationships and helps clients move toward emotional and physical safety, radical acceptance.
Taylor Gordon
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Taylor uses solution focused therapy to address the here-and-now; attachment frameworks for relationship challenges; mindfulness approaches to manage impulses; distress tolerance to regulate mood; cognitive frameworks for thinking patterns that cause distress and overall emphasize culture and its effects on mental health. She works with clients to explore and address things in the here and now and also take a look at how past events, relationships and environments might be informing emotions, thoughts, behaviors and wellbeing.​