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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.
Jasmin Alostaz, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Jasmin uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) for trauma; 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.​
Quiara Boalds
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Quiara 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.
Fiona 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.
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Rebeca Yohros, LGPC
Psychotherapist
240-428-0465
Rebeca works with teenage and adult clients across the spectrum of gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, developmental stage or age, and race. She understands how past experiences or relationships inform current relationship dynamics, ways of viewing people and situations, identity and cognitive emotional and behavioral patterns. She considers how systems and structure intersect with mental health. She’s an EMDR trained provider who offers specialized care for clients living with trauma, depression, anxiety, substance use, mood disorders and more. Her clients explore their triggers and responses and identify new cognitive, emotional and behavioral strategies
Racquel Sparks
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Racquel uses CBT, DBT, ACT, attachment Person Centered Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), along with motivational therapy, support of self-determination and strengths-based approaches to support individuals. She works with clients living with anxiety, substance use, grief and loss, depression, relationship trauma, life transitions and adjustment, behavioral challenges, ADHD and more. She uses a multicultural approach to understand the difficulties Latinx, BIPOC, AAPI, LGBTQ+ and other minorities are experiencing from the unique individual and cultural perspective. You'll leave each session with a sense of progress, accomplishment, and insight into your cognitive patterns, mental health & behavioral goals.
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.
Alem Asefa, LCPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Alem supports adult clients in exploring, processing and deciding "what next" as it related to the experiences and/or relationships that inform their current mood, behavior, cognitive and relational patterns. Her clients identify long term strategies. She works with teenagers and adults to manage the psychological impact of illness, grief and loss, life experiences, transitions, family-of-origin difficulties, anxiety, school/work stress, immigrant and multicultural identity, depression, substance use and PTSD. She uses therapeutic frameworks based on clients' need to decrease negative thoughts and undesired behaviors and increase distress tolerance; improve communication effectiveness.
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.
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.
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Simon Walsh, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Simon works with adult, male and LGBTQIA+ clients to reduce the cognitive, emotional and behavioral impact of transitions; anxiety; exploring and achieving a pleasurable sex life; challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals; education and career complications; men's issues; relationships; depression, mood changes; self-esteem, shame, isolation and more. With sensitivity to contextual and sociocultural factors, you'll construct solutions rather than focus on problems; discover resources to activate change; and address dysfunctional relational patterns.
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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.
Marvida Lake, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Marvida guides adult clients toward insight and provides coping strategies for those who are living with anxiety, depression, trauma, sadness, parenting and caretaker stress, mood changes, relationship stress, addiction, abuse, adjustment disorder, grief, and loss. Her clients learn to establish and improve boundaries to promote holistic wellness. Clients experience her as engaged, attentive, unbiased direct, accepting, caring, authentic, relatable and attentive.
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.
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.
Victoria Yeboah, LMSW
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Victoria collaborates with teenagers who are living with anxiety, depression, identity and related stress, trauma, family of origin and relationship stressors, life transitions, education and career stress, grief and loss. Her clients clients learn to establish and improve boundaries to promote holistic wellness. She takes time to understand an individual from their/his/her own unique biological, social/emotional, familial, cultural, and environmental experiences and the systems that impact each client.
Natalia Schuermann
Counseling Associate
240-428-0465
Natalia's clients are looking to manage or eliminate stress related to marriage, internal questions regarding sense of self and identity, immigration and cultural, social, and psychological experiences, marital and family relationships, school/career, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, trauma and more. She works with clients to process their previous and current experiences; gain awareness, harness strengths; improve mood; learn and implement coping strategies; develop communication; explore identity, resolve conflict, and more. The explore the past and address thee present day challenges toward better overall wellbeing.
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.
Luis Ocampo, LGPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Luis uses evidence-based theories, including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-based Theory, and Psychodynamic and Mindfulness practices. As a bilingual (English and Spanish) he works with BIPOC, AAPI, Latinx, LGBTQ+ (diverse) clients on experiences related to identity in all its forms, ADHD and neurodivergence, pressure from expectations, discrimination, shame, transitions, socioeconomic stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and/or abuse, racial, ethic and cultural identity, and relationships.
Solange Toussaint, LCPC
Psychotherapist, Contractor
240-428-0465
Solange supports clients to identify and modify unsatisfactory patterns, navigate transitions and dynamics in relationships; manage the impact of pregnancy, delivery and parenthood; process and manage grief and loss; explore immigrant experiences and womanhood; and identify and address life events that contribute to depression, trauma anxiety, bipolar disorder and more. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical behavior therapy, trauma-informed care and more. Clients benefit from her supportive validation, compassionate questions, direct communication and practical feedback.