My primary clinical specialty is acute stress and traumatic stress in response to life events and life transitions. Informed by: (1) my in-depth studies of trauma, grief and bereavement; (2) my own experience with traumatic perinatal loss and stress; and (3) my cultural, religious, spiritual and holistic wellness studies and practices, I take an integrative approach to this kind of support that is structured, holistic, and personalized.
For those experiencing significant clinical distress across multiple domains of functioning, I offer an intensive experience that begins with 18 sessions over 8 weeks. The primary goal during this time is to strengthen, deepen, and expand your current adaptive ways of coping in order to reduce the intensity of your stress reactions across physiological, sensory & perceptual, emotional, cognitive-behavioral, and social areas to sub-clinical levels.
Although I can make no guarantees, my clients who enroll in my intensive tend to report noteworthy decreases in symptoms by the end of the first two weeks of our work together.
Those who are not acutely distressed can enroll in an initial 8-12 sessions over 8 weeks.
After the initial 8 weeks of support, all clients are invited to open-ended counseling, where we continue to work on keeping your stress levels at bay while we explore deeper matters of post-event/transition existence, identity, and meaning.
A variety of nature-based walk & talk, somatic, expressive art, humanistic, emotion-focused, and cognitive-behavioral interventions (including DBT informed interventions), are incorporated into this work. I also integrate interventions coming out of the Black Church religious tradition- namely gospel, scriptural, and sermonic meditations.
Fee for Therapy: $175/50-Minute Session
I am an In-Network provider with Aetna and an Out-of-Network provider with CareFirst BCBS, Other Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans, Optum, United Healthcare, and Cigna. Out-of-Network insurance plan holders take two easy steps to have part of my fee reimbursed:
(1) Meet the Out-of-Network plan deductible;
(2) Electronically submit my "Superbills" for reimbursement through Reimbursify. Receive reimbursement in as fast as a couple of weeks.
I accept employer sponsored HSA cards, FSA cards, and all major credit cards for out-of-network/private pay payment. My counseling service is available everywhere in Maryland.
Counseling Materials Included with Eight Week Intensive Traumatic Stress Counseling Fee:
Relaxation Playlist
Spa Resources
Seasonal Therapeutic Encounters with Nature Journal
Art Materials
Art/Writing Journal
Grief One Day at a Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss (or alternative text)
Grief/Stress Journey Audio Psychoeducation Library
Supportive Black Church Sermonic Library
Gospel Music Sound Healing Playlist
The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Version
Lamentations & Hope Card Deck
Counseling Materials Included with Non-Intensive Eight Session Counseling Fee:
Relaxation Playlist
Spa Resources
Seasonal Therapeutic Encounters with Nature Journal
Art Materials
Art/Writing Journal
Grief One Day at a Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss (or alternative text)
Grief/Stress Journey Audio Psychoeducation Library
Supportive Black Church Sermonic Library
Gospel Music Sound Healing Playlist
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