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Life Transitions

Therapy for Life Transitions

The shape of your life changes, but everyone still expects you to keep the whole thing moving.

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Therapy sessions are held by secure video for adults located in Maryland.

Life Transitions

The In-Between Can Be Hard

Parenting changes. An aging parent needs more help. A marriage changes shape or ends. Your children leave home, or your work asks something new of you. Even wanted change can bring uncertainty.

Day to day, a transition can make familiar roles feel uncertain. Parenting changes, caregiving responsibilities grow, work shifts or a relationship takes a different shape. You may be making practical decisions while also holding mixed feelings about what has ended and what comes next. If you are usually the person who keeps everything moving, there may be little room to notice your own response. Even a change you wanted can add to the planning, emotional labor and responsibility already on your list. Therapy offers space to name that complexity without forcing it into one simple feeling.

Life Transitions

What Is Yours to Carry?

Together we can name what this season is asking of you and what you have been carrying out of habit. You can care deeply about the people in your life without losing your place in it.

In sessions, we can begin with the heaviest weights in this season and listen for the thought themes surrounding them. CBT is my foundation, including looking at beliefs about what you should carry or how quickly you should adjust. DBT and ACT skills can help make room for difficult feelings while you decide what matters now. Somatic and mindfulness tools can support awareness when stress is building. Resilience skills I am certified by the U.S. Army to teach may also fit. Accountability and intentional homework can turn one insight into a manageable practice between sessions.

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Can Therapy Help When the Change Was My Choice?

Yes. A wanted change can still bring uncertainty, responsibility and mixed feelings. You can begin with what this season is asking of you and what you have continued to carry out of habit.

Life Transitions

Find Your Footing

I listen for patterns, offer practical tools and help you try one manageable shift at a time. There is room here for mixed feelings and for the person you are becoming.

A free consultation is a place to describe the change in your own words and ask whether my approach fits. You do not need to know exactly what the next chapter should look like. If we work together, sessions are available by secure video anywhere in Maryland, Monday to Friday, at $175 per session. I accept UnitedHealthcare, UMR, Optum, Aetna, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and self pay. I verify your benefits before our first session, so there are no surprises. Reduced-fee options may be available. Ask about eligibility in your free consultation.