Empowering you on your holistic healing journey to create a fulfilling, authentic life and transform your relationships.
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Sage & Fifth Therapy Place is a mindfulness based Holistic Psychotherapy practice in Washington, DC, Maryland & Virginia that emerged from seeing a need for holistic healing in our lives, as individuals, as couples and as a community.
If you’ve been in therapy before and feel like you’ve only gotten so far or are simply looking for more support and impactful shifts in yourself and your life then you’ve come to the right place. Many of our clients choose us because we not only create a safe space for our clients to talk through their struggles and gain insights, but we also empower our clients to make impactful changes in their life to overcome the distressing cycles they feel stuck in.
Be it struggles with anxiety, depression, past trauma, relationship issues, limiting beliefs, attachment anxiety or attachment avoidance, low self esteem, vulnerability, family issues, identity development/ confusion, grief, difficult life transitions, coping with emotions, work life balance issues or professional burnout, take a leap on us to help you thrive.
Let us help you create a deeply fulfilling life and speak your truth.
How we help our clients create lasting change
Our Holistic Therapy Approach
At the core of our practice is a holistic approach, recognizing the importance of creating a non-judgemental, safe space for the whole person and the mind-body connection in healing and growth.
Our Integrative Holistic approach, combined with evidence-based therapy, helps clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships, hold space for all parts of themselves and helps strengthen their mind-body connection to overcome what’s holding them back.
Our therapists specialize in evidence-based treatments such as Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and integrate specialized approaches such as Trauma-informed Therapy, Somatic interventions, Attachment Informed Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Interventions (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Art Therapy, which are recommended by leading professionals in the field of Mental Health.
Each of our therapists is also specialist in their own niche from Anxiety & Work-life balance to Developmental Trauma to Perinatal Mental health to Interracial Couples issues. We have dedicated our careers to becoming experts in our respective areas of focus.
We offer Specialized Evidence-based Therapy
We create a safe, affirming space for all our clients
We love serving our diverse community in the DC Metropolitan area, Maryland &Virginia and love seeing our clients move past their struggles in purposeful, meaningful ways to create more fulfilling lives.
We proudly affirm and support the LGBTQIA2SP+ and BIPOC communities, as well as promote Body Positivity and Health At Every Size. Our therapists embrace gender affirming, culturally responsive therapy as fundamental to their therapeutic approach and create a safe space for clients to authentically show up as their whole selves, just as our therapists show up as their whole selves.
Our Holistic Therapy Services for Individuals & Couples - Find the right care for you
Holistic Individual Therapy
Heal, Grow & Overcome what’s holding you back
You deserve to thrive in the ways you have envisioned for yourself and discover a deeper sense of self-love and fulfillment in life. It can feel so hard to feel stuck in cycles of distress, despite trying really hard to work towards the change want to see in your life. Past traumas, relationships issues, anxiety, depression, difficult life transitions, grief, PTSD, and other mental health difficulties can all get in the way of your happiness, your life goals, your trust/love for yourself and your relationship fulfillment.
Our team of trauma-informed Holistic Therapists share a passion for helping our clients identify what’s holding them back and overcome the blocks in the way of their healing and growth. We offer evidence-based EMDR, Mindfulness based Holistic Psychotherapy, Holistic Trauma Therapy and Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, relationship distress, grief, self-esteem issues, professional burn out and difficult life transitions.
EMDR Trauma Therapy
Reclaim the life you want to live
Trauma can have a significant impact on our lives, influencing both our mental and physical well-being. It can make it hard to feel like ourselves and achieve what we want in life when our brain feels stuck on high alert. Seeking Therapy to work through past traumas can truly be life changing and can help you walk on the paths of life you choose to walk down, rather than the paths you feel stuck on because of your trauma, that where EMDR trauma therapy comes in! Backed by decades of rigorous research, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) is a specialized trauma therapy that helps clients overcome traumatic experiences that are at the core of their distress to create lasting change. EMDR has been used to successfully treat Millions of people over the past 40+ years.
Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling
Repair & Strengthen your bond with your partner
No one sets out to create a relationship where there is hurt, misunderstanding, lack of trust and difficulties in communication, but sometimes that’s where we find ourselves. Unspoken emotions, hurt, trust issues, infidelity, past traumas, tough life transitions, parenting struggles, conflicts in integrating cultural/value differences, and the impact of a mental health diagnosis can all take a toll on the relationship. And when that happens, its all about the repair! Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is the gold standard in repair! Our couples therapists help you repair, strengthen and recreate your connection with your partner through Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), incorporating Interracial Couples Therapy and Perinatal Couples Therapy as needed to help you rekindle the love, joy and fulfillment you deserve in your relationship.
Holistic Perinatal & Postpartum Therapy
Therapy For Individuals & Couples from Pre-Conception to Postpartum and beyond
Parenthood and planning to start a family can come with a wide range of emotions, from over the moon joy, excitement and fulfillment to baby blues, a sense of loss of self, anxiety about conception/ pregnancy/ birth, feelings of loss of control, fear of uncertainty, isolation, prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety and Perinatal grief. The mix of these emotions can be hard to navigate, especially when you’re facing uncertainty in fertility struggles or operating on little sleep and have unprecedented caregiving demands on your time/energy. It often also takes a toll on relationships. Partners may start to feel disconnected from each other and struggle to get on the same page. Most couples also struggle with intimacy issue in the postpartum period.
We offer Individual and Couples Therapy to help clients navigate all types of perinatal struggles, from Preconception issues to Fertility challenges, Conception/ Pregnancy related issues, Postpartum struggles, Perinatal grief/ loss and ongoing parenting challenges beyond the postpartum stage. Postpartum Therapy for parents at Sage & Fifth Therapy Place is especially focused on helping couples cope with all the ups and downs of their parenthood journey.
Featured Podcasts
Huma Sikandar Fatakia, LPC, Founder and CEO of Sage & Fifth Therapy Place PLLC in Washington, DC, features on This Miraculous Life Podcast to speak about the unique challenges interracial couples face, including societal and family pressures and how they can navigate these situations and have essential conversations about race to build a stronger, secure connection in their relationship/marriage, and how Interracial Couples Therapy can help.
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