Holding space for the holistic healing journey within and in relationships to help you curate the life you deserve.
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.
We are on a mission to break the stereotypical box that society tries to put therapy and mental health counseling in, limiting it to mere talk therapy and uncovering insights. We think that approach only takes you so far! Working with us is not just Talk Therapy, we integrate EMDR, Mindfulness based holistic interventions, Somatic interventions, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Informed Therapy, and Art Therapy. It’s all of it, depending on what will help you the most! Because why shouldn’t it be? You deserve specialized therapy!
Each of our therapists is a specialist in their own niche. We are a group of life-long learners and anything less than specialized therapy to help our clients doesn’t sit well with us so we have dedicated our careers to becoming experts in our respective areas of focus.
At the core of our practice is a holistic approach, recognizing the importance of the mind-body connection in healing and recognizing that our resilience is as unique as our journey in life. We empower our clients to understand and strengthen their mind-body connection to inspire healing, growth and the ability to speak their truth.
Be it anxiety, past traumas, depression, relationship distress, difficult life transitions, racial trauma, fear of uncertainty, professional burn out, pregnancy/ postpartum issues, or fertility struggles, we are committed to helping our clients overcome the distressing cycles they feel stuck in.
Our Holistic Therapeutic Approach
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.
We love serving our diverse community
Our Holistic Therapy Services for Individuals & Couples
Holistic Individual Psychotherapy
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. We understand that 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. It may even lead to feeling disconnected from yourself and others.
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 EMDR, Mindfulness based Holistic Psychotherapy and Holistic Trauma Therapy.
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 & 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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