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Erika Arnold-McEwan, LICSW
Holistic EMDR Trauma Therapist & Attachment-informed Psychotherapist
Accepting clients in DC only
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Erika specializes in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), which have demonstrated effectiveness in overcoming ongoing trauma reactions as well as creating more helpful beliefs about one’s self and others. She maintains a clinical foundation of somatic processing, attachment-informed, client-centered, and Polyvagal theories to guide her therapeutic approaches.
Erika consistently strives to create a safe, unconditionally supportive therapeutic space, where clients can calm their nervous systems. She helps clients impacted by traumatic events who are struggling with difficulty focusing, negative beliefs about self and others, difficulty feeling positive emotions, anger outbursts, flashbacks, feeling tense, on edge, or easily startled, physical pain, significant self-blame and shame, avoidance of traumatic memories, thoughts, feelings, and situations, nightmares and difficulty falling and staying asleep.
Languages: English
Accepting clients in DC only
John Hardenbergh, LICSW
Holistic EMDR Trauma Therapist & Attachment-informed Psychotherapist
Accepting clients in DC only
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John specializes in EMDR trauma therapy and is a psychodynamically informed psychotherapist. He specializes in helping clients overcome traumatic experiences to create impactful change in their lives. Healing from trauma can be hard work, but John is with his clients every step of the way. He also incorporates mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (mbCBT) and attachment-informed mentalization-based treatment (MBT) in his work to help clients overcome anxiety, depression, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder. He has experience working with a highly diverse client base and strongly believes in bringing an intersectional lens into the therapy room to create a safe space to explore how client’s overlapping identities and oppressions shape their internal experiences.
Languages: English
Accepting clients in DC only
Olesya Van Dijck, LPC, ATR-P
EFT Couples Counselor, Trauma-informed Holistic Psychotherapist & Art Therapist
Accepting clients in DC only
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Olesya helps clients explore suppressed emotions and reconnect with their authentic self through creative and embodied practices that reach beyond words. She uses an integrative therapeutic approach in helping clients deal with difficult life transitions, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, addiction and eating disorders. She specializes in trauma, PTSD, domestic violence, sexual or emotional abuse, attachment issues, grief and loss. Olesya also uses Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy to help couples strengthen/ repair their bond by working through communication/ trust issues, past traumas, life transitions, conflicts in integrating cultural/value differences.
Languages: English, Russian
Accepting clients in DC only
Shamella Joy, LGSW
Holistic Trauma-informed Therapist & Perinatal/Postpartum Therapist
Accepting clients in DC only
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Shamella has a passion for helping clients experience a less daunting and more rewarding path through parenthood. She specializes in helping new parents struggling with the challenges of postpartum life and clients struggling with the uncertainties of fertility and perinatal loss. As a trauma-informed therapist with experience in working with veterans, Shamella also has experience supporting clients through processing and healing from past traumas and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). She also incorporates Mindfulness, Holistic Psychotherapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) in her work with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, identity/ self-esteem issues, ADD/ADHD and childhood trauma.
Languages: English
Accepting clients in DC only
Jane Townsend, LICSW
Holistic Psychotherapist, Perinatal/ Postpartum Therapist & Couples Counselor
Accepting clients in DC, Maryland & Virginia
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Jane utilizes a trauma informed holistic and person-centered approach to empower clients to achieve their goals and overcome the challenges they are facing. She also incorporates mindfulness, attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, DBT and CBT interventions in her work with clients. Jane specializes in Perinatal/ Postpartum therapy and Couples Therapy and also has experience working with clients with anxiety, family conflict, depression, life transitions, relational distress, and self-esteem issues. With her couples, she utilizes the proven interventions of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy to help couples build/ repair their connection and overcome communications issues, trust issues, life transitions issues, grief, trauma and mental health concerns.
Languages: English
Accepting clients in DC, Maryland & Virginia
Veronica Thornton, LGPC
EMDR Trauma Therapist &
Holistic Mental Health Counselor
Currently full, join waitlist for DC clients here
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Veronica specializes in EMDR trauma therapy and Holistic Psychotherapy, incorporating mindfulness, somatic interventions, Psychodynamic Therapy and CBT interventions. She works with clients who need support with complex grief, divorce, disruptive family relationships/attachments, high stress due to life transitions, depression, anxiety, sexual trauma, childhood abuse, and other past experiences of trauma.
With EMDR therapy, Veronica has been able to help her clients process big emotions and traumatic events that felt stuck for them for a long time and has helped them learn new ways of being to attain the life they desire.
Languages: English
Accepting clients in DC only
Elise Brau, LPC
Holistic EMDR Trauma Therapist & Perinatal/Postpartum Therapist
Currently full, not accepting new clients
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Elise uses an integrative holistic approach, incorporating evidence-based mindfulness, somatic body interventions, DBT interventions, trauma informed therapy and attachment based psychodynamic therapy to help clients better understand themselves and their relationships, in therapy and outside of sessions. Elise specializes in working with clients struggling with anxiety, trauma and perinatal issues (related to pregnancy, postpartum, infertility & perinatal loss). She also has experience working with clients dealing with depression, relational distress, attachment issues, family conflict, identity exploration, life transitions, self-doubt, meaninglessness, and grief.Languages: English, Spanish / Accepting clients in DC only
Huma Sikandar Fatakia, LPC
Holistic EMDR Trauma Therapist &
EFT Couples Counselor
Currently full, not accepting new clients
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Huma works with clients to help them overcome distressing cycles and empowers them to find stability, create healthier relationships and live an enriched life. Together we explore underlying emotions and find new ways of coping with past traumas, difficult life transitions, loss, relational distress and other mental health issues. While cultural sensitivity and mindfulness are at the core of her practice, Huma also specializes in EMDR, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Interracial Couples Therapy, Perinatal Mental Health and Attachment based Psychodynamic Therapy. She is currently only accepting new clients for EMDR Therapy and Perinatal/Postpartum Couples Therapy.
Languages: English, Urdu, Hindi
Works with clients in DC & Virginia
