Grief therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC

Drew Card is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Magnolia who works with teens, adults and older adults. His focus areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief and bipolar disorder, along with school issues, career questions and life transitions. He places trust, integrity and compassion at the heart of the therapy relationship and keeps a nonjudgmental, person-centered stance while helping clients find ways to move forward. He also uses rational emotive behavior therapy to help clients examine unhelpful beliefs, alongside CBT, mindfulness, narrative work and motivational interviewing. He sees clients in person in Magnolia and online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Laís Granemann is a licensed psychologist in Bethesda with 14 years in practice who works in English, Spanish and Portuguese. She provides individual and couples therapy for adults and neuropsychological testing for ADHD, autism, learning disabilities and mental health concerns in children, teens and adults. Many of her clients have moved for work, school or family and are adjusting to a new place or to cross-cultural relationships. She also supports people with cancer and their caregivers and treats blood and needle phobias. She trained and practiced in Brazil before earning her PhD in clinical psychology at Fordham University. Her approach is warm and collaborative. She offers a free 15-minute consultation and sessions in person and online.

Family Therapist, MS, LCMFT

Jennifer Fang Brehm is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in Silver Spring, Maryland, with 18 years in practice and licenses in Maryland and DC. She sees individuals, couples and families of all ages, from young children to older adults, and her specialty is couples work, including communication, conflict, intimacy, co-parenting, premarital preparation and separation or divorce. She also helps with grief, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD and family conflict. She views the therapy relationship as a judgment-free place to explore and heal emotional, interpersonal and spiritual concerns. Her methods are research-supported, mainly CBT, emotionally focused therapy and solution-focused therapy, with play therapy for children. She offers a free phone consultation and sessions in person and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW-C

Amy Gates is a licensed certified clinical social worker in Rockville, Maryland, with 26 years in practice. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed, anxious or depressed, and she helps people who feel stuck in difficult life transitions. A large part of her practice is couples and parenting work, often with parents raising a child with special needs, helping them develop coping strategies that ease worry. She also sees teens, older adults and families, with concerns including grief, self-esteem, OCD and the perinatal period. Her approach is supportive, practical and solution-focused, treating therapy as a way to make change rather than only gain insight, and she uses CBT, coaching and strength-based methods. Sessions are offered online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, MA, MS

Tamara Sharifov is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Washington, DC, with ten years in practice, also licensed in California. She works with adults, older adults and couples on trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, grief, life transitions and burnout. Her clients come from many cultures and backgrounds, including diplomats, humanitarian workers and human rights professionals, and her work is shaped by international affairs and a social justice perspective. She specializes in third-wave contextual behavioral therapy and uses experiential methods that engage emotion and the body, on the view that deep pain often needs to be felt and processed, not only understood. She sees clients in person in Washington and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW

Matt McQuilkin is a licensed clinical social worker in Washington, DC, practicing in the Barracks Row and Capitol Hill area, with six years in practice. He is also licensed in Maryland and Michigan. He works with adults on anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family concerns, questions of identity and sexuality, life transitions, and substance use or recovery, and he welcomes LGBTQ+ clients and men's issues. His approach is psychodynamic, relational and attachment-based, exploring how earlier experiences and relationships shape the present while moving at the client's own pace. He offers sessions in person in Washington, DC, and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

Samantha Levinson is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Bryn Mawr with 18 years in practice and licenses in Pennsylvania and Florida. She works with toddlers, children, teens, adults, older adults, couples and families facing behavioral and emotional challenges. Her main areas are anxiety, ADHD, depression and other mood disorders, OCD, autism and trauma, and she also helps with eating concerns, grief and relationships. Her background spans in-home therapy, outpatient care and group practice. She uses person-centered therapy, CBT, DBT and play therapy, along with an understanding of child development, and she is gender-affirming and experienced with LGBTQ+ clients. She offers phone coaching between sessions and sees clients in person in Bryn Mawr and online.

Associate Professional Counselor, LAPC, MA, RYT-200, EOL, Doula

Roni Evans is a licensed associate professional counselor in Doylestown with five years in practice, who is also a registered yoga teacher and an end-of-life doula. They work with preteens, teens, adults, older adults, families and groups on trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, life transitions, self-esteem, OCD, eating concerns and chronic illness, including death and end-of-life planning. Their approach is trauma-informed, nonjudgmental and transparent, built around each client's strengths rather than a rigid manual, and draws on DBT, Internal Family Systems, exposure and response prevention and humanistic methods. They affirm neurodivergent and LGBTQIA2S+ clients and offer help with self-critical inner voices. Sessions are available in person in Doylestown and by telehealth.

Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, AS

Shelley Snapp is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Doylestown with 11 years in practice and licenses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She works with teens and adults who people-please, over-function for others or hold themselves to impossible standards, and who feel anxious, burned out or unheard when they try to set boundaries. She also helps with trauma, grief, self-esteem, relationships, family conflict and LGBTQ+ concerns. Her style is direct yet compassionate, focused on new ways of communicating and setting limits with room for self-compassion. Her practice is trauma-informed, inclusive, gender-affirming and sex-positive, and she draws on attachment-based work, CBT, narrative therapy, family systems and Prolonged Exposure. Sessions are in person and online.