Relationships therapists

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Christina Hidalgo is a licensed clinical social worker in Friendswood with five years in practice, working with adults, older adults, couples and groups. A bilingual, first-generation Latina sex therapist, she focuses on sexual health, including desire, identity, consent, sexual pain, shame and dysfunction, and welcomes LGBTQIA+, kink and consensually non-monogamous clients. She also works with trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and the perinatal period. Her approach includes somatic work to help release trauma held in the body, along with EMDR, emotionally focused, attachment-based and feminist therapy. She works with clients online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, CEDS

Avanti Bande is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Houston and a certified eating disorder specialist who works with adults. She helps clients navigating the pressures of adulthood, including life transitions, complicated relationships, self-doubt, anxiety and depression, and she has a particular focus on eating disorders. She also works with family conflict and racial identity, and offers LGBTQ+ affirming care. In a safe, nonjudgmental space, she meets clients where they are and helps them build practical tools, drawing on ACT, CBT, DBT, compassion-focused therapy and motivational interviewing within a culturally sensitive framework. She works with clients online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Kelly Adams is a licensed clinical social worker in Richmond who focuses on children and teens. She helps young people affected by recent changes, stress or past trauma, and by anxiety, low mood, anger or low self-esteem, and she also works with ADHD, OCD, grief, family concerns and LGBTQ+ issues. She partners closely with parents, holding regular parent sessions alongside the child's therapy, and tailors evidence-based methods to each child to build self-understanding and resilience. Her approaches include EMDR, exposure and response prevention, CBT, DBT, Internal Family Systems and attachment-based work. She offers a free consultation and sees children, teens, adults and families in person in Richmond and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC

Kellee Landry is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Houston who practices with PNL Counseling. She works with children, preteens, teens, adults, older adults, couples and families, and focuses on trauma, anxiety, depression, communication problems and the everyday difficulties that build up when emotions are held in. She also helps with grief, self-esteem, stress, substance use and bipolar disorder. She encourages clients not to push through alone, and brings an open mind and a teacher's outlook to her sessions, helping people build the tools and skills to reach their potential and support their loved ones. She sees clients in person in Houston and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, BSP, EMDR, PPNE

Sheryl Boyle is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor based in Spring who works with adults and older adults. She helps clients with trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and chronic pain, along with addiction, codependency, dissociation and the effects of long-term stress on health, work and relationships. She also supports clients in the perinatal period and offers LGBTQ+ affirming care. Her work centers on integrative, non-medication interventions and building new coping skills, using EMDR, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, hypnotherapy, energy psychology and Jungian ideas. She currently sees clients online.

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, NCC

Yousef Essex is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor listed in Bethesda who serves clients across Maryland and Washington, DC. His specialties are trauma, ADHD and the mental health of men, and he also helps with anxiety, depression, burnout and relationship difficulties. Before becoming a therapist he worked for over a decade in international education and as a federal Foreign Affairs Officer, living and working in places such as Cairo, Beirut and Damascus; his own burnout led him here. He combines Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing and CBT, and uses Gottman and emotionally focused methods with couples. He also offers psychedelic harm reduction and integration support, plus a free 20-minute consultation. Sessions are in person 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.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

Amy Taddeo Jimenez is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Arlington, Virginia, with nine years in practice and licenses in Virginia, DC and West Virginia. She has built her career around eating disorders, which often go unnoticed or misunderstood, and has worked across outpatient, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs. She works with teens, adults and families of any gender, whether they are new to treatment or long into recovery and want extra support. She also helps with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma and body image. She is trained in CBT for eating disorders and ARFID and in Family Based Treatment, and she treats clients as the experts on their own lives. Sessions are offered online.