Therapy - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:43:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Therapy - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Feeling Burned Out? So Is Your Therapist. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/09/27/therapist-burnout-lessons-learned/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=therapist-burnout-lessons-learned Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:43:25 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1597850 Karen Osterle is a therapist who specializes in anxiety, anxious depression, and relationship issues. So for her, the pandemic has been like running one long Ironman Triathlon. Multiple times. Osterle, who owns her own practice in Dupont Circle, saw a spike in patient inquiries during Covid’s early months—the calls and emails were endless, she says, […]

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The World of Online Therapy Explained https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/07/26/therapy-mental-health-apps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=therapy-mental-health-apps Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:29:25 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1591159 Early in the pandemic, Yelena, a 33-year-old government contractor (who asked that her last name not be used) noticed that her anxiety had begun to go through the roof and she was isolating from others—signs that her chronic depression was flaring up. Yelena had left her Columbia Heights home at the start of the pandemic […]

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How This Therapist Runs a Black- and LGBTQ-Focused Counseling Group While Prioritizing Her Own Mental Health https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/07/15/how-this-therapist-runs-a-black-and-lgbtq-focused-counseling-group-while-prioritizing-her-own-mental-health/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-this-therapist-runs-a-black-and-lgbtq-focused-counseling-group-while-prioritizing-her-own-mental-health Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:00:19 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1539223 Dr. LaNail Plummer is the CEO of Onyx Therapy Group, which specializes in providing mental health services to the Black and LGBTQ communities. The 40-year-old lives in Bowie with her wife and two children, and is also an Army veteran and Howard graduate. While Plummer has worked in mental health counseling for several years, Onyx […]

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Here Are Some Mental Health Support Groups, Workshops, and Resources You Can Access Virtually https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/04/22/here-are-some-mental-health-support-groups-workshops-and-resources-you-can-access-virtually/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=here-are-some-mental-health-support-groups-workshops-and-resources-you-can-access-virtually Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:44:04 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1087735 If you’re looking for mental health support during the pandemic, it can be a bit tricky. Maybe your provider is overloaded with online appointment requests and you can’t book an appointment, or maybe a visit is outside of your current budget. Or maybe you’re a first-time patient who’s reluctant to schedule an appointment with a […]

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I Loved My New Baby, but My Mind Was Doing Something Scary https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/01/31/loved-my-new-baby-but-my-mind-was-doing-something-scary-catastrophizing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=loved-my-new-baby-but-my-mind-was-doing-something-scary-catastrophizing Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:00:54 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=999645 It all started with a head of cauliflower. Well, two—one pristine, one in the early stages of decay. It had gray spots and yellowed leaves and I swear I saw something fuzzy on it. “How did you not notice this was rotten?!” I screamed at my husband. “Oh, it is? I didn’t see,” he replied. […]

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DC Types Have Been Flocking to Shrinks Ever Since Trump Won. And a Lot of the Therapists Are Miserable. https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/07/14/dc-types-flocking-shrinks-trump-therapists-miserable/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-types-flocking-shrinks-trump-therapists-miserable Sun, 14 Jul 2019 22:00:10 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=765225 One afternoon last fall, Gail Guttman, a therapist who works in Northwest DC and Montgomery County, was teaching a workshop on couples and sex therapy that took a highly unusual turn. During a break, her students—all licensed therapists themselves, in the class to hone their skills—went into the hallway and checked their phones for the […]

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A Lot of People in DC Are Googling “Therapist Near Me” https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/11/11/dc-searches-therapist-near-me-google-peaking-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-searches-therapist-near-me-google-peaking-election Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:40:30 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=207947 More people have been searching Google for mental health counselors since election season began. DC is one of the top regions contributing to the trend, though it’s behind Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. District searches got particularly spiky as Election Day approached. Featured photo by Flickr user Dan DeLuca.

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“What Happens If I See You at The Store?” And 6 Other “Weird” Questions for a Therapist, Answered by a Pro https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/04/11/questions-for-therapist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-for-therapist Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:00:39 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=189535 No question is supposed to be off-limits in a therapist’s office—and yet, sometimes you’re sitting on that leather lounger, worrying that maybe you’ve cried too much in recent sessions or stressing that twice-a-week appointments mean there is something really, really wrong with you. And you just can’t make yourself ask your therapist about it. But psychiatrists, psychologists, and other […]

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