We offer psychotherapy for individual adults, as well as for couples.  For individuals the therapy we provide is less structured, more collaborative in nature, and is tailored to meet your goals.  Approaches for individual therapy vary based on your treatment goals.  They range from weekly sessions for a few weeks or months to address a focused problem in your life, to psychoanalysis, which is a more intensive treatment to address pervasive unhappiness, chronic emotional pain, or a sense of unfullfillment in your life.

Couples therapy is focused on teaching couples how to make their relationships more loving by increasing their marital friendship and emotional intimacy.  This is done by first understanding what behaviors and communication habits are putting the greatest strain on the relationship.   Goals are set together based on empirically grounded strategies developed by John Gottman (Sound Marital House), Sue Johnson (Emotion Focused Therapy), and Dan Wile (Collaborative Couple Therapy).  Effective marital therapy, also known as couples counseling or marriage counseling, can be a great way to rapidly increase your quality of life.  If this is something you're considering, I encourage you to read more.

Our office is in the heart of the Kentlands, in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  Centrally located for people from suburban Maryland, including the areas of Gaithersburg, Germantown, Montgomery Village, Rockville, Potomac, and North Potomac.

I invite you to explore these pages further for more information about what psychotherapy and/or psychoanalysis can offer you. 

In the meantime . . .

I wish you the very best,

Elizabeth Carr