On the care we offer

Individual psychotherapy at Rock Creek Clinical is practice-based, which means your therapist draws on modalities with a meaningful evidence base, among them cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic approaches, and acceptance-based frameworks, selecting and combining them in response to what a particular person needs at a particular moment in treatment. Sessions are structured around genuine clinical engagement rather than manualized routine, and the therapeutic relationship itself is understood as part of the mechanism of change.

Our therapists are independently licensed (LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC, PsyD, or PhD) and matched to your care based on your goals and the modalities best suited to them. Sessions are typically scheduled weekly or biweekly to start.

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills
• Psychodynamic and supportive psychotherapy
• Trauma-focused care
• Perinatal and postpartum-specific therapy

Psychiatric care at Rock Creek Clinical begins with a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation that treats the initial appointment as a beginning of understanding, not a hurdle before prescribing. Board-certified psychiatrists conduct medication management within an ongoing clinical relationship, revisiting the diagnostic picture as treatment unfolds and remaining attentive to the ways that medications interact with the texture of a person's daily life. The goal is a psychiatric formulation that is accurate and that a patient can recognize as their own.

Our psychiatric care is delivered by physicians who completed an MD or DO, a four-year residency in psychiatry, and who hold board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Visits are scheduled at the frequency your care requires.

• Diagnostic psychiatric evaluation
• Ongoing psychiatric medication management
• Coordination with primary care & specialty providers
• Care for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma, perinatal mental health, and major life transitions
• Telehealth or in-person at your preference

Secure video appointments allow Rock Creek Clinical to extend its model of careful, unhurried care to patients throughout Washington, D.C. who cannot easily travel to an in-office visit, whether because of schedule, health, or the practical realities of the city. The clinical standard is identical to in-person care; telehealth is offered not as a diminished alternative but as a genuinely flexible means of maintaining the continuity that makes long-term treatment effective.

Where clinically appropriate, both psychiatric care and psychotherapy are available through HIPAA-compliant telehealth. The same clinicians, the same care — delivered to wherever you can find a quiet, private space within your state of residence.

• Telepsychiatry medication management
• Teletherapy for psychotherapy and couples care
• Secure, HIPAA-compliant platform
• Equal-fee, in-network billing where your plan permits

Relational work at this practice is available to adult couples and family systems navigating conflict, loss, major life transitions, or the accumulated weight of patterns that have become difficult to shift without outside perspective. The clinician's role in couples and family care here is not to adjudicate disputes but to create the conditions under which the people in the room can think more clearly about what they actually want from their relationships and from each other.

Relationships are part of behavioral health. Our couples and family clinicians are trained in evidence-based systemic and relational modalities, and care is delivered with the same evidence base as our individual treatment.

• Couples therapy (Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method-informed)
• Family therapy for adults and adult-child family units
• Parent guidance for adults navigating parenting under stress

Beyond general psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care, Rock Creek Clinical maintains focused clinical attention on several areas where adults in high-demand professional and civic environments frequently encounter difficulty: anxiety and stress-related conditions, mood disorders with complex presentations, trauma, and the particular pressures that accompany major life and career transitions. These specialty programs are not separate tracks but areas where the practice's clinicians have cultivated depth of experience and are prepared to work at a correspondingly higher level of complexity.

Some conditions benefit from a clinician with focused training. Our specialty programs are organized around the diagnostic categories that present most often in adult outpatient behavioral health, staffed by clinicians with additional training in each area.

• Anxiety disorders
• Mood disorders
• Trauma and PTSD
• Workplace burnout and occupational stress
• Life transitions
• OCD
• Grief and loss