Therapy for lgbtq silver spring

I’m a therapist who understands what it’s like to think your way through everything—and still feel emotionally lost. If you’ve always relied on intellect to survive but are now seeking something deeper, you’re in the right place.

With a background in the sciences and experience supporting LGBTQIA+ and poly clients, creatives, and government professionals, I serve clients bridge the gap between high-level thinking and meaningful emotional healing.

If you’re navigating burnout, identity trauma, chronic illness, or ADHD—your logical mind can only take you so far. I help you travel from head to heart, without losing the strengths that make you exceptional.

💡 Why This Work Matters

You’re not emotionally deficient—you’re over-adapted. And those adaptations helped you succeed. But now, they may be holding you back from fully living.

Many of my clients experience thoughts like:

“I know how to solve problems—but I don’t grasp how to sit with emotions.”

“My job requires me to suppress everything. I’ve forgotten how to feel.”

“People think I have it together, but I feel like I’m unraveling behind the scenes.”

“I feel alone. No one seems to understands the st

Imagine a space where your needs are heard - and truly understood.

Finding the right therapist and therapy that actually works can sense impossible!

What if you could experience a profound shift backed by scientifically proven methods provided by expert therapists - where thousands of others have already found healing?

YOU HAVE FOUND THE RIGHT PLACE. Perceive the difference from the moment you call– it’s why our clients AND our colleagues consistently rate us 5 stars on Google.

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Affiliated Therapist:

For the last ten years, Emily Rizzo has worked with teenagers, adults, and families as a counselor/therapist. Emily is emotional about providing LGBT counseling, working with the LGBTQ population along with queer, non-binary, & genderfluid people, interracial relationships, and individuals in non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. During her career, Emily has worked with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, people of hue, and helped clients with depression, anxiety, self-motivation, trauma, self-harm, grief, familial relations, gender identity, sexual persona, sexual/relationship needs, communication in relationships, understanding their individuality, and self-integration.

Along with individual therapy, Emily provides couples and family therapy and has experience working with families who have been through the foster look after system, adoption, and with parents of teens in a wilderness/partial hospitalization/intensive out-patient program. Emily’s experience with counseling people who hold trauma lead her to an Advanced Trauma Certification through the Lisa Ferentz Institute in 2017. In 2015, Emily began her journey in extensively le

LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapists in Silver Spring, MD

From experience with trauma, self-injury, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, chronic health, sex therapy, couples and larger family systems, PDA and the LGBTQIA umbrella to professional work in issue focused non-profits/campaigns (and even performing), Rachael is deeply in tune with the political and social ecosystems that our intersectional identities transverse on a moment to moment basis.

Rachael has spent her career both in and out of the therapy room working to dismantle systems of oppression and crafting structures that deal with people better - including ourselves. Rachael is a strong partner in convert. She enjoys the work alongside her clients in (re)claiming their space in the world both physically and metaphorically.

From experience with trauma, self-injury, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, chronic health, sex therapy, couples and larger family systems, PDA and the LGBTQIA umbrella to professional work in issue focused non-profits/campaigns (and even performing), Rachael is deeply in tune with the political and social ecosystems that our intersectional identities transverse on a moment to mome