Therapy Services
What issues can be addressed in therapy?
Depression
Depression does not always look like crying or being unable to get out of bed. You may feel numb, discouraged, disconnected, easily irritated, unmotivated, or exhausted from carrying responsibilities that other people do not see.
Therapy provides space to explore what is contributing to these feelings, reconnect with what matters to you, strengthen coping skills, and begin taking manageable steps forward.
Anxiety
Being capable does not make you immune to becoming overwhelmed.
Anxiety can appear as racing thoughts, irritability, overthinking, physical tension, difficulty sleeping, panic, avoidance, or the feeling that you can never fully relax. You may be managing work, family, caregiving, relationships, and other responsibilities while quietly feeling as though you are reaching your limit.
Therapy can help you understand what is driving the anxiety, recognize patterns, develop healthier responses, and feel more grounded in everyday life.
Trauma
Painful experiences can continue affecting your emotions, body, relationships, and sense of safety long after the experience has ended.
You may be dealing with intrusive memories, distrust, shame, anger, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, or survival patterns that are no longer helping you. Trauma-informed therapy can help you understand these responses, strengthen emotional-regulation skills, and process what happened at a pace that feels manageable.
Select ATNC clinicians offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly known as EMDR. EMDR is a structured, trauma-focused therapy used to help people process distressing memories and reduce trauma-related symptoms.
EMDR is not appropriate for every client or every concern. Your clinician will assess your needs, explain your options, and help determine whether EMDR is clinically appropriate for you.
Grief
Grief, Loss, and Life Transitions
Grief can follow the death of someone you love, but it can also accompany a breakup, divorce, health change, career transition, relocation, caregiving role, retirement, military transition, or the loss of a future you expected to have.
Therapy gives you room to process what changed, honor what mattered, and find a way forward without pretending the loss did not affect you.
Relationship
Therapy
Relationship Therapy for Adults
You can talk about your relationships in individual therapy—even though ATNC does not provide couples therapy.
Individual relationship therapy can help you explore communication, conflict, boundaries, trust, betrayal, dating, marriage, separation, divorce, family dynamics, and difficult decisions about what you want next.
The focus remains on your experiences, healing, choices, and goals. If you and your partner want to attend therapy together, we can refer you to a trusted couples-therapy colleague when possible.
Emotional Abuse
Emotional and Relational Abuse Recovery
Manipulation, gaslighting, coercive control, betrayal, intimidation, and repeated emotional harm can leave you questioning yourself and struggling to trust your own judgment.
Therapy can provide a private, nonjudgmental place to name what happened, understand how it affected you, rebuild confidence in your perceptions, strengthen boundaries, and decide what healing and safety mean for you.
Veterans
Veterans, Service Members, and Military Spouses
ATNC provides individual therapy for adult veterans, service members, and military spouses.
Therapy may address trauma, grief, military-to-civilian transition, reintegration, caregiving, identity, moral injury, anxiety, depression, anger, or relationship strain. We also recognize that race, gender, family roles, and military culture can intersect in ways that deserve thoughtful attention.
Our clinical team includes a U.S. Navy veteran with a special commitment to serving veterans and military-connected adults.
Faith-Sensitive Care Is Available
If faith or spirituality is important to you, it can be included in therapy.
You may want to explore how your beliefs connect with healing, forgiveness, grief, identity, relationships, decision-making, or hope. Faith integration is always guided by your preferences and is never required.
Treatment Designed Around You
Therapy at ATNC is collaborative and individualized. Your first appointment gives you and your therapist an opportunity to discuss your concerns, history, strengths, goals, and what you want to be different.
Depending on your needs and your clinician’s training, treatment may include cognitive and behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed approaches, EMDR, mindfulness, psychoeducation, practical skill-building, or optional faith integration.
Not every clinician provides every treatment approach or specialty. We will consider your needs, therapist preference, availability, location, and payment options when reviewing your appointment request.
Before You Schedule
ATNC provides individual telehealth therapy for adults age 18 and older.
We do not provide therapy for children or adolescents, couples therapy, marriage counseling, or family therapy. Adults may discuss parenting, marriage, family dynamics, and other relationship concerns during their own individual therapy.
Most ATNC clinicians may see clients who are physically located in Maryland. Dr. Demarest Crawl is licensed in Maryland and Washington, DC and may see clients physically located in either jurisdiction.
Find the Right Support
Review our therapist profiles to learn about each clinician’s experience and areas of focus. When you are ready, use our secure online system to view current availability and request an appointment.