Individual Psychotherapy
This provides one-on-one focus for the problems bringing someone to therapy. After the initial assessment, individual sessions provide someone a place to discuss their concerns, identify goals, and learn new skills. Length of sessions include 30, 45, and 55 minutes.
DBT Group Therapy
Join our Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills group in Maryland and Delaware, designed to provide depression help, panic attack treatment, and support for therapy trust issues. Learn core DBT skills—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and strengthen relationships. Each session blends DBT therapy skill-building with supportive group discussion in a safe, understanding environment. Whether you’re coping with trauma, relationship struggles, or overwhelming emotions, DBT therapy offers practical tools for lasting change and greater balance in daily life.
about the Specific therapies offered by Alec peer, LCSw-c
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, better known as EMDR, is one of the leading therapies for treating PTSD, Complex Trauma, or any other upsetting life experience that continues to impact someone in the present. Traumatic experiences get stored differently in the memory. They are often locked into place with the same feelings, images, sounds, and body sensations as when the experience first took place. It can be incredibly difficult for a person to continually reexperience the same emotions as when the trauma took place. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (eye movements, alternating audio tones, or alternating tactile stimulation, such as vibrating paddles or tapping) to make it easier to discuss the traumatic experience. This bilateral stimulation (BLS) also activates both hemispheres of the brain which gives the person access to new information and insights that help alleviate the frequently self-deprecating beliefs that follow a traumatic experience.
EMDR is one of the most researched therapies that exists. It is endorsed by the Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMSHA), and the World Health Organization.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, also known as DBT, was originally developed for people with Borderline Personality Disorder as a way to help prevent a person with overwhelming emotions from harming themselves. Because overwhelming emotions, like depression, anxiety, panic, rage, etc., are experienced by many with various mental health challenges, it was found to be effective with many others as well.
DBT has four main components of the therapy: Core Mindfulness Skills, Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills, Emotion Regulation Skills, and Distress Tolerance Skills. Each of these module accompany specific practices that are developed inside and outside of sessions to help overcome, and ultimately, reduce overwhelming emotions.
Mindfulness Skills focus one developing a greater awareness and insight of one’s self, one’s environment, and one’s relationship with others. This is accomplished through psychoeducation and developing some basic mindfulness practices in daily life. Interpersonal Effective Skills are aimed at developing more effective relationship patterns through boundary setting, assertiveness, and relationship building skills. Emotion Regulation Skills help to challenge belief systems that lead to frequent negative emotions. Distress Tolerance Skills help a person develop the ability to reduce very intense, overwhelming emotions that often lead to self-destructive behavior.