About Callas
Callas Vaughan-Dixon is a licensed counselor in Maryland with an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. She brings 11 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma-related concerns. She aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and supported.
She focuses on practical, everyday problems like trouble concentrating, memory concerns, panic attacks, and mood shifts. She also helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, communication problems, divorce or separation, and feelings of isolation or loneliness.
Background and approach
Veterans and people with traumatic brain injury are among the additional areas she has experience with. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Conversations are straightforward and rooted in real-life goals.
People can expect clear talk about coping strategies and ways to manage symptoms between sessions. Her approach is collaborative. She works with each person to identify small, manageable steps toward change.
That might include short-term techniques for anxiety and practical planning for daily routines and concentration. Callas supports people who want to feel more in control of their mood, reduce panic or social anxiety, or rebuild after difficult experiences. She works with each person at their pace and helps set realistic goals to measure progress.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Callas uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom relief. One common approach she uses teaches people simple breathing and grounding strategies to reduce panic and intense anxiety. These techniques help lower immediate symptoms and are useful during a panic attack or high-stress moment.Another approach centers on behavioral and problem-solving strategies to lift mood and improve daily functioning. That work focuses on small routine changes, activity scheduling, and ways to improve concentration and memory so day-to-day tasks feel more manageable.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will work collaboratively to identify what methods fit a person's goals and comfort level. Together they review what helps, adjust strategies over time, and set clear, achievable goals so progress is easier to track.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is helpful when visual connection matters, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and flexible communication between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, a packed schedule, or a time when a quick update feels most useful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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