About Naomi
Naomi Durand-Kabasela is a Maryland-based clinician who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She has two decades of experience and works in a direct, respectful way. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit each person’s life and goals.
Naomi draws on a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. She uses client-centered work to listen and clarify what matters most. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior strategies add skills for managing strong emotions and building tolerance. Her sessions are conversational and collaborative. She aims to make complicated problems easier to understand.
That can include coping with depression, addiction concerns, trauma and grief, or relationship strain. She also supports people facing sleep trouble, parenting stress, career shifts, and long-term health challenges. Naomi’s medical degree (MD) and counseling credentials (LCPC, LPC) inform a broad perspective on emotional and behavioral concerns.
She adapts plans to each person’s strengths and circumstances and revises them as progress is made. People who meet with Naomi usually work on concrete goals. That might be reducing intense worry, changing patterns that fuel substance use, or improving communication in important relationships.
Sessions are paced to the person’s comfort and focus on skills that can be used between meetings. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and they are provided in English for people located in Maryland.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Naomi often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding goals, and shaping the sessions around what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems in place and teaches practical strategies to change them. Dialectical behavior therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and building better emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Naomi will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress occurs, making sure the work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy can make regular work easier to keep up. Video calls let people have a full face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules, while allowing therapists to use the same therapeutic tools across formats.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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