About Tzipora
Tzipora Frager is a Maryland-based clinician who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with addiction. She also supports people who are struggling with relationship and family conflicts. She presents a calm, direct style and encourages small, doable steps to reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
She creates an open space where clients can say what they are feeling without judgment. Sessions focus on practical coping skills, clearer communication, and building routines that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
The tone is straightforward and solutions-oriented, with room to process difficult emotions. With 24 years of professional experience, she draws on a broad range of work with common concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, and codependency. She has also addressed challenges related to chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the stresses of aging and serious medical conditions.
Treatments often include planning concrete behavior changes, practicing new ways to talk with others, and learning steps to reduce addictive patterns. She tailors the approach to each person's needs and pace, helping clients try what feels doable first. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to people located in Maryland.
Therapy is available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, with scheduling arranged after a short matching questionnaire and sign-up process.
Practical approaches and online care
Evidence-based techniques focus on skills people can use right away. One common approach is skills training that teaches breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These tools help when worry or overwhelm makes daily tasks hard. Another approach emphasizes communication and relationship work, with clear steps for setting boundaries, improving conversations, and handling conflict more calmly. That kind of work is useful for relationship strain and family tensions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they try methods and adjust them based on how well they fit the person’s needs and life circumstances.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible options. Video is helpful when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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