Neuroaffirming Therapy for Adults in Maryland

Zen Psychological Center provides specialized, Neuroaffirming therapy for adults throughout Maryland via telehealth. Our clinicians work with OCD, ADHD, Autism, anxiety, trauma, body-focused repetitive behaviors, eating concerns, and other experiences that can affect daily life, relationships, and well-being.

We recognize that effective therapy is not one-size-fits-all. Our clinicians draw from evidence-based and individualized approaches based on each person’s concerns, experiences, strengths, needs, and goals. For clients with overlapping neurodivergent experiences, treatment can also account for differences in sensory processing, executive functioning, communication, interoception, and emotional regulation.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Obsessive Compulsive “Personality Disorder” (OCPD)

Autism

Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)

Anxiety

Interoceptive Body Awareness

Eating Disorders

Body Focused Repetitive Disorders (BRFBs)

Trauma & Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Treatments

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a distinguished psychotherapy technique designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.

Brainspotting

Brain spotting therapy is an innovative and advanced brain-body treatment method focused on addressing trauma, mental health imbalances, and residual emotional issues. It operates on the principle that the position of the eyes can connect to and help access unprocessed trauma stored in the brain.

Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB)/ Habit Reversal Training

The Comprehensive Behavioral Model (ComB), an evidence-based therapy strategy, was created to assist patients with repetitive behaviors that are body-focused, like persistent hair pulling and skin picking.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we are doing, and not unduly reactive or overwhelmed by what is happening around us

Interoception Body Awareness

Interoception is the ability to recognize body sensations and connect them to emotions

The Unified Treatment

This treatment program is designed to address any type of eating disorder along with the other emotional problems that people with eating disorders also commonly experience.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

You will learn to recognize that your deeper emotions are normal reactions to certain circumstances and shouldn’t stand in the way of you moving on in life rather than ignoring, denying, and struggling with them.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy is a progressive and evidence-based approach to psychotherapy that explores the multifaceted aspects of an individual’s psyche. IFS posits that the mind is made up of multiple sub-personalities, or “parts,” each with its distinct viewpoints, emotions, and memories.

Polyvagal Theory

Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen W. Porges, offers a groundbreaking perspective on the autonomic nervous system’s role in regulating our emotional and physiological states. It distinguishes between two branches of the vagus nerve within the parasympathetic nervous system, proposing a hierarchical organization of our biological responses to stress and social interaction.