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Lisa Lavitt, LCSW-C

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Lisa Lavitt, LCSW-C


Office Location & Number:

Frederick, MD         (240) 608-6444


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Lisa Lavitt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15+ years of experience serving couples and families. She utilizes a variety of clinical approaches and offers a strengths-based, evidence-backed framework for relationship counseling. Lisa works with all couples and relationships including couples who have experienced an affair, couples who are “fighting all the time”, and couples who have lost that “spark” for each other.


Meet Lisa Lavitt:

“Clients tell me I’m down to earth, open, and approachable as a therapist. My couples joke my office is their “Switzerland” and that I work hard to help them bring their honest experiences to the table for each other. As a couples specialist, my job is to help each of you find your voice, identify your needs, and help you safely lean into one another. Committed relationships are hard and are going to hurt at times. Relationship counseling is here to help you through those rough patches. My greatest hope for you is that you are able to reclaim your passion, love, and belief in one another. It’s an honor to be part of that journey with you.”

Alex Honigman, LCSW

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Alex Honigman, LCSW


Office Locations & Numbers:

Alexandria, VA      (571) 378-6900
Fairfax, VA             (571) 495-1731
Washington, DC    (202) 792-6294
California Offices  (323) 484-1037


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Alex Honigman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15+ years of experience serving couples and families. Alex has significant knowledge and practice working with couples in all stages of life, development, and areas of difficulty (intimacy, infidelity, communication). He utilizes a tailored, client focused approach to produce lasting results.


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Ellen Singer, LCSW-C

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Ellen Singer, LCSW-C


Office Locations & Numbers:

Gaithersburg, MD (240) 252-7888
Columbia, MD       (443) 583-5957
Bethesda, MD        (301) 364-4312


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Ellen Singer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has specialized in helping couples and families for 35+ years. She was able to personally train with Dr. Richard Schwartz in the evidence-based Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapeutic model. She’s also studied and incorporates tools from highly reputable Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Therapy, and Imago Therapy. She sees all couples and specializes in high conflict, infidelity/affairs, intimacy/sexual relationships, ADHD impact, and coping with parent-related concerns. She also specializes in working with couples experiencing infertility, adult adoptees, adoptive parents, expectant/birth parents and blended-families. Ellen welcomes all LGTBQ relationships.


Meet Ellen Singer:


Education

  • M.S.W., Clinical concentration, University of Illinois

Trainings, Certifications, and Continuing Education

  • The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Differentiation, Attachment, and Brain Science (Year Long Intensive, Couples Institute), 2020
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intimacy from the Inside Out (online course), Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. and Toni Herbine-Blank
  • Infidelity and Affairs: Helping Couples Heal their Broken Hearts
  • The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy
  • Couples Therapy for Treating Trauma: The Gottman Method Approach
  • Recovering from an Affair: A Gottman Research Based Treatment for Infidelity, Scott Wolfe, Ph.D.
  • Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Kathryn Rheem
  • Sex Therapy for the General Therapist – Marianne Brandon, Ph.D.
  • The State of Affairs: Rethinking our clinical attitudes toward infidelity, Esther Perel
  • Primed for Life: Psychotherapy for Marital and Family Issues of Older Adults, Barry Jacobs Psy.D.

Publications

  • Training for Adoption-Competency Curriculum in Handbook of Modern Adoption: Connecting Research to Policy and Practice, with Debbie Riley, Edited by Gretchen Wrobel, Elisha Marr and Emily Felder, 2020

Christy Van Horn, LCPC

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Christy Van Horn, LCPC


Office Locations & Numbers:

Gaithersburg, MD  (240) 252-7888
Alexandria, VA        (571) 378-6900
Bethesda, MD         (301) 364-4312


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Christy Van Horn is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 15+ years of experience serving couples and families. Christy has studied various clinical approaches in marriage counseling as well as “coaching” strategies and protocols. She works with all couples and relationships including couples who have experienced an affair, couples who are “fighting all the time”, and couples who have lost that “spark” for each other.


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Marissa Josiah, LCPC

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Marissa Josiah, LCPC


Office Locations & Numbers:

Bethesda, MD     (301) 364-4312
Columbia, MD    (443) 583-5957
Alexandria, VA    (571) 378-6900


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Marissa Josiah is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with over 15 years of experience serving couples and families. She has studied researched-backed models in the couples therapy field (Gottman, Imago, etc) and has advanced experience treating trauma. Marissa specializes in helping couples who are fighting all the time, have experienced infidelity, past or on-going trauma, and couples who have lost that “spark” for each other.


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Lori Shapiro, LCSW-C, LICSW

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Lori Shapiro, LCSW-C, LICSW


Office Locations & Numbers:

Bethesda, MD       (301) 364-4312
Washington, DC   (202) 792-6294
McLean, VA           (571) 297-2625


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Lori Shapiro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has made helping couples and families her specialty for 20+ years. Her areas of expertise include helping couples overcome infidelity, couples who are “fighting all the time,” and couples who have seen their relationship spark grow stale.  Lori is LGBTQ friendly as well as alternate lifestyle friendly. In addition to being a couples specialist with multiple relationship-focused trainings, Lori is also an AASECT certified sex therapist and is comfortable helping couples explore intimacy and connection.


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