Cara Burgess, LMSW

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Cara Burgess, LMSW

Licensed Master Social Worker

✓ In-Office: Odenton, MD
✓ Virtual Visits

Psychotherapy

Ages Served

Insurances Accepted

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Cigna

To confirm your coverage rates, please call us at 240-750-6467.

About Me

    I am a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who uses a person-centered approach to therapy. I graduated from University of Maryland Baltimore with a Master of Social Work with a clinical focus and a specialization in Behavioral Health. My clinical experience includes working with clients in residential and outpatient community mental health settings.

    I am a big believer in understanding a client’s circumstances and meeting you where you are. As your therapist, it is my role to facilitate and empower you to reach your goals. Everyone deserves a space where they can be open and fully themselves, and my practice aims to create that space for clients. I work together with clients to be able to find solutions to mental health concerns, as well as everyday problems. I implement a variety of therapeutic approaches, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral (CBT), narrative, solution-focused, and mindfulness.

    I work with adults and older adolescents. My areas of interest include treating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and relationship issues. I specialize in working with members of the LGBTQ+ community, especially those who are transgender and non-binary, and bring both professional and lived experience to my practice in this area.

    Modalities

    Special Experience Working With

    • BIPOC Communities
    • LGBTQ+
    • Survivors of Trauma

    Areas of Expertise

    • Anxiety Disorders
    • Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
    • Autism Spectrum Disorder,
    • Bipolar and Related Mood Disorders
    • Depressive Disorders
    • First Responders Care
    • Grief / Loss, Life Transitions
    • Insomnia or Sleep Related Disorders
    • Intimate Partner Violence
    • PTSD / Complex Trauma
    We accept many major insurances.
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    Renee Bonifacio Richberg, MA, LCPC, CMDP, CCATP

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    Renee Bonifacio Richberg, MA, LCPC, CMDP, CCATP

    Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

    ✓ Virtual Visits
    ✓ Speaks Filipino (Tagalog)

    Psychotherapy

    Ages Served

        • Adults (18+)
        • Older Adults (65+)

     

    Insurances Accepted

    • Aetna
    • Anthem
    • Blue Cross Blue Shield
    • Cigna
    • Medicaid
    • Medicare
    • United Healthcare

    To confirm your coverage rates, please call us at 240-750-6467.

    About Me

      Throughout our lives, we face various challenges shaped by our interactions with family, friends, and our environment. These experiences mold our reactions to the world and impact our self-perception, often without our awareness, potentially leading to negative behaviors that hinder our daily functioning and contribute to feelings of existential crisis, aimlessness, and hopelessness. By working together, we can deconstruct these behaviors through a solutions-focused, systems-based approach combined with a trauma-informed, humanistic perspective. This collaborative effort aims to help you rediscover your purpose and evolve into the best version of yourself.

      My professional experience encompasses working with clients dealing with terminal illnesses and their families, as well as individuals across various life stages struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and bereavement, PTSD, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. I am committed to creating an honest, understanding, and safe therapeutic space where you can momentarily set aside your mental burdens. Our work will focus on turning down the volume on life’s noise to a manageable level by rediscovering and building upon your existing strengths through a solutions-focused, strengths-based approach, incorporating elements from Coherence Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) tailored to your unique experiences.

      My scope of practice primarily serves adults (21+) who live with Bipolar Disorder and other mood disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, issues related to cultural identity (specifically, Filipino and other Asian cultures), and mental health challenges related to women’s health, including perinatal and postnatal experiences.

      Modalities

      Special Experience Working With

      • BIPOC Communities
      • Survivors of Trauma
      • Chronic Illness / Terminal Illness Clients

      Areas of Expertise

      • Anxiety Disorders
      • Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
      • Bipolar and Related Mood Disorders
      • Depressive Disorders
      • Health Psychology / Medical Psychology
      • Intimate Partner Violence
      • Life Transitions
      • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
      • Perinatal / Postpartum
      • Personality Disorders
      • PTSD / Complex Trauma
      • Women Issues
      We accept many major insurances.
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      Cigna Logo | Health Insurances We Take | Orchard Mental Health
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