Natalie Maiden, LCPC

Natalie has worked in several venues of the mental health field, including working with the geriatric population at Alexandria Mental Health and with the severe and persistent mentally ill in community mental health in Maryland, and her current practice is with adults, both individual and couples in Rockville, MD.

 Natalie provides Therapeutic Counseling for Individuals, Couples, and Groups. Specializing in Complicated Grieving, Depression, and Anxiety, CMI, Trauma Recovery, Cancer Survival, LGBT, and Life Transitions.

Natalie is a Cancer Survivor and dedicates a portion of her practice to help women and their families as they navigate the healing process and overcoming this life altering journey.  Natalie is an expert in complicated grieving, through academic training, life experience and therapeutic work. Natalie provides training for mental health providers on a range of topics, supervises LGPCs to meet licensure requirements for the state of MD.

PHILOSOPHY

Natalie’s approach to therapy draws from many schools of thought, and she provides an individualized and integrated treatment for each client. She has training in group, psychodynamic, experiential, family systems, couples, individual, Rogerian, and Gestalt therapies. Her underlying philosophy of counseling is grounded in the Psychodynamic Counseling Theory. This contemporary theory of counseling focuses on the unconscious processes as they are manifested in your behavior. In order for this type of counseling to be effective you will need to address uncomfortable feelings and issues in order to understand and modify current unwanted or negative behaviors

One of the goals of Psychodynamic Counseling is for you to gain self-awareness and clarity about the influences of the past on current behavior, allowing you to review unresolved issues. During the sessions, Natalie will draw from a multitude of therapeutic modalities depending on your need at the time. She will uniquely design your counseling sessions with your goals and needs in mind. In order for our counseling relationship to achieve the desired outcomes, you must take an active and engaged role in the sessions. Sessions last 50 minutes and usually are scheduled one time per week.