Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Germaine has nearly 10 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. She believes perspective is everything and values the unique viewpoint each person brings to counseling. Germaine has extensive experience supporting adults with a variety of concerns, including ADD/ADHD, anger, anxiety, depression and mood disorders, serious and persistent mental illness, PTSD, and trauma-related disorders. She takes an active, eclectic approach, tailoring treatment to each client’s needs with methods such as CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, and integrative health practices. Her holistic style encourages clients to consider how nutrition, environment, exercise, leisure, spirituality, and relationships influence mood, stress, and overall well-being. Germaine’s goal is to help clients gain insight, change unwanted behaviors, strengthen relationships, and achieve balance in their lives.
Robyn Dorsey is a Licensed Masters Social Worker who earned their degree from The University of Maryland School of Social Work. Robyn has worked with kids of all ages in a variety of environments including schools, shelters, psychiatric hospitals, foster care, group homes, and residential treatment centers. For the last decade, Robyn has focused on community organizing and advocacy, and they are thrilled to return to working with kids and families.
When Robyn isn’t working, you can find her wandering in the wilderness, embroidering silly sayings, or reading The Pout Pout Fish with all the voices.
Juanita is a Licensed Master Social Worker who graduated from the University of Maryland—Baltimore and earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Bowie State University. She believes in a person-centered approach, recognizing we are humans first, and celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit. Juanita is passionate about helping teens and young adults build the skills needed for success in life. She has experience supporting youth and adults with ADHD, autism, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, and challenges with communication or life skills. Using a trauma-informed lens, she incorporates CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, ACT, and Motivational Interviewing. Juanita believes therapy is most effective when clients actively participate in finding solutions in partnership with their therapist, working together to reach their highest potential.
“Juanita is amazing, relatable, honest and incredibly supportive. She challenges me with real feedback I genuinely value, even when it’s tough. She helps me refocus when I’m triggered, lets me vent when needed and has even guided me in my spiritual growth. I rave about her to friends and family and they’ve noticed my growth too. Honestly, she’s so good I want to gatekeep her, but she deserves the praise.”
Kasey is a Licensed Master Social Worker with a Master’s in Social Work from New York University. She has experience working as a clinician in school-based and virtual settings. Kasey has worked with clients with ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, and various other diagnoses. She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to meet clients where they are at and supply a warm and supportive environment for clients to meet their goals. Kasey is dedicated to supporting clients in achieving positive change.
Rachel is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Rachel’s vision for her approach to working with clients offers an applied integrative theoretical and holistic lens. Foundational theories informing Rachel’s approach to clinical work include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused approaches, and Compassion-focused. She has experience working with adults with substance use and mental health disorders at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Rachel will create a safe, nurturing, and nonjudgmental space for clients to process trauma and cope with life’s challenges. Rachel hopes to collaborate on ways to increase awareness of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors as it relates to mood disorders, relationship conflict, and overall well-being.
“I feel very comfortable in the sessions with Ms. Fields. She lets me express what and how I feel about issues going on in my life at this time. I'm glad that I decided to reach out and talk with someone. I look forward to meeting with Ms Fields. Also, I'm looking forward to developing goals to help me with concerns that I have. I feel blessed!!”
Christal graduated from Salisbury University with a master’s degree. Christal has provided services to people of all ages and diverse backgrounds. Christal is passionate and committed to providing services that make a positive difference in people’s lives. Christal employs techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), emotionally focused therapy (EMT), and mindfulness. Christal believes that issues related to mental health are important. Christal wants to bring awareness to the underlying issues people struggle with on a daily basis and help them develop self-care and self-love.
Madi is a Licensed Master Social Worker. She has experience working with children and adolescents in both individual and group therapy in school-based and inpatient settings. Madi uses a strengths-based approach and a person-in-environment perspective in her work with clients. She draws from her experiences utilizing dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) based modalities to help her clients strengthen their mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation. Madi has a particular interest in mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and family systems. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with her Master of Social Work and from the University of Maryland, College Park, with her Bachelor of Science in Family Science.
Are you feeling stuck, down, depressed, unmotivated, unfocused? Are you trapped in overwhelming emotions or unhelpful thinking? Are your relationships causing you distress? I am here to help you on your journey to greater inner harmony, balance, joy, and aliveness. I am an experienced psychotherapist who finds great fulfillment in helping my clients overcome their emotional hurdles and enabling them to live more productive and fulfilling lives. I work with adults, adolescents, couples, and families. I am here to help you discover your strengths and see the sunny side of life more often.
I specialize in treating the whole spectrum of eating disorders from anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder to emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, and disordered eating. I also work with those experiencing depression and mood concerns, anxiety, relational difficulties, family dysfunction, significant stress, ADHD and chronic health challenges.
I am also a clinical nutritionist specializing in integrative nutrition and a health and wellness coach who takes a whole person strengths-based approach. In addition to extensive education in working with eating disorders,I have had significant training in mindfulness, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, self-hypnosis, and personality type. I accept most major insurances.
Dr. Helen J. Chemtob, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist who earned her masters and doctorate degrees from the Catholic University of America (an APA-accredited graduate program in Clinical Psychology) in Washington, D .C. She has been providing outpatient psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and groups for over 25 years. Dr. Chemtob has been listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology since 1995. Throughout her career as a psychologist, Dr. Chemtob has worked in community mental health clinics, schools, hospitals and private practice. She has now joined our team at Bluegrass Mental Health. Dr. Chemtob’s specialties include:
*Individual, family, couples and group therapy with adults *Play therapy with children and their families *Individual, family and group therapy with teens *Work with children, teens and adults coping with chronic and/or serious medical conditions *Psychological and Vocational Assessment *Goal-Supporters® Groups for Teens and Adults (®Registered Trademark, Helen Chemtob, 2012)
Dr. Chemtob on her approach: My therapy approach involves helping clients to identify goals for becoming healthier, happier, more productive and more supportive in their lives. I then guide them in developing plans of action for reaching their goals, in locating resources that can help them reach their goals, and in tracking the progress they are making in reaching their goals over time. I also make a number of clinical tools available to my clients to help them with their work in and outside of the therapy session. I believe that going through the process of therapy has many benefits. These benefits include learning how to reduce stress and “distress” in our lives, as well as learning ways to resolve conflicts in our relationships. I also believe that a strong, positive relationship between therapist and client provides the best environment for getting the most out of the therapy process.
Dr. Chemtob currently accepts the following insurance plans: Carefirst of Maryland (Bluecross/Blueshield, Bluechoice, etc), , Cigna and Aetna.
I am a Maryland licensed clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience. After graduate work at Catholic University, I earned my doctorate from Duke University. I completed my clinical internship from Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I have been privileged to serve the needs of adult clients in Army clinics, in private practice, and in a career with the V.A. Medical Center in Baltimore.
My practice has focused on recovery from trauma, life stressors, and the consequence of disaffirming personal relationships. Distinct areas of treatment include cognitive therapy, positive psychology, and life coaching. I offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as a rapid and effective treatment modality for a broad spectrum of problems, issues, and goals. I value therapy and counseling as a collaborative process, driven by clients’ unique pathways towards their towards their cherished goals. In our sessions, we focus on choice, acceptance, and the discovery and, sometimes recovery, of strengths and joys
Johanna Roncagliolo-Garcia, LCSW-C, is a bilingual and bicultural clinical social worker and licensed clinical therapist. At Bluegrass Mental Health in Columbia, Maryland, Johanna provides culturally responsive mental health care to children, adolescents, adults, and families.
Johanna earned her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work with a specialization in mental health from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
She began her career as a psychotherapist at Good Shepherd Services, where she supported adolescents with significant emotional and behavioral needs in a residential treatment setting. Johanna later worked in an outpatient mental health clinic, providing individual and family therapy to patients of all ages and across various clinical populations. Her experience has equipped her with a strong foundation in trauma-informed care, emotional regulation support, and family-centered treatment planning.
Currently, Johanna also serves as a full-time school social worker in a Baltimore City elementary and middle school, where she provides counseling, crisis intervention, and ongoing support to students and families. She brings patience, cultural awareness, and a warm relational approach to every therapeutic relationship.
Lexie is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor from the City University of New York’s Hunter College with experience providing individual and group therapy to adults and young people in nonprofit and community mental health settings. Lexie approaches therapy as a partnership. She draws on a range of therapeutic approaches that meet each of her client’s unique needs, strengths, and goals.
Lexie earned her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from the City University of New York’s Hunter College. There, she received the award for Counseling Service & Advocacy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Stanford University.
“Lexie is an amazing therapist. She has worked so well with my child and been an invaluable calming, comforting, stabilizing presence in her life. We feel blessed to have had her support during some very turbulent times. We have had experiences with other counselors and Lexie has by far been the best. She is reliable, compassionate, consistent and honest.”
Olivia Braganza is a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor with a master’s in clinical professional counseling from Loyola University Maryland. She supports individuals across the lifespan, including children, adolescents, adults, and couples, with a holistic approach to mental health. Olivia works with clients facing emotional dysregulation, situational stressors, and interpersonal challenges, including anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her treatment is tailored to each client, drawing from emotion-focused therapy, experiential techniques, mindfulness, solution-focused interventions, motivational interviewing, person-centered therapy, and somatic therapy. She provides a compassionate, nonjudgmental space for clients to explore and grow at their own pace.
Esweni received her master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University. Her education is a dream to educate, support, and give space in the community. She has experience working with individuals of all ages on mental health concerns. She believes in meeting clients where they are at, supporting them on their journey of healing, breaking generational curses, and guiding them without judgment.
She focuses on helping clients find solutions to their problems by giving them tools and skills to improve their well-being while healing and creating new beginnings. Esweni works with adults with anxiety, depression, and ADHD using different approaches depending on each client. These approaches vary from CBT, Narrative therapy, and Mindfulness. She strives to make therapy comfortable for clients where clients can be themselves, gain understanding and have grace and compassion for themselves.
Avi is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), graduating from University of Maryland School of Social Work. With a decade of experience working in camps and youth groups, Avi has an expertise in helping youth and adolescents to establish and reach their goals, with a strong passion for helping individuals to work on self-identity and self-esteem. Using a therapeutic approach surrounding theories of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Person-centered Therapy, Avi creates a space for personal-growth and discovery. He has a friendly and warm demeanor, meeting each individual at their own level, utilizing compassion and understanding in all areas. With experience ranging from working with elementary aged children to adults, Avi sees clients for who they are and understands every individual's unique strengths and needs, fostering a space of expression and motivation to reach your goals.
Linda Riad is a Licensed Masters Social Worker who earned their degree from The University of Maryland School of Social Work. Riad has worked with students ranging from kindergarten up to high school at various locations such as residential treatment centers and public school. Riad is a school-based therapist who loves to incorporate creativity and CBT intro their work. They enjoy a warm cup of coffee while crocheting in their free time. Riad has two cats who love to cuddle and play.
She has experience working in school settings and outpatient mental health settings. She has experience working with children and adolescents experiencing mood disorders, anxiety, behavioral problems, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder, and other mental health conditions. She utilizes a client-centered approach to provide treatment specifically catered to the client’s needs. She has experience providing individual therapy and group therapy to children and adolescents experiencing mental health struggles. By utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, play therapy techniques, and other evidence-based practices, clients can develop social and emotional skills, healthy relationships, coping skills, stress reduction, and problem-solving skills. She cultivates a warm and genuine therapeutic relationship and works together to help clients operate on a level where they can thrive.
