Lynly Curtis
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C, LICSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland, Virginia, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lynly
Lynly Curtis is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people feel steadier in daily life. She brings ten years of experience to sessions and focuses on strengths and small steps that make a difference. Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to make conversations feel calm and clear.
She works from Maryland and conducts sessions in English. Clients often come with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting questions, and work-related stress. She also addresses attention challenges, compassion fatigue, and mood conditions like bipolar disorder. In sessions she starts by listening and figuring out what matters most.
She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, along with client-centered care. That means she helps people notice patterns, practice new skills, and process difficult memories when needed. Her work emphasizes practical tools and personal strengths.
She invites clients to shape how faith or personal values fit into treatment when that matters. The focus is on setting clear, manageable goals and tracking progress over time. For parents and people managing family stress, she aims to create a space to sort priorities, improve communication, and reduce day-to-day overwhelm.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building on their strengths. It is about listening closely, following the client's lead, and creating goals that matter to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, stress, and everyday problems by teaching clear, practical skills.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, EMDR, supports processing distressing memories. When appropriate, it is used to reduce the intensity of painful memories and the reactions they trigger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means starting with listening, trying techniques, and adjusting as needed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family rhythms. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging offer more flexible ways to connect. These options help people continue care across schedules and life changes, and make it possible to practice skills and check in between sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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