Naomi Durand-Kabasela
Supportive, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC, LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Naomi
Naomi Durand-Kabasela welcomes people seeking practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and parenting concerns. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most. Sessions focus on clear steps parents and individuals can use at home.
Naomi aims to create a calm, respectful space where worries are named and worked through together. Naomi is an MD and holds two counseling licenses: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).
Background and approach
She has two decades of experience as a psychotherapist and has helped people with mood issues, substance use, compulsive behaviors, and relationship strain. Her background includes work with grief, trauma and abuse, sleeping difficulties, bipolar conditions, and attention concerns. Her style is warm and interactive.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s strengths and goals rather than following a single rigid method. Naomi draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, from client-centered work to build collaborative rapport, and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotional regulation skills. Therapy sessions emphasize concrete tools and small experiments clients can try between visits.
Naomi also addresses career stress, compassion fatigue, caregiving burdens, and long-term health challenges when they affect daily life. She practices in Maryland and conducts work in English. Parents or adults looking for steady guidance and clear next steps will find her approach direct and supportive.
Naomi invites those ready to make changes to take the first step and explore a path that fits their life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. The therapist follows the client’s lead and helps clarify goals, which can make it easier to address personal and parenting stressors.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, often useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep issues.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss these options and tailor strategies to match a client's needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy lives. These options let people access therapy from home, balance parenting or work demands, and maintain continuity between appointments. Naomi uses these formats to deliver skills training, check progress, and adjust plans as needs change.
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
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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