Tzipora Frager
Family-focused clinician with 24 years' experience
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tzipora
Tzipora Frager is a licensed clinician in Maryland who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, family conflict, and depression. She brings 24 years of professional experience to each meeting. Her approach begins with simple listening and plain conversation so parents can describe what’s worrying them without jargon.
She creates space for honest talk and practical next steps. In sessions she focuses on what is happening now and what can change.
Background and approach
She helps clients name emotions, sort priorities, and try small, doable steps between meetings. That might mean practicing new ways to talk with a partner or family member, setting clearer boundaries, or building routines to ease anxiety. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a range of concerns.
She has supported people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication problems. She also has experience with attachment challenges, autism and Asperger syndrome, and various personality-related concerns. Tzipora holds an MD and is a licensed clinical social worker - clinical (LCSW-C).
She blends practical problem solving with steady listening. She encourages small changes that add up over time and works collaboratively to find the next right step. Sessions are conducted in English and offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a parent completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their routine.
Practical approaches for family and online care
Two evidence-based approaches she commonly uses are problem-focused strategies and skills training. Problem-focused work breaks issues into manageable parts and targets specific behaviors or situations to change, which is helpful for stress, addictions, and concrete family conflicts. Skills training teaches communication, emotion regulation, and coping tools that families can practice together between sessions.Another common element is collaborative planning. The therapist and client decide together which strategies to try, based on current needs and goals. That way the plan is adjusted as progress is made and remains centered on what the family finds most useful.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit meetings into busy family schedules. Video and phone sessions allow real-time conversation, while live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins and homework prompts. These formats offer flexibility so parents can balance appointments with school, work, and caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Tzipora
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point