Welcome
Welcome! Thank you for reaching out to my online therapy practice, whether you're a return client or new one seeking happier days ahead.
This site invites you to learn about counseling and explains telehealth, for most sessions are conducted via online therapy. For 20+ years, I've helped those facing anxiety, sadness, mood disorders, grief and loss, life transitions, ADHD and interpersonal strife...and now, help with adverse childhood events and past traumatic experiences.
Are you discerning a relationship's viability? Confronting infidelity? Is any important relationship gasping for air and better understanding?
Do you cope with passive-aggressive or just plain difficult people? Are you taken for granted, unable to speak up? I can help find the right assertive, not aggressive words, to aid communication. Counseling can also focus on career direction, work and general stress.
Couples Therapy
I've counseled all ages of couples, from a variety of cultures.
Ever wonder if you're compatible to cohabitate or marry? Pre-marital counseling is such a valuable investment, it should be on a registry!
When baby comes along, happiness also brings a dose of overwhelm that shifts household dynamics and workload. I've helped parents navigate this.
Empty nesters or retirees feel shifts and adjustments that can leave them a bit bewildered until they work on their thoughts and gain traction in new habits.
Blended families reach out, under even more pressure to get things right. Please see the specific page for teen, individual or couples online therapy. Scroll to the end of each page to check out handy resources. And, be sure to connect via the contact link.
“In sessions, Loriann gives me ideas and useful tools to continue working throughout each week. Whether it’s a book suggestion, an app, or a new perspective, it’s all had a positive effect. I look forward to my appointments and leave uplifted.” — return client feedback
Online Coaching for Career & Personal Concerns
As I mentioned, career concerns loom large no matter the state of our economy. If career stress means anxiety and depression, we can discuss in online therapy, if you're a Maryland resident. If it's general stress, without a diagnosis mandated by insurance, online coaching is a convenient option. Though not insurance reimbursable, you can be out of state or out the country for online coaching. I will aim to make it as affordable as possible.
Career work can include resumé and letter writing, if needed. Communication and relationship coaching can apply to the workplace or one's personal life.
Help is but a phone call or email away. Use the convenient contact link to be in touch. I get back to clients typically within two business days, often sooner.
Using Employee & Insurance Benefits
Therapy is likely covered by your benefits and insurance. Everyone's plan is different, so please select the Fees & Insurance header tab to see what plans I accept. As I am licensed in Maryland, clients are asked to provide proof of Maryland residency.
There's much information on this site. Continue to the end of each header tab to fully explore what this practice has to offer. I look forward to helping you get to a better place.
Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC
A Johns Hopkins University graduate, Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC has a private practice in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
Via telehealth, she sees clients throughout Maryland and beyond using cognitive-behavioral therapy as well as the Gottman Method and family systems to help improve relationships.
Loriann is creative by nature, with her first career as a writer/author. Therefore, she uses experiential techniques, writing, journaling, and narrative therapy when appropriate.
She engages with clients to understand their needs and encourages all to work between sessions to cement new habits and jettison unproductive ones.
As author of eleven non-fiction books and two novels, Ms. Oberlin stays abreast of research, extolling benefits of reading carefully selected, self-help resources and losing oneself in a character's world—just one of the many coping mechanisms clients can use to feel less stressed.
“Since the Pandemic, telehealth affords convenient sessions to improve my mental health. Loriann is no nonsense, saying what I need to hear, with warmth and acceptance and a bit of humor, at times.” — mom juggling job, young family
Loriann writes about lowering stress, getting along with others and much more as she contributes to Psychology Today via The Full Picture, a testament to the breadth of her interest in a wide span of self-help and behavioral topics.
Perusing the articles tab/catalog, potential clients will get a feel for the knowledge and sincerity conveyed in sessions.
Ms. Oberlin speaks at community or professional seminars, including for the MCPS EAP, Talbot Mental Health Association as well as the Easton, Kent Island and Urbana Libraries and for New Beginnings, a group for those separated/divorced.
To have her speak or conduct a workshop, use the contact link on this website and/or click on About Loriann to send such an invitation. Learn more about her background as well.
Favorite topics to present includes passive aggression and hidden anger, a topic affecting both genders in so many areas of life.
How to Book an Appointment
Please use this contact form if you are interested in becoming a new client or if you have a book/author inquiry. I receive several requests each week and do my best to respond within a day.
Note that I provide telehealth for Maryland residents. If you live beyond, and your state has adopted the Counseling Compact, we can talk about services as well. Coaching is an option beyond Maryland boundaries, though it is not insurance reimbursable.
Please do not submit medically sensitive or private information via email or this contact form. Due to high demand, our first contact will likely be the first session we schedule. I'll send you forms to return in order to schedule that appointment.
I will need you to provide preliminary information—a snapshot of your needs— to assure that I am a proper fit for your concerns.
“Thank you for teaching me to embrace new ways of thinking and problem solving. I appreciate the lasting benefit of the work we did together. As you said, it has benefitted me in other relationships. Not a day goes by that I don't use some aspect of what I learned in sessions.” — Mom of Teenagers
I'll also benefit from knowing if and what insurance may be important to use, unless you choose to pay privately or use your out-of-network benefits.
Including this snapshot in a sentence or two eliminates back and forth and facilitates your getting any open spot on my caseload.
Contact the Practice
Please enter information in each block. Start out by telling me if you seek individual, couples or family counseling, coaching/career work, or if this is a book/author/speaking inquiry.
For counseling, do give at least one sentence as to what has brought you to seek help. Brief detail helps.