Welcome
Welcome! To those exploring happier solutions as well as returning clients, thank you for choosing my practice.
This site answers counseling and telehealth questions and provides recommended resources. For 20 years, I've helped those facing anxiety, sadness, mood disorders, grief and loss, ADHD and interpersonal strife.
If you're discerning a relationship's viability, confronting infidelity, coping with passive-aggressive or just plain difficult individuals, you're at the right place. Do you feel taken for granted having lost the ability to speak up? I can help with finding the right assertive, not aggressive words, as well as with career direction, work and general stress.
I have additional training in helping couples and family relationships. Also, I've recently added cognitive processing therapy (CPT) to aid clients who need to process trauma or significant life stressors.
Couples Therapy
I've counseled all ages of couples. Those who consider compatibility for cohabitation or would like premarital counseling are wise to take this step. When couples become parents, I've helped them to navigate the change in their dynamics and household workload, and the same when they become empty nesters or retirees, each event creating different adjustments.
Blending families in cohabitation and/or remarriage finds many reaching for help for they are under even more pressure to get things right. Please see the specific page for individual or couples work on this website and scroll to the handy resources at the end of each page.
“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
Should you opt for coaching/career counseling, these services are not insurance reimbursable.
Coaching is an affordable option if you wish to have career or personal help that does not need a diagnosis, mental health treatment, and/or if you live beyond Maryland.
This includes resumé and letter writing, communication and relationship coaching (that does not co-occur with therapy).
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 Benefits
Therapy may be covered by your benefits and insurance; please select that tab to see what plans I accept and if arrangements can be made. As I am licensed in Maryland, clients using mental health services must 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 you. 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.