Marissa Keilson, LCSW-C works with teens and adults of all ages. With a warm and non-judgmental perspective, her calming presence and years of experience helps individuals heal, grow and develop into their best and strongest selves.

Among her many talents is the ability to listen carefully and kindly, offering specific suggestions, ideas and support to help the individuals she serves improve in all areas of their lives. A natural teacher, she treats those she works with as partners in learning and growing, and makes sure they understand what tools they can use for self improvement and healing. Marissa has worked with individuals around issues of trauma, from sexual assault victims to veterans, and individuals who have suffered loss or life events that left them feeling they had nowhere to turn. Compassionate and affirming, Marissa values above all else the power of relationships and connection, and infuses her role as therapist with these principles.

Marissa uses a blend of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic techniques in her work with her clients. Her expertise includes the neurobiology of trauma, anxiety and stress; understanding how the brain works and how to help it heal emotionally. She is trained in the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of insomnia (CBT-I). She works as a couples therapist, combining her training with the Gottman Institute with her experience treating trauma, to help couples navigate the impact of traumas within and outside of their relationship. With an undergraduate degree in art and an awareness of the myriad ways we connect to ourselves and our emotions through creative expression, Marissa brings the use of art therapy and other expressive modalities into her work consistently both for individuals and in the groups she facilitates.

Marissa is skilled in treating the areas listed below, and is certified by the state of Maryland to provide clinical supervision towards licensure for therapists in training. Marissa is licensed in the states of Maryland and Virginia.

Cost Per Session

$$$$

Insurance

No

State Licensed

Maryland

Specialization

Abandonment

Active Duty

Activists

ADD/ADHD

Adoption

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Ambiguous Grief

Anxiety

Attachment

Birth Trauma (Child)

Birth Trauma (Parent)

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Body Image

Bullying

Caregiver Stress

Childhood Emotional Neglect

Childhood Trauma

Childhood Traumatic Grief

Children of Military Members

Codependency

Combat Trauma

Communal Trauma

Community Violence

Complex PTSD

Complicated Grief

Couples Intensives

Dissociation

Eating Disorders

Emotional Abuse

Emotional Neglect

Family Estrangement

Firefighters

First Responders

Foster Care

Gender Based Violence

Gender Identity

Grief/Bereavement

Gun Violence Survivors

Healthcare Workers

Helping Professionals

Highly Sensitive People

Immigration

Incest

Infant Loss

Insomnia

Intimate Partner Violence

Law Enforcement

Legal Professionals

LGBTQ+

Loss

Mass Shooting Survivors

Medical Trauma

Military

Military Families

Military Spouses

Miscarriage

Mob Violence

Moral Injury

Motor Vehicle Crash

Multicultural Counseling

Natural Disasters

Nerd Culture

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Orthodox Judaism

Out of Control Sexual Behavior

Pandemic Related Stress

Panic Attacks

Perinatal Mental Health

Physical Abuse

Physical Neglect

Post-incarceration

Prison Rape

Racial Trauma

Refugees/Asylees

Relational Trauma

Relationship Issues

Relationship Violence

Religious Trauma

Ritualistic/Cult Abuse

Self-Harming Behaviors

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Assault/Rape

Shock Trauma

Social Justice Perspective

Spirituality

Stillbirth

Suicidality

Survivors of Homicide Loss

Survivors of Police Violence

Survivors of Suicide Loss

Survivors of War

Teachers

Torture

Traumatic Grief

Veterans

Vicarious Trauma/Burnout

Victims of Crime

Types of Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Art Therapy

Behavioral Therapies

CBT

Cognitive Therapies

Compassion Focused Therapies

DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Expressive Therapies

Gestalt Therapy

Internal Family Systems

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Motivational Interviewing

Positive Psychology

Solution Focused Therapies

Strengths Based Approach

Talk Therapy

Trauma Focused CBT

Population Served

Adults

Adults in Midlife

Geriatric Adults

Teenagers

Young Adults

Services

Couples

Groups

Individuals

Supervision