Eating Disorder & Anxiety Therapy in Chevy Chase, MD
For high-achieving adults in Chevy Chase when the expectation of composure extends far beyond professional hours.
Geography does not have to interrupt continuity of care.
In-person in Silver Spring, MD (10 min) · Virtual via PsyPact · Friendship Heights and Bethesda Metro accessible
Therapy for Chevy Chase, MD clients
Chevy Chase is a community where composure is not just professional, it is social. The dinner parties, the school fundraisers, the neighborhood gatherings, the connections that stretch from law firms to embassies to Hill offices: all of it operates under a shared, unspoken standard of togetherness. You have met that standard for a long time. What does not show is the private experience that runs underneath it. The food calculation that happens before the dinner party. The rules that determine what you can eat and when. The relationship with your body that nobody at the table would ever guess. This is not just about work. In Chevy Chase, the performance does not stop when the professional day does.
This practice is located in Silver Spring, approximately 10 minutes from the Chevy Chase border by car, and accessible via the Friendship Heights or Bethesda Metro stops on the Red Line. In-person sessions are available at 8609 Second Ave, Suite 404B, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Virtual sessions are also available throughout Maryland, New York, and all PsyPact-participating states for clients who prefer remote care.
Specialties available to Chevy Chase clients
In-person nearby in Silver Spring and virtually throughout Maryland. In a community where composure is a social expectation as much as a professional one, the eating disorder or complicated food relationship tends to stay especially private. Not just hidden at work but hidden everywhere. Understanding what it has been doing for you is where the lasting work begins.
Therapy for anxiety and perfectionism
In-person or virtual. For Chevy Chase-area clients when the standard of holding everything together, at work, at home, in the neighborhood, has become harder to sustain than it looks. The anxiety that keeps you performing is the same anxiety that is costing you. Those two things can be addressed at the same time.
In-person or virtual. Body image in a community where appearance is part of the social fabric carries a particular kind of weight. This practice draws on a full eating disorder specialist background to address the way the relationship with the body becomes entangled with the sense of who you are in a community like this one.
In-person or virtual. Depression that sits underneath a composed, high-functioning exterior is one of the most commonly missed presentations. The flatness, the distance from your own life, the sense that you are performing a version of yourself: all of that is worth bringing to the work.
Who seeks therapy at this practice from Chevy Chase
The people I work with from the Chevy Chase area are most often established professionals in their late 30s, 40s, and 50s who have built careers, families, and reputations over many years. Many are lawyers, lobbyists, diplomats, physicians, executives, and people in senior government roles whose professional and social lives are deeply intertwined. Many have been managing a complicated relationship with food or their body for long enough that it has become simply how they are. The idea that this is something they could address, and that addressing it would not require becoming a different kind of person, is often what brings them in.
Why clients from Chevy Chase choose this practice
This practice is a solo psychology practice, which means one clinician, one relationship, and consistent depth over time. My background spans the full continuum of eating disorder care, from inpatient and partial hospitalization through outpatient, which means I understand what the high-functioning presentation looks like at every stage, including the stage where it is entirely invisible to everyone around you. I hold a master's from Harvard in Human Development and Psychology and a bachelor's from Johns Hopkins. I am 10 minutes from Chevy Chase, in person, and available virtually throughout Maryland.
Signs this might be relevant to you
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Many people who reach out from Chevy Chase have never described their experience as an eating disorder. What they notice is more private: something that runs alongside a fully functioning life without being visible to anyone in it. They are not in crisis. They are managing. That is part of why they have not said anything.
You host dinner parties and barely eat at them. You have a system. Nobody has ever noticed.
Before social events involving food, there is a calculation. What will be served, what you will eat, what you will say if someone comments. You do not experience this as unusual anymore.
The rules you follow around food feel like self-discipline. From the inside, breaking them produces something closer to dread.
You have more flexibility at work than you do at home alone. The private eating is a different experience from the public one and always has been.
Your body occupies more of your thinking than you would choose. It shapes how you feel walking into a room, regardless of how the room sees you.
You have assumed this is just how you are. You have functioned well enough for long enough that addressing it has never felt urgent. It has just been there.
The high-functioning presentation, where the complicated relationship with food or the body is entirely invisible to the people closest to you, is one of the most common presentations in this practice. It does not require a crisis to address. It requires a space where you do not have to maintain the performance.
Questions from Chevy Chase clients
things you might be wondering...
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Yes. The fact that it is invisible to others does not reduce what it costs you privately. Many of the people in this practice are high-functioning by every external measure. The internal experience is what brought them in, not the external presentation.
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No. The length of time a pattern has been present does not determine what is possible. In many cases, patterns that have been present for a long time are simply more established, which means the work goes deeper rather than faster. This practice is specifically built for that kind of work.
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A diagnosis is not required. If the relationship with food, your body, or both is taking up mental space, affecting your quality of life, or costing you something you value, that is enough. Many of the people I work with have never had a formal diagnosis.
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The office is at 8609 Second Ave, Suite 404B, Silver Spring, MD 20910, approximately 10 minutes from the Chevy Chase border by car. Accessible via the Friendship Heights or Bethesda Metro stops on the Red Line. Virtual sessions are also available throughout Maryland.
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