Eating Disorder & Anxiety Therapy in Silver Spring, MD
In-person and virtual therapy in Silver Spring for high-achieving adults navigating eating disorders, anxiety, and body image.
Geography does not have to interrupt continuity of care.
In-person: 8609 Second Ave, Suite 404B, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Virtual: MD, NY & all PsyPact states
Red Line accessible · Street & garage parking
In-person and virtual therapy in Silver Spring
If you're looking for a therapist in Silver Spring — someone you can meet with in person, in a private office, without commuting into DC or driving to Bethesda, this practice is here. Silver Spring is home to a wide range of high-achieving adults: government employees, nonprofit professionals, academics, healthcare workers, researchers, and people in demanding creative and relational fields. Many are privately navigating something that doesn't match the composed exterior they bring to work every day.
Office location
8609 Second Ave, Suite 404B, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Street parking on Second Ave · Short walk from Silver Spring Metro (Red Line) · Garage parking available nearby
Virtual sessions are also available for clients throughout Maryland, New York, and all PsyPact-participating states, useful for clients who travel, work remotely, or prefer the flexibility of meeting from home.
Specialties available in Silver Spring
In-person in Silver Spring and virtually throughout Maryland. Working with eating disorders at any stage means understanding what the disorder has been doing for you, not just managing the behaviors. That is where lasting recovery happens.
Therapy for anxiety and perfectionism
n-person or virtual. For government employees, researchers, and professionals in high-expectation fields, anxiety tends to look like productivity: the preparation that never feels adequate, the standard that keeps moving, the inability to stop without guilt. That pattern can change.
In-person in Silver Spring. Body image concerns in high-achievement environments often carry a particular weight: the sense that a disciplined body and a disciplined mind go together. This practice addresses that entanglement directly, drawing on a full eating disorder specialist background.
In-person or virtual. In environments where performing well is non-negotiable, depression often presents as flatness rather than sadness: still delivering, still showing up, still managing, while feeling strangely disconnected from the life you have built.
Who seeks therapy in Silver Spring
Most of my clients in Silver Spring are high-achieving adults who are functioning well by most external measures and privately carrying something that's costing them more than they've let on. Many are in demanding careers where performing well is non-negotiable.
Silver Spring draws a genuinely diverse professional population — government-adjacent, academic, healthcare, creative. The concern I see most often is the private presentation: the person managing something that most people around them don't know about.
Why clients choose this Silver Spring practice
Silver Spring doesn't have another eating disorder specialist with this background. My training spans the full continuum of care, from inpatient and PHP through outpatient, alongside a Harvard master's in Human Development and Psychology and a Johns Hopkins undergraduate degree. For clients who want depth and don't want to drive to Bethesda or DC to find it, this practice is here, in person and virtually.
Virtual also available
Throughout Maryland, New York, and all PsyPact-participating states. Many Silver Spring clients mix both formats depending on work schedule and travel.
Signs this might be relevant to you
things you might be searching late at night...
Many people who reach out to this practice in Silver Spring haven't used the words "eating disorder" to describe what's happening. What they've noticed is more like a background frequency that won't turn off: food occupying mental space it shouldn't, a relationship with their body that shapes their mood before the workday has started, rules around eating that once felt like discipline and now feel like something harder to name. You don't need a diagnosis to reach out. You don't need to be in crisis.
Food takes up more mental space than you want it to. The counting, the calculating, the second-guessing follow you into meetings, into the commute, into moments that have nothing to do with food.
You have rules around eating that function as structure. Breaking them, even slightly, produces anxiety or guilt that you know isn't proportionate to what actually happened.
Work lunches, department events, team dinners: eating in professional settings is harder than it looks for everyone else, and you've become skilled at navigating that without anyone noticing.
You've been managing this alongside a demanding job or graduate program for long enough that it feels like part of how you operate, not something separate from you.
You don't match what you picture when you think "eating disorder." You're not visibly unwell. You're showing up, delivering, being reliable. That's partly why you've kept wondering whether this counts.
Something in you knows this is costing more than it should. You've been waiting until you were sure it was serious enough to say something.
The high-functioning presentation (where the disordered eating is almost entirely invisible to the people around you) is one of the most commonly missed. It's particularly common in the professional communities Silver Spring draws: government workers, researchers, healthcare professionals, academics who have spent careers in high-expectation environments where managing everything privately is simply how things are done. If any of this resonates, that's enough to reach out.
Questions from Silver Spring clients
things you might be wondering...
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8609 Second Ave, Suite 404B, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Street parking on Second Ave, short walk from Silver Spring Metro on the Red Line, garage parking available nearby.
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Yes. In-person sessions are available in Silver Spring. Virtual sessions are also available throughout Maryland, New York, and all PsyPact-participating states.
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Many of the people I work with in Silver Spring don't have a formal diagnosis. If the relationship with food, your body, or both is taking up significant mental space, that's enough reason to reach out.
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That's a common path. Virtual and in-person can also alternate based on your schedule — many clients mix both formats depending on work demands and travel.
Ready to get started? Schedule a free consultation.
Fill out the contact form and I'll be in touch within one business day to schedule a free 15-minute consultation — in-person in Silver Spring or virtually.