Therapy Group of DC
Online Therapy
Online therapy in Washington, DC
We’ve offered online therapy since long before 2020 made it necessary, and we kept offering it because it works. Same therapists, same depth, the same 45–50 minute sessions you’d have in person. Before each appointment, a secure link arrives by email. You click it, and you’re in. That’s the whole setup. We see clients across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and several of our psychologists can see clients in many other states.
Takes a few minutes. Designed by psychologists, not algorithms.
Your seat is wherever you are.
What Makes This Different
Not an app. A therapy practice that happens to work online.
Online therapy has come to mean something specific: a subscription, a rotating cast of providers, a chat window. That’s not what this is. When you begin therapy with us, you’re beginning a relationship with one therapist, a licensed clinician at a Washington, DC practice that has been doing this work since 2003. The internet is just how we meet.
Your therapist, every week
Not whoever’s available. Not a new face when an algorithm reshuffles. The same clinician stays with your work, session after session, because in psychotherapy the relationship is the treatment, and relationships take continuity.
Full sessions, real depth
Every session is 45–50 minutes of live video with a licensed therapist, and most of our team is at the doctoral level. No text threads, no twenty-minute check-ins. The kind of sustained attention that lets you get underneath a problem instead of skimming across it.
Everything travels
Psychodynamic therapy, couples work, cognitive behavioral therapy: the evidence-based approaches we practice in person work online too. What matters is the therapist and enough time, not the room.
What to Expect
What an online therapy session actually looks like
Before your session
Your session runs through SimplePractice, the secure system we use for scheduling, billing, and video. Before each appointment you’ll receive a link. There’s no account to create and nothing to download. You click the link from your laptop or phone and land in a private video waiting room. (There’s an app if you’d rather use one on your phone, but you don’t need it.) If it’s your first session, that’s genuinely all the technical preparation there is.
Your space
You need a space private enough to talk freely. That’s the only real requirement. Our clients take sessions from home offices, bedrooms with the door closed, parked cars on a lunch break. Headphones help, both for the sound and for the feeling of privacy. Wherever you are, the aim is the same as it would be in person: a safe space to say the things you don’t say anywhere else. And there’s no commute, so the travel time and stress just fall away.
The session
It’s a full session: the same 45–50 minutes, the same therapist, picked up right where you left off. Some people worry video will feel thin. Honestly, the first few minutes sometimes do, and then the work takes over, the way a phone call with an old friend stops feeling like a phone call. Emotions come through a screen more fully than you’d expect. And if the screen ever does get in the way, your therapist will name it. That’s part of the job.
Between sessions, and switching
On the weeks you’d rather sit in the same room, in-person sessions are available depending on your therapist. Plenty of our clients move between the two as life demands.
Where We Can See You
Washington, DC. Maryland. Virginia. And beyond.
With online therapy, licensure is what matters: legally, your therapist has to be licensed in the state where you are during the session, not where we are. We say that plainly because a lot of platforms don’t.
DC, Maryland & Virginia
Every clinician on our team can see clients located anywhere in Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia. Live in the District but take sessions from an Arlington desk? Covered both ways. The DMV is one clinical footprint for us.
Many other states
Several of our psychologists hold PSYPACT credentials, which let them provide virtual psychotherapy to clients in the large majority of US states. If you live outside the DMV, or you’re about to move, just ask. Odds are good we can work together.
Moving or traveling?
Started therapy in DC and took a job across the country? In grad school out of state most of the year? Continuity is usually possible. Tell your therapist what’s coming, and we’ll sort out coverage before you go.
Prefer to sit in the same room? We’re in Dupont Circle, directly above the Metro. Visit our Dupont Circle office →
Who You'd Work With
Therapists who work online, because all of ours do
Every therapist at our practice sees clients by secure video; this isn’t a separate telehealth team. Most are taking new clients, and each brings a different style and specialty for the challenges people arrive with. That range is the point: the right therapist depends on what you’re working on and how you like to work.
Keith Clemson, Ph.D., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Practice Co-Founder
Rebuilding emotional connection and trust in relationships
Michael Burrows, Ph.D.
Psychology Associate
Identity, self-esteem & the patterns that keep you stuck
Dominique Harrington, MA.Ed., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Rewriting the stories that shape how you see yourself
Kevin Malley, MS, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Anxiety, purpose & finding what matters, ages 14 and up
Kevin Isserman, Psy.D.
Psychologist
Exploring who you are & building deeper, more honest relationships
Jessica Hilbert, Psy.D.
Psychologist
Understanding the different aspects of yourself, and what they need
Paul Rizzo, Psy.D.
Psychologist
Anxiety, purpose & making sense of where you are right now
Rob Drinkwater, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Life's bigger questions: meaning, family & what comes next
Dana Treistman, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Practical strategies for anxiety, stress & the transitions that throw you off
Regan Mayo, Ph.D.
Psychologist
When life hasn't gone as planned, understanding the deeper why
Not sure who to choose?
Tell us what you're working on and we'll help you find the right therapist.
What We Help With
Everything we do in person, we do online
Most of the people who come to us are ambitious, high-functioning adults who’ve hit something they can’t think through on their own. We start with what’s working, not just what’s hard, and we take personal growth as seriously as symptom relief. And all of it is available online: individual therapy, couples work, every specialty below.
Anxiety & Stress
Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, OCD, and perfectionism, including the high-functioning kind nobody at work can see, plus practical skills you can develop between sessions.
Couples & Marriage
Communication, trust repair, disconnection, affair recovery. EFT- and Gottman-trained. And yes, couples therapy works over video, whether you’re side by side or in two different places.
Depression & Mood
Depression, mood disorders, burnout, and grief, including the kind of low that doesn’t always look like depression from the outside.
Trauma & PTSD
Complex trauma, PTSD, and childhood experiences, working through what happened so it stops running the show.
Career, Identity & Life Transitions
Career changes, life direction, young adult identity, self-esteem, and the particular DC stress of performing and not feeling it.
LGBTQ+ Affirming
Coming out, identity, relationship issues, and family dynamics, with affirming therapists who genuinely understand what you’re navigating.
Common questions about online therapy
Online counseling raises practical questions that in-person care doesn't: about security, state lines, and whether it actually works. These are the ones new clients ask most before a first video session.
Some situations genuinely benefit from being in the same room. When that's true for you, your therapist will say so. We'd rather tell you than have you wonder.
Is online therapy as effective as in person therapy?
What platform do you use? Is it secure?
Which states can you see me in?
How much does online individual therapy cost?
Do you accept insurance?
Can I switch between online and in person sessions?
Does couples therapy work online?
What if my internet connection drops mid-session?
What do I need on my end?
What if I'm not sure what kind of therapy I need?
You've already done the hardest part: thinking about it. The rest can start wherever you are.
Begin online therapy
Tell us a little about what you’re looking for: what feels stuck, what you hope will change. We’ll find you the right therapist and a way forward, online, in person, or both.
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