About Chelsea
Chelsea Luebbert brings a decade of experience in mental health to her therapy work. She holds an MD and a Master of Social Work and is licensed as an LCSW-C. Chelsea offers calm, practical support to people facing hard moments and confusing emotions.
She uses straightforward conversation to help clients make sense of stress, anxiety, and depression. She also addresses trauma and abuse, eating concerns, ADHD, addictions, and struggles with self-esteem.
How Chelsea works
Chelsea helps people cope with grief, career stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and the everyday strain of parenting. Chelsea draws on several approaches to guide sessions. She leans on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She uses client-centered work to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Her background includes work at a center for eating disorders where she provided individual, group, and family work with adolescents and adults.
She also worked on an inpatient psychiatry unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting adults with chronic mental illness and addictions. That mix of outpatient and inpatient experience informs a practical, flexible style. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Chelsea aims to meet people where they are and help them build clearer coping skills and steadier routines. She invites clients to take the first step and connect when they feel ready to begin.
Chelsea lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Chelsea works with
The areas below are the ones Chelsea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ones. It helps people notice patterns in closeness, trust, and worry about being abandoned, and then try new ways of connecting. Client-centered therapy keeps the session grounded in the person's priorities. It uses empathic listening and gentle reflection to help clients decide what matters and move toward those goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together. It helps identify unhelpful thinking, test different beliefs, and try practical behavior changes for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Chelsea will collaborate with clients to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will adapt techniques over time if something isn't helping or if priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing through thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain steady support across different routines.
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A practical next step
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