About Dashaira
Dashaira Bennett is a licensed clinician based in Maryland who helps people tackle stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) with 12 years of experience. Her style is direct and supportive, aimed at practical changes that fit everyday life.
Dashaira focuses on a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, bipolar disorder, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, sleep problems, and ADHD.
How Dashaira works
Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and issues related to adoption and foster care. In sessions she creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She helps people identify patterns that get in the way and tries to break them down into doable steps.
Conversations often include setting short-term goals and planning practical actions to test new ways of coping. Dashaira treats concerns that touch work and life balance, such as career challenges, commitment and communication problems, and coping with major life changes. She pays attention to how stress and trauma affect day-to-day functioning and sleep.
Her approach balances emotional support with skills that can be practiced between sessions. People who prefer a collaborative therapist who offers straightforward guidance may find her approach helpful. She aims to empower clients to build resilience and clearer decision-making.
Her work is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and shaped by a practical focus on real-life outcomes.
What Dashaira works with
The areas below are the ones Dashaira selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
Dashaira uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes helping people recognize unhelpful patterns and replace them with manageable behaviors; this helps with anxiety, stress, and sleep difficulties. Another approach centers on processing trauma and its effects through stepwise talk and coping skills, which can reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend techniques that fit the person's situation. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and methods are adjusted when needed.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching possible between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around life demands.
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