About Fanita
Fanita Jackson-Norman is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 25 years of experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy issues, career questions, stress and anxiety, and coping with life changes. She also helps people dealing with trauma, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose.
Her style is straightforward and practical. Sessions aim to identify what is causing strain and test small changes that can ease daily life.
How Fanita works
She uses coaching elements to set goals and track progress over time. Many people come for help with communication problems, commitment worries, or difficulties after separation. She pays attention to family patterns and blended family issues.
Caregiver stress, fatherhood questions, and challenges around infidelity or forgiveness are common topics. She also supports people coping with natural or human-caused disasters and with the fallout of domestic violence. Fanita holds an MD and is an LSCSW - a licensed clinical social worker - and brings both medical and social work perspectives to sessions.
Her work aims to blend practical problem solving with emotional processing. She prioritizes clear steps clients can try between sessions. People who choose her often want direct guidance and tools they can use right away.
The process begins with mapping the most pressing concerns, then moving toward skills that improve communication, reduce anxiety, and restore a sense of direction. Progress is tracked in realistic, manageable steps.
What Fanita works with
The areas below are the ones Fanita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LSCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Fanita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach emphasizes communication skills and behavioral experiments to test new ways of interacting. This helps with relationship tension, communication problems, and commitment worries by trying small, measurable changes and seeing what improves.Another approach centers on trauma-informed care and emotional processing. It involves naming patterns that came from past experiences and learning ways to reduce reactivity and build safer interactions. This work supports people coping with trauma, domestic violence aftermath, and intense stress responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and role-play practice. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a work break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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