About Nadia
Nadia Maghsadi helps people handle family conflict, trauma, anxiety, depression, and substance concerns. She addresses relationship worries, grief, anger, self-esteem, parenting stress, and sexual assault and abuse. Nadia is an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she practices from Maryland.
Nadia describes her approach as warm and person-centered. Sessions focus on listening without judgment and on building a trusting relationship. She blends practical tools with empathy to help people name what’s happening and make manageable changes.
How Nadia works
Her methods include cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and narrative work to reframe personal stories. Nadia also uses mindfulness and breathing exercises drawn from her background as a yoga teacher. These tools aim to reduce strong emotions and improve day-to-day coping.
Nadia has four years of clinical experience across a range of settings. Her background includes inpatient care, juvenile detention settings, outpatient substance treatment, domestic violence intervention programs, and time with a national suicide lifeline. Those roles shaped her skills supporting people through crisis and complex situations.
She brings attention to cultural background and family history when relevant. As the child of Middle Eastern immigrants, Nadia finds it useful to explore how culture and upbringing affect current patterns. She aims to work respectfully with multicultural concerns and issues around identity.
Therapy sessions are practical and collaborative. Nadia helps people set clear goals, try small changes between meetings, and track progress over time. The overall aim is clearer thinking, safer relationships, and more effective coping.
Nadia lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nadia works with
The areas below are the ones Nadia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches and online options that fit your life
Nadia commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard things and feel heard. This approach helps with building trust, emotional processing, and deciding what change looks like for each person.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, anger, and many everyday struggles because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nadia works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She reviews what is working and adjusts techniques as therapy progresses so treatment stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently over time.
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