About Atiya
Atiya Moore is a licensed clinician with an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) credential who brings two decades of experience to her practice. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her approach is practical and direct, focused on small, usable steps that add up over time.
Atiya often works with people recovering from trauma and abuse, including long-standing or generational trauma.
Background and approach
She supports clients facing addiction, career strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and identity concerns such as LGBT-related stress. She also addresses family-of-origin issues, attachment wounds, and problems like codependency and communication breakdowns. Her style blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices.
She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when helpful. Sessions can include breath work, brief somatic exercises, motivational interviewing, or practical behavior change plans depending on client needs. Atiya has worked in a range of behavioral health settings across Maryland for more than 20 years.
She is willing to consider creative, nontraditional options such as therapeutic gardening or energy management alongside more conventional therapy work. Her aim is to help people move past self-doubt, victim mentality, and patterns that block personal goals. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process that focuses on clear goals and actions.
She frames therapy as a partnership where small shifts and consistent practice create meaningful change over time.
Online approaches that focus on action and awareness
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills for changing routines and reactions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when emotions run high.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the therapy process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan. Clients and the therapist choose methods based on current problems, goals, and preferences rather than assuming one fixed route.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to schedule during a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or handling quick coaching moments between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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