About Chelsea
Chelsea Luebbert, MD, LCSW-C, has spent a decade working in mental health and brings that experience to outpatient care. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed and wants to help them find clearer ways to cope. Chelsea writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Her background includes work at a center for eating disorders, where she provided individual, group, and family therapy. She also worked on an inpatient psychiatry unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping adults with chronic mental health conditions and addictions.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her skill with complex and overlapping concerns. Chelsea uses several approaches in therapy, including attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and existential conversations. She chooses methods to match what each person needs rather than applying a single formula.
Many people come to her for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, sleep trouble, parenting strain, or career questions. She also supports those facing bigger issues such as trauma, grief, mood disorders, and difficulties tied to identity and relationships. ADHD is listed among her focus areas for people seeking help with attention and executive functioning challenges.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions aim to name problems, try small changes, and build skills that make daily life easier. Chelsea practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they respond the way they do in close relationships and supports building more supported ways of relating. Client-centered therapy is centered on the person's goals and experience; the therapist listens closely and helps you find your own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and includes practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Chelsea will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust strategies over time. The fit between method and need matters, and she works with people to find what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you work face to face without traveling. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, short coaching between sessions, and a way to keep momentum during busy weeks. These options make it simpler to use therapeutic tools consistently while managing work, family, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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