About Dashaira
Dashaira Bennett, MD, LCSW-C helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely so people can say what they need to say. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at daily life and real problems.
Dashaira combines twelve years of clinical experience with medical and social work training. She focuses on everyday struggles like low self-esteem, career stress, sleep troubles, and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma, addiction, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is collaborative. Sessions usually begin by identifying immediate concerns and realistic steps to try between meetings.
She balances emotional support with practical strategies for coping, organization, and managing symptoms that interfere with work and relationships. Dashaira is attentive to identity and relationship issues. She addresses LGBT concerns, intimacy-related problems, communication and commitment difficulties, and blended family stress.
She also helps people who are dealing with adoption and foster care matters, caregiver strain, chronic health challenges, or complicated grief. People who want flexible help often use phone or video sessions and message-based check-ins. Dashaira works from Maryland and conducts sessions in English.
She focuses on what a person can do now to feel steadier and more able to handle daily life.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Dashaira uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One common approach helps people break large problems into small steps they can practice between sessions; it is useful for managing anxiety, procrastination, and everyday overwhelm. Another approach centers on processing past hurt and building safer ways of relating to others, which can help with trauma, attachment issues, and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Dashaira works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, energy, and life demands. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans so therapy stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video gives face-to-face conversation when more connection is wanted. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are handy for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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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
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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