Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma/PTSD & Relationship Issues

A place to heal, reclaim your self-esteem, and move forward with your life

Counseling treatment for trauma, anxiety, depression and relationship stress

Helping you to overcome anxiety, trauma, and unhealthy relationship patterns to feel more calm and hopeful about yourself and your future. 


You want to move on, but feel like something inside of you just won’t heal


Does any of this sound familier?

  • You are feeling anxious, tense, or more emotionally reactive than you want to be.

  • You often feel sad or down for no reason, and can’t seem to shake it.

  • You have persistent feelings of low self-esteem, self-worth, or not feeling good about yourself.

  • Suffer from Chronic pain or psychosomatic symptoms related to stress or other emotional factors.

  • You feel Uncomfortable in relationships—Afraid or don’t know how to connect to yourself and your partner, or people that you love, even though you want to? Feeling cut off emotionally or just disconnected.

  • You have been the victim of abusive or unhealthy relationships. As a result, you believe that "it's my fault", "I am bad", and that "there's is something wrong with me"?

If any of this sounds familiar, you have come to the right place

Providing you with a safe space for lasting change

Welcome to my practice! My name is Joseph Cooper and I can help.

I provide psychotherapy and counseling to help you not only find relief from your symptoms, but to get to the "root" of your problems so you can experience deep and lasting change

 I specialize in providing Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), an evidence-based treatment. 

I want your therapy experience to leave you feeling more connected, calm, understood, and hopeful.

Please see my FAQ’s to learn more about length of sessions, how I work, fees, etc.

Online therapy from the safety and convenience of your home

I am licensed in Washington DC, Virginia, and North Carolina and provide Teletherapy via a secure and encrypted HIPPA compliant platform to clients residing in these states.

Learn about my services

  • Learn more about the treatment of anxiety, stress, and worry.

  • Learn more about the effects and symptoms of trauma, and its treatment.

  • Learn more about common relationship patterns and how to break these cycles.

  • Learn more about the symptoms of somatization and chronic pain.

Ready to Get Started?

  • Connect with me for a free 15-minute phone consultation. It is important you feel comfortable with who you choose, and this will give you a chance to ask me any question you have to see if I would be a good fit for your needs.

  • We will work together to identify specific areas of difficulty you are experiencing and begin to pinpoint the root of your problems. Together we can work on developing goals and finding solutions to help heal those old wounds and find a new path forward.

  • Experiencing relief from old patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, you can begin to live the life you wanted, enjoy healthier relationships, and feel more comfortable and grounded with yourself and others.

You don’t have to keep struggling alone

I want you to feel in control of your life