Naomi Durand-Kabasela, MD, LCPC, LPC

Maryland · 20 years in practice

Naomi Durand-Kabasela is a Maryland-based clinician with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, addiction, and major life shifts.

License and registration

LCPC, Maryland: LC1698 · expires January 2028
LPC, District of Columbia: PRC200001481 · expires April 2027
NPI: 1104905454 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 20
Languages: English

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About Naomi

Naomi Durand-Kabasela is a Maryland-based clinician with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, addiction, and major life shifts. She greets clients with a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Naomi listens first and follows the client's lead to set goals and priorities.

She blends talk-based methods so sessions are direct and centered on what the person wants to change.

Background and approach

Conversations aim to clarify choices, reduce unhelpful patterns, and build more satisfying daily routines. Her work draws from several familiar approaches such as client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques. She also integrates existential ideas to help people face hard questions about meaning and direction.

Naomi adjusts plans to match each person's strengths and situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. People come to her for help with depression, bipolar concerns, anxiety, trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, and parenting stress. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, addiction, and career changes.

Sessions may include skills practice, reframing unhelpful thoughts, emotional processing, and real-world behavior changes. Naomi emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady encouragement while people work toward clearer choices and greater wellbeing.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Naomi lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Anger management
Bipolar disorder
Depression
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Career difficulties
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Blended family issues
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Family problems
Forgiveness
Gender dysphoria
Immigration issues
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Social anxiety and phobia
Traumatic brain injury
Visually impaired
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Naomi names

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Online support

Approach and access: therapy methods and online options

Naomi often combines existential ideas with client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques. Existential therapy helps people consider meaning, choice, and direction when life feels uncertain; it can be useful for grief, life transitions, and questions about purpose. Client-centered therapy creates a supportive space where the person's own goals guide the work and the therapist follows the person's lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Naomi works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they try strategies, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and in-session coaching. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or be an easier option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, homework discussion, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Naomi address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting stress, and career or life transitions.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her manner is warm and interactive; sessions follow the client's priorities and mix talk, skills practice, and problem solving.

What kind of experience does she bring?

Naomi has two decades of clinical experience working with a broad range of concerns including mood disorders, substance use, ADHD, and trauma.

Where does Naomi practice and what are her credentials?

She is licensed in Maryland and holds the credentials MD, LCPC, LPC as listed in her profile.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How are fees and subscriptions handled?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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