Naomi Durand-Kabasela, MD, LCPC, LPC
Compassionate therapist blending body and mind approaches
About Naomi
Naomi Durand-Kabasela is a Maryland-based therapist with two decades of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life shifts. She meets people where they are and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Short-term goals and real-life tools are part of her work alongside space to talk through deeper experiences.
She blends bodily-focused methods with talk therapy to address how stress and emotion show up in the body and mind.
Background and approach
Sessions often include grounding, breath awareness, and attention to physical sensations alongside cognitive strategies. This mix is used to help people manage panic, sleep problems, and intense emotions that interfere with daily life. Her background includes medical training and mental health licensure, listed as MD, LCPC, and LPC.
Over 20 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns such as bipolar disorder, substance use, trauma and abuse, anger, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and career transitions. Naomi adapts her approach to suit each person’s needs and strengths. In sessions she aims for a respectful and collaborative tone.
She offers practical coping skills, mindfulness exercises, and emotional processing when needed. Conversations are guided by the client’s goals and paced to what feels manageable. Therapy is available in English and delivered through several online formats.
The process begins with a brief matching step and scheduling, then moves into regular sessions shaped by the client’s priorities and life circumstances.
How Naomi blends approaches online
Naomi uses somatic-informed work to notice how emotions show up in the body. This can mean simple breath, grounding, or gentle attention to sensations to help reduce tension and overwhelm. These techniques often help with anxiety, sleep disruption, and stress-related pain.She also uses client-centered methods that focus on the person’s goals and experience. That means conversations are guided by what the client wants to address and paced to their comfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, provides concrete tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills for mood, panic, and behavior change.
Finding the right combination is part of the process. Naomi will work collaboratively to test approaches and pick what fits best for each person’s needs and goals. Clients and therapist review progress and adjust methods over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, practice new skills between sessions, and connect from home or work without added travel time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English