Naomi Durand-Kabasela, LCPC, LPC

Naomi Durand-Kabasela is a licensed clinician who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, mood shifts, and trauma-related concerns. She brings 20 years of experience and a straightforward, respectful style to sessions. Naomi aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable for someone feeling overwhelmed.

Her approach is collaborative and practical. She listens to what a person wants to address and shapes conversations around those goals. Sessions focus on building on strengths, learning tangible skills, and creating small steps that fit into everyday life.

Naomi uses client-centered techniques so the person’s perspective stays central. She also draws on cognitive behavioral methods to identify patterns of thought and behavior. Dialectical behavior therapy tools may be introduced to help manage intense emotions and improve coping.

Over two decades in practice, Naomi has worked with a broad range of concerns including depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance and gambling issues, grief, relationship stress, sleep problems, and caregiving strain. She also lists additional focus areas such as chronic illness, trauma and abuse, and eating or intimacy-related issues.

Naomi holds licensure as an LCPC in Maryland and as an LPC in the District of Columbia. Sessions are conducted in English and she practices from Maryland. If someone wants to begin, she asks them to use the Start Therapy process on the site to match and schedule a time.

How Naomi’s approaches guide online work

Naomi blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior methods to help people manage specific problems and daily stress. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the person’s priorities in focus and helps build trust and direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and offers concrete tools to change them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides skills for managing intense emotion, improving distress tolerance, and practicing emotion regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Naomi will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first, tailor exercises to goals, and adjust the plan over time. The process emphasizes short-term goals, skill practice between sessions, and regular check-ins so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Session logistics are not listed in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful for fitting therapy into busy schedules, keeping regular check-ins during life changes, and avoiding travel time. Naomi’s focus on skills and short-term goals can translate well to remote work, and she will discuss how to structure sessions to fit a person’s daily routine and availability.