Nadia Maghsadi, MD, LCPC

Nadia Maghsadi is an MD and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor based in Maryland. She offers calm, nonjudgmental care for people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, parenting stress, and issues with self-esteem or addiction.

She uses straightforward talking, breathing, and mindfulness techniques to help people manage strong feelings. Nadia emphasizes understanding the thoughts that drive upsetting emotions and behaviors. She keeps sessions warm, honest, and patient while focusing on practical steps clients can try between meetings.

Her background includes inpatient hospital care, work in juvenile detention settings, outpatient substance use treatment, domestic violence intervention programs, and the National Suicide Lifeline. That mix gives her experience with crisis work and longer term healing approaches alike.

Nadia draws on Client-Centered methods to offer an empathic space and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thinking. She also uses Narrative and Imago Relationship ideas to help people reframe stories about themselves and improve important relationships.

As the child of Middle Eastern immigrants, she pays attention to multicultural and identity factors in care. Nadia is also a yoga teacher and often teaches simple breathing and mindfulness practices during sessions to help with stress and grounding.

Approach and online therapy options

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, empathetic environment where people can talk through what matters to them and feel heard. It helps with self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and processing identity or cultural concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change patterns that cause distress.

She also uses Imago Relationship ideas to help partners understand repeated conflict patterns and improve communication, which can be useful for intimacy-related and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan together based on what helps most. That collaborative approach makes it easier to try different techniques and keep what works.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match your schedule. Video is useful for in-depth work and interactive exercises, phone can fit a tight break in the day, chat or text work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.