About Nadia
Nadia Maghsadi greets people with warmth and a straightforward style. She uses clear, calm language to help with issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, parenting stress, and struggles with self-esteem. Nadia lists MD, LCPC after her name; the MD indicates a medical degree and LCPC is her clinical license.
Nadia focuses on practical steps as well as understanding where problems start. She listens first, then helps people notice thoughts and patterns that keep difficulties going.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple mindfulness or breathing exercises Nadia draws on from her yoga background. Her work has included inpatient hospital care, juvenile detention settings, outpatient substance treatment, domestic violence intervention programs, and the National Suicide Lifeline. That variety informs her approach with people facing complex situations, including addiction, trauma, and grief.
Nadia describes her style as person-centered and humanistic. That means she aims to be warm, nonjudgmental, and honest while helping people set goals and try new ways of coping. She also pays attention to cultural background and how family history shapes current relationships.
In sessions she may use tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and narrative therapy to point out unhelpful thinking and to rewrite painful stories. She also uses Imago ideas for relationship work and trauma-focused strategies when responding to abuse or sexual assault. Nadia works in Maryland and offers services in English.
Practical approaches for online healing and relationships
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and building a trusting working relationship. It helps people feel heard and find their own solutions rather than being told what to do. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides clear exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and change behavior. Imago Relationship Therapy helps partners notice negative patterns and learn new ways to talk so conflicts become opportunities to connect.Nadia treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and practical needs, then suggest methods to try. Sessions can blend styles so the plan can change as you learn what works best together.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when body language matters. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send thoughts between sessions or choose written work instead of speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people use therapy in ways that match daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English