Over 40 years of experience and specialties.
Therapeutic Specialties.
Dr. Simpson is a Board-Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist with over 40 years of experience. Her areas of expertise include spirituality, grief, trauma, eating disorders, relationships and body-mind connections. Dr Simpson is known internationally for treating couples and has been a contributor to a number of publications. Her sub-specialty is working with grieving people having had a sudden loss such as a suicide, over-dose, motor vehicle accident, or as result of a homicide.
Coherence Therapy.
Coherence Therapy is a unified set of methods and concepts that enable a therapist to foster profound change with a high level of consistency. The work is focused on guiding clients to get in touch with hidden, core areas of meaning and feeling.
Family Therapy.
We work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing services that span from therapy for depression and grief counseling to parenting support, couples counseling and beyond.
Yoga Therapy.
Clients are drawn to yoga therapy both to complement individual therapy and as a stand-alone treatment option. Therapists often refer clients to Dr. Simpson when a body-based approach is indicated to move therapy forward when clients feel “stuck”.
Expressive Therapy.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Brain-Spotting, Hypnosis and Yoga Nidra are a few of the therapeutic modalities available to clients during an individual therapy session.
Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Dr. Simpson is a Board Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist with over 40 years of experience. Her areas of expertise include spirituality, grief, trauma, eating disorders, relationships and body-mind connections.
Couples Therapy:
Dr Simpson is a certified Imago Therapist and served as the president of the Mid-Atlantic Imago Therapist Association in 2023-2024. She also is a Master Practitioner of Encounter Centered Couples Transformation and completed a three-year residency in this modality. She has trained in Emotion Focused Therapy and has completed coursework on Family Therapy in Bereavement given by the Portland Institute of Grief and Loss.
Marriages on the Brink (Discernment Counseling).
If you or your spouse are considering divorce, but aren’t sure, consider doing Discernment Counseling. This service is to help you gain clarity and confidence about what steps to take next with your marriage. The focus of Discernment Counseling is not on solving
marital problems but on seeing if they could potentially be solved. Sessions involve separate conversations with each spouse, as well as time as a couple. This is short term, just 1-5 sessions, and usually leads to a decision to either divorce or give the
marriage a major last effort, with a clear agenda for change. Click here to learn more.