Yi Q. Chen, LMSW
Licensed Master Social Worker
She/they

I work with adults using an eclectic approach, combining elements of nature therapy, somatic parts work, expressive therapies, neurodivergent-affirming, and values-based techniques and frameworks. I believe in the power of nurturing your strengths, tending to your growth edges, engaging your community of support with reciprocity, and building healthy spaces together in service of individual, interpersonal, and collective healing. I also believe that you are the expert on your own life and lived experience, and I believe in the importance of meeting you where you are from a place of respect, care, curiosity, and compassion. Together, we can explore whether I may be a good fit in service of co-creating a space to help you feel more grounded, rooted, resourced, supported, and within your power to move towards what feels meaningful to you, and brave the journey of life with a greater sense of Self-agency, curiosity, authenticity, equanimity, presence, and purpose.
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C-PTSD, Racial Trauma, Stress, and Generalized Anxiety: Systems of oppression aid and facilitate different forms of pain, loss, overwhelm, and disconnection, and I believe that our personal, familial, ancestral, and historical experiences inform our present. I also believe that through integrative, systems-informed, trauma-informed, and somatic healing practices (with a healthy dose of hope, humor, and sense of connection and community) we can co-create the space to functionally rewrite and close the chapters that are rooted in powerlessness, guilt, fear, and shame, while freeing up the space and energy to help curate the meaning-filled future you deserve.
Interpersonal Relationships and Attachment: In our intentionally cultivated brave space, you are invited to explore, process, and reflect on your relationship and intimacy needs, styles of attachment and conflict, and patterns of behavior. Together, we can assist you in building the awareness and skills to approach your relationships with a greater sense of empathy, compassion, security, love, and ease.
Somatic Internal Family Systems: Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic modality that acknowledges that we all have different “parts” or subpersonalities of ourselves that each hold emotions, beliefs, and traits. This is referred to as our “internal family”. In Somatic IFS, body-based somatic experiences are incorporated into the therapy (such as breath, movement, and attuned touch) to assist a person in helping all their parts meet their needs and come into harmony. Somatic Internal Family Systems can be helpful in addressing depression, anxiety, attachment based challenges, and other manifestations of trauma. We can set up a consultation, and talk about whether this modality could be right for you.
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Payment Information: First individual session= $155; following sessions= $145
We collect the full payment and you’ll receive monthly superbills (special receipts) in case you want to submit to your insurance or FSA for reimbursement. If you have out of network benefits, after reimbursement your session fee may be $30-$90 out of pocket depending on your plan.
Please know that any communication or dealing with reimbursement denials are between you and your insurer. You always have the right to appeal denials with them, and request assistance from the MD State Insurance Commissioner. However, I am not involved in those communications.
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I am currently under the supervision of Jasmine Holland, LCSW-C, License #24206