About Chelsea
Chelsea Luebbert, MD, LCSW-C, brings a decade of work in mental health to her practice in Maryland. She guides people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, or struggles with relationships and self-image. Chelsea keeps things practical and straightforward so busy parents and adults can get help without jargon.
She trained with a masters-level social work degree and has worked in several clinical settings. That includes an eating disorders center and an inpatient psychiatry unit where she supported adults facing serious mental health and addiction challenges.
Background and approach
Her varied background gives her experience with diverse concerns such as trauma, ADHD, addictions, and chronic illness. In sessions she uses clear, evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-focused work. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical strategies to help people manage strong emotions and improve relationships.
Chelsea explains ideas plainly and helps clients try practical skills between appointments. She is comfortable talking about sensitive topics, including intimacy-related issues, body image, kink and alternative sex culture, and caregiver stress. Chelsea also works with people facing career strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps set realistic, achievable goals. For people who prefer online care, Chelsea offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, clients use the site matching process to find a good fit and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. Chelsea uses it to help people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and to try new ways of connecting.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps people break unhelpful cycles by testing thoughts and practicing small behavior changes, which can be useful for anxiety, phobias, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chelsea collaborates with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals and day-to-day life, adjusting methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for deeper face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and let people use brief sessions around work or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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