About Tzipora
Tzipora Frager, MD, LCSW-C helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and address relationship and family concerns. She offers straightforward support for depression and related struggles. Her style is calm and practical, focused on clear steps that people can try between sessions.
She creates a space where clients can talk honestly without judgment. Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep problems alive and to test small changes that feel doable.
Background and approach
Tzipora uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and keeps explanations plain so people understand what they are trying. With 24 years of professional experience, she has worked with a wide range of concerns tied to attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems.
She also supports people facing medical issues like chronic pain, cancer, or caregiver stress and those navigating adoption, blended family matters, or aging-related concerns. Tzipora combines medical training as an MD with clinical social work practice as a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland. That mix informs a practical, whole-person view of emotional and behavioral problems.
Sessions focus on improving daily routines, sharpening communication, and building coping skills. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment according to therapist availability.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
The therapist uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing patterns and building coping skills. One common approach helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding to anxiety or stress; it is useful for panic, worry, and persistent negative thinking. Another approach emphasizes behavioral change by setting small, achievable goals and tracking progress over time; this works well for addictive behaviors, low mood, and daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deep conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or times when a shorter touchpoint is needed. These formats aim to make care more flexible and accessible while supporting steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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