Beth Maples

“Sometimes you think that you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found”. This quote by an unknown author aligns well with what clients often seek from therapy. At times, all we desire is to be seen, heard, and validated – to have a place where our experiences, thoughts and feelings are witnessed by another person. As a licensed professional therapist, Beth works to create this type of safe, compassionate and caring environment in which clients are free to express themselves and are understood and acknowledged.  Beth also focuses on building a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship where humanness is valued. With our humanness comes mistakes, regret, wounds, pain, hurts and tender places of our hearts. Examining our humanness with honesty, love, and courage and then finding the willingness to change can be daunting. In therapy with Beth, no matter the concern or issue, there is a collaborative journey that takes place through establishing and tailoring goals for treatment, and the steps to reach those desired goals. Beth uses an eclectic approach, including psychodynamic, family systems, CBT, DBT, and strengths-based techniques and interventions. 

Beth is licensed in both DC and VA, and is a board certified counselor and clinical supervisor. She specializes in grief and loss, and death and dying and is a certified grief educator having studied under David Kessler. Beth has 15 years of experience working as an LPC in varying settings including hospice as a bereavement coordinator, extensive roles in community mental health, specifically with severe and persistent mental illness, group private practice and a graduate school adjunct faculty member. She also has experience working with couples, and running process/psychoeducational groups. She sees clients struggling with an array of concerns such as anxiety, depression, mood disorders, relationship challenges, life transitions, postpartum and death and dying. Beth graduated from Houghton College with a Bachelor of Arts in 2004 and Regent University where she obtained a Master of Arts in Community and School Counseling in 2007.