Dashaira Bennett , MD, LCSW-C

Dashaira Bennett is a Maryland-based clinician who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She brings 12 years of professional experience and holds an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) credential. Dashaira aims to make sessions feel straightforward and nonjudgmental so people can talk about difficult feelings and choices.

She uses practical conversation and goal-focused work to help people build confidence and cope with life changes. That includes support for career strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, and substance concerns. Dashaira also addresses issues tied to identity and LGBTQ concerns, chronic health challenges, and caregiving strain.

People come to her for help with trauma and abuse recovery, depression, anger, bipolar-related coping, and addictive behaviors. She also supports those facing attachment and abandonment issues, body image struggles, or complicated family roles such as blended households and adoption or foster care histories.

Sessions are meant to be collaborative; Dashaira works with each person to set clear goals and try practical steps between meetings. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes, and she adjusts pace to what each person needs.

Her approach aims to balance emotional understanding with real-world problem solving. That means talking through feelings, practicing new ways to respond, and planning doable changes. Dashaira frames therapy as a partnership focused on clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

The work often blends evidence-based techniques that focus on processing difficult experiences and building practical skills. One common approach involves trauma-informed work that helps people name painful memories, reduce their hold on daily life, and practice safer ways of responding to triggers. This can help with trauma, abuse recovery, and anxiety related to past events.

Another frequent focus is skills-based coaching that targets stress, sleep issues, mood management, and addictive behaviors. This approach uses concrete steps and experiments people can try between sessions to build confidence and reduce symptoms over time.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as progress is made. That collaboration helps tailor the work to career pressures, parenting needs, identity concerns, or health-related stress.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, quick check-ins work well by live chat, and ongoing support or short updates are convenient through text messaging. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.