Lynly Curtis , MD, LCSW-C, LICSW

Lynly Curtis is a licensed clinician with a background as a medical doctor and a decade of social work practice. She offers direct, empathetic support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Lynly focuses on strengths and practical steps to help people move forward.

Her approach is warm and person-centered. Sessions are a place to talk without judgment and to explore what matters most. She can include aspects of faith when clients want to bring that into the work.

Lynly combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is sometimes used for processing trauma. Client-Centered methods guide the pace and focus of sessions.

Over ten years of experience has given Lynly familiarity with a wide range of concerns. She helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, career questions, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. She also works with people struggling with anger, self-esteem, body image, eating-related problems, and compassion fatigue.

Practical tools and collaboration are central to her work. Clients leave sessions with clear ideas to try between meetings and a plan for progress. Lynly is based in Maryland and holds MD, LCSW-C, and LICSW credentials.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. In practice that means sessions emphasize what feels most important to the client and build goals from their values and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change behavior and mood. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Lynly treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose techniques together. The plan can change over time as progress and priorities shift so clients stay involved in deciding what works best.

Online therapy offers flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, emotional support between sessions, or when someone prefers typing over talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy schedules.