Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Seeking help is the most challenging thing that most of us will ever do. Armed with life skills, information, and knowledge, we are expected to have all the right answers. Even if we have endured familial, racial, or socio-economic struggles and barriers, we hesitate to seek assistance because of our conditioning to perfection. This pressure makes it that much harder to speak with an absolute stranger and pour out all our life’s troubles. However, if that stranger is a genuine listener, makes us feel safe, and compassionately transitions us from pain to healing, it becomes easier to let that person in on our helplessness. One step at a time toward feeling whole is where it all begins.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the District of Columbia, National Certified Counselor (NCC), Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP), Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP), and a Certified YOGABODY Breathing Coach (Yoga Teachers College, American Council of Exercise). At Georgetown University, I offer mental health counseling to employees and their immediate family members and significant others. From bus drivers, housekeepers, administrative professionals to chaplains, academics, international scholars, and more I have engaged a diverse population. Clinically, I have worked on reproductive, relationship, addiction, small (t) and big (T) trauma, mood, personality, developmental disorders, and more. The focus of my therapeutic intervention is an eclectic and integrative approach to holistic health and wellbeing. Integrating and incorporating different treatment modalities, I engage your biological, cognitive, emotional, social, and prosocial self to empower you towards healing. Whether you prefer talk therapy or need energetic behavior change, I will help you start from where you are now. Be confident that you will experience a kind and non-judgmental space for your struggle. I invite you to come to meet with me.
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Seeking help can be one of the most difficult steps a person takes, especially when expectations to have every answer are reinforced by family, culture, race, or socio-economic pressures. These forces often teach perfectionism and make it harder to talk with a stranger about life’s challenges. When that stranger listens with genuine care, creates a sense of safety, and guides someone from pain toward healing, it becomes easier to allow vulnerability and begin recovery, one step at a time toward feeling whole.
With 7 years of clinical experience, Sandhya Wilhelm brings an eclectic, integrative approach focused on holistic health and wellbeing. She holds professional counseling licenses in the District of Columbia and in Virginia and is nationally certified as a counselor. She has completed specialized training in clinical anxiety treatment, is trained in mindfulness-informed practices, and is a certified YOGABODY breathing coach through Yoga Teachers College and the American Council of Exercise.
At Georgetown University she provides mental health counseling to employees and their immediate family members and significant others. Her work has connected her with a diverse range of people, including bus drivers, housekeepers, administrative staff, chaplains, academics, international scholars, and more.
Clinically, Sandhya has worked with reproductive and relationship concerns, addiction, both small-t and big-T trauma, mood and personality issues, and developmental disorders. Her interventions combine multiple treatment modalities to engage clients’ biological, cognitive, emotional, social, and prosocial selves and to support meaningful change. Whether a client prefers traditional talk therapy or seeks energetic behavior change, she meets people where they are and supports gradual progress.
Clients can expect a kind, nonjudgmental space for their struggles. Sandhya invites prospective clients to connect and begin the process of healing together.
For many common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, or navigating life transitions, online therapy has been shown to be as effective as traditional in-person counseling. It can be a practical option for addressing everyday mental health needs.
One major benefit of virtual care is flexibility. Clients can choose the format that works best for them – video sessions, phone appointments, live chat, or in-app messaging – which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule or to access help from different locations.
Online care is offered by licensed professionals and therapists, and clients have the option to switch providers if they feel another fit would better support their goals. For many people, the convenience and range of communication methods make online therapy a useful and effective way to begin or continue their mental health journey.
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