Douglas LaBier

About Us

I\ve served patients in the Washington, D.C. area for over four decades, helping men, women and couples resolve conflicts arising from the many changes and transitions they experience -- especially during the "middle years" of adulthood, My holistic perspective integrates psychoanalytic understanding of developmental origins of conflicts with the social, cultural, gender and career experiences that contribute to emotional troubles; feelings of limitations about change; your values. All can impede capacity for loving relationships and expressing hidden dimensions of your personalities; and for achieving success and meaning in life. , I help resolve and heal early trauma and current conflicts appearing as anxiety, depression, stress, chronic indecision, marital conflicts, work-related conflicts. and other symptoms. Through empathic and direct communication and connection, I help activate emotional insight and awakening, and promote growth towards more fulfilling, creative, positive lives. , " Im director of the Center for Progressive Development; Clinical Professor at The George Washington University; and have served on the faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry. Im the author of Modern Madness, and write frequently for the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and other publications. "