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African American Couples Counseling
We’re experts at helping people have the conversations needed to create a successful relationship. No matter how different you may feel you are from your partner. Our counseling team’s diverse background makes us ideally capable of providing African American couples counseling that is sensitive to cultural and racial factors that impact having a healthy mind, body and relationship.
Maya Foster, LMFT
Psychotherapist for Individuals and Marriage/Couples
Office Location: Dupont Circle
Call Maya directly at 202-629-1949 ext. 1
Maya Foster is an individual and couples counselor, and a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT). She can help you heal and change the long-standing patterns that are obstacles to living a life of greater joy and freedom. Her expertise includes trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, and relationship issues.
Working with Maya will bring you into deeper and more compassionate understanding of key parts of yourself. As a couples therapist, she actively helps create a productive environment in the sessions, and offers clear steps to create better relationship skills.
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Marjorie Nightingale, JD, MFT
Marriage/Couples Therapist, Sex Therapist
Office Location: Dupont Circle
Call Marjorie directly at 202-629-1949 ext. 7
Marjorie Nightingale is a marriage and couples therapist that is passionate about helping couples discover possibilities for healing and connection. She offers targeted interventions to especially improve communication and reduce conflict, and is skilled at providing necessary support to recover from infidelity.
Marjorie is a skilled sex therapist that specializes in treatment of sexual performance and arousal disorders for for men and women (low desire, anxiety, premature ejaculation, and erectile dysfunction). She can help partners successfully navigate sensitive topics like mismatched sexual desire, fetishes, painful sex (dyspareunia) or sexual identity.
In individual therapy, Marjorie is successful at treating anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship issues.
Marjorie brings a wealth of life experiences to her clinical practice, working as an attorney, non-profit executive, and director of a social welfare agency prior to becoming a therapist. She is currently a PhD candidate at Drexel University in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her numerous published clinical research has focused on studying couples therapy or sex therapy treatment for African Americans.
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Dr. Monique D. Walker, MFT
Individual, Couple, Family and Group Psychotherapist
Office Location: Dupont Circle
Call Monique directly at 202-629-1949 ext. 9
Dr. Walker is a couple and family therapist with several years of experience providing individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy. As a relationship expert, she has expertise working with communities of color, LGBTQI communities, as well as adolescent and women’s development.