Dr. Alissa Putman, MD

Dr. Alissa Putman, MD, is a licensed psychologist in Maryland with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals across higher education and healthcare settings. She approaches therapy with empathy and collaboration, aiming to create a space where people feel understood and supported as they explore what matters most to them. Using principles from positive psychology and executive coaching, she helps clients identify goals and practical steps to move forward when they feel stuck.

Her clinical style is client-centered and draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and Internal Family Systems to address challenges such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and self-esteem. Dr. Putman works with a wide range of issues including career and job burnout, identity and LGBT-related concerns, family and parenting matters, grief and intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, anger, and coping with life transitions. She also focuses on areas like abandonment, body image, communication problems, divorce and separation, emptiness, family of origin issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, midlife concerns, mood disorders, multicultural issues, and self-love.

Dr. Putman emphasizes the importance of fit between therapist and client and regularly checks in to ensure therapy is moving in the desired direction. Her background includes volunteer work providing suicide prevention education through the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and mentoring underrepresented minority teens. MD denotes Doctor of Medicine, the credential she holds in addition to her license to practice psychology in Maryland. She welcomes the opportunity to work with individuals seeking thoughtful, goal-oriented support.