Barbara Kass, MD, LCPC

Barbara Kass is a Maryland-based clinician with 11 years of experience who holds MD and LCPC credentials - MD indicates a medical doctor and LCPC stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She has focused her career on helping people reconnect with their capacity to heal and regain a sense of wholeness, offering support for trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, stress management, and adjustment difficulties.

In addition to addressing emotional and trauma-related concerns, she assists clients navigating career challenges and other life transitions. Her professional background includes work in hospitals, clinics, private practice, and county services, providing a breadth of experience across care settings. She maintains a specialty in pastoral counseling and is comfortable addressing spiritual and religious matters as part of therapy.

Kass approaches counseling as a collaborative process tailored to each person’s primary concerns and therapeutic goals. Her methods draw from client-centered and humanistic foundations and include cognitive behavioral techniques, cognitive processing strategies, and rational emotive behavior approaches. She also integrates expressive writing, mindfulness practices, breathing and meditation exercises, and body-awareness work to complement traditional psychotherapy and support practical coping skills.