Psychotherapy for
Love, Sex, and Life
Specialized Couples, Sex, and Trauma Therapy. Serving Washington, DC, Maryland, & Virginia
Joanne Bagshaw & Associates
Our approach:
Therapy for sex, relationships, and trauma that goes deeper than coping skills.
At Joanne Bagshaw & Associates, we offer specialized therapy for adults and couples who want more than symptom relief. We help you understand the emotional, relational, cultural and trauma-related patterns that shape your intimacy, relationships, and your sense of self.
Our goal is to help you better understand your patterns, develop more authentic relationships, and create a healthier, more satisfying, and connected sex life, while offering care grounded in warmth, compassion, and respect.
Why Choose Joanne Bagshaw & Associates:
We look at the whole picture.
Your struggles don’t exist in a vacuum. We consider the emotional, relational, cultural, and systemic realities shaping your life.
We Specialize in Intimacy & Complexity.
Our practice focuses on the places many clients feel the most shame, confusion or loneliness: sex, relationships, trauma, identity, and attachment.
We offer Depth and Insight.
Skills are helpful, but not enough to change your life. We go deeper. We help you understand your patterns, shift them, and create something more sustainable.
We help you create a life you desire, filled with authenticity, confidence, and resiliency.
And great sex.
Expert care from a team with advanced training in relational, feminist-informed, and trauma-responsive sex therapy.
Practice Specialties
Serving Washington, DC, Maryland, & Virginia with office locations in Baltimore and Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Explore identity, grief, belonging, and lived experience with adoption-competent care. Adoptee counseling and resources provide adoption-competent support that helps adoptees explore identity, grief, belonging, and lived experience with insight and care.
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Couples therapy helps partners strengthen emotional connection, improve communication, and build healthier, more satisfying relationships. We help you look below the surface and learn to understand and change patterns that aren’t working for you.
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Professionally informed pschosocial evaluations to support your immigration case. Immigration evaluations offer professionally informed psychosocial assessments to support clients through the immigration process.
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Meet Our Therapists
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Sade Adeeyo, LCPC
Sex, couples, and trauma therapist. Imago-trained couples therapist, trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT), and substance abuse /addictions counseling. Other services offered include trauma therapy for women.
LICENSED IN MD, DC, & VA
Offers statewide virtual sessions and in-person sessions at our Patterson Park, Baltimore office.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC
Founder of JBA
AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist. Couples and trauma therapist. Other services include adoption competent therapy, trauma therapy for women, LGPC & AASECT supervision, and immigration evaluations.
LICENSED IN MD, DE, NY, FL, & VT
Offers statewide virtual sessions and in-person in our Gaithersburg, MD office in the Kentlands.
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Atar Stav, LCPC
Sex, couples, and trauma therapists. Trained in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Other services include therapy for women, supervision for Maryland, LGPCs, and immigration evaluations.
LICENSED IN MD, DC, FL, VA, & WV
Offers statewide virtual sessions and in-person at our Gaithersburg, Maryland, office in the Kentlands.
Atar conducts sessions in English, Hebrew, and French, and works with clients 16+
Frequently Asked Questions
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Please review our therapists’ bios, then click the “schedule a free consultation " button to schedule a consultation with the therapist of your choice.
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No, we don’t accept insurance. We are an out-of-network practice. Our services are reimbursable, and we’ll provide you with a monthly superbill to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement.
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We help you understand the deeper emotional, relational, cultural, and trauma-based forces that shape your intimacy and erotic life, so you can create a life that actually feels like yours.
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Please schedule a free consult with one of our therapists. If you have a question that needs answering prior to a consultation, please call 301. 288.3723.
At Joanne Bagshaw & Associates, we offer therapy that honors complexity, identity, and desire.
In-person and virtual services. Two Washington, DC Area Office Locations
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Kentlands Office 316 Main Street, Suite 200 Gaithersburg, MD 20878Baltimore, Maryland
Patterson Park Office 165 North Lakewood Avenue Baltimore, MD 21224