About Chriselda
Dr. Chriselda Fleming is a Maryland-based psychologist with 27 years of experience. She helps adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, ADHD, mood shifts, relationship strain, or life changes.
Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping people feel more capable in day-to-day life. She combines clear, skills-based methods with deeper conversation about recurring patterns. That means working on habits and thoughts that can change now, while also looking at past experiences that still influence how someone reacts.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on small, usable steps and tracking what works. Clients can expect a respectful, down-to-earth space. Dr.
Fleming sets a few concrete goals, checks progress, and adjusts the plan as needed. She emphasizes building skills for coping with stress, handling impulses, improving relationships, and managing mood swings. Her clinical tools include cognitive-behavioral work to reshape unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, dialectical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, and psychodynamic ideas to understand recurring patterns.
Trauma-focused approaches are used when past harm affects current functioning. Practical matters such as scheduling and format are handled up front to reduce friction. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Contact begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session once a time is chosen.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Dr. Fleming often uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT breaks problems into specific thoughts, feelings, and actions so you can practice new responses and see what improves.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style skills teach practical ways to handle intense feelings, reduce impulsive reactions, and improve interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what proves most helpful. This makes it easier to match methods to day-to-day needs and personal preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you connect face to face, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins or written reflections, and text works well for short updates or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options offer flexibility for working around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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