About Taneka
Taneka Hamond, MD, LCSW-C, brings a practical, compassionate approach to therapy. She encourages people to notice their strengths and use them to face life’s challenges. Her style is direct but warm, aimed at helping clients build motivation, confidence, and clearer relationships.
With 22 years of professional experience, she offers steady support for common concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. She also helps people who are managing relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, grief, anger, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her focus areas when attention and executive functioning affect daily life. Taneka treats multicultural concerns as part of her practice and pays attention to how culture shapes identity and coping. She values each person’s story and treats clients as the experts on their own lives while offering ideas and tools that fit their situation.
Her background includes a medical degree (MD) and licensure as a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, LCSW-C. Those credentials reflect combined medical and social work perspectives on emotional and behavioral challenges. Taneka uses straightforward conversations and practical steps to help people move forward.
She knows that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process understandable and manageable. If someone wants to begin, they can follow the site's matching steps and schedule sessions that suit their needs.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Taneka draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and practical steps. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills and routines to manage stress, anxiety, and attention-related challenges; it teaches concrete strategies for organizing tasks, managing time, and reducing overwhelm. Another approach concentrates on improving relationships and intimacy by teaching communication skills, setting boundaries, and identifying patterns that get in the way of connection.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when it’s helpful, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting work, family, or other obligations into a schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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