Associates

Dr Elise Resnick, LCMFT

I’m Dr. Elise Resnick, LCMFT - a Couples and Family therapist with a PhD in Family Science. I love working with families and learning about how they interact, how their environments impact them, and the unique role that each individual maintains in the family system. My ultimate goal is helping family members appreciate and understand one another while increasing harmony and acceptance across the family unit.

My experience with individual therapy is largely focused on children and adolescents. I spent the past three years providing mental health therapy to students in Montgomery County public schools. My goal with clients of all ages is for them to feel heard and understood. I focus heavily on the strengths in my clients. I guide them with recognizing and embracing the positive components of themselves. Via exploring personal narratives, family experiences, and daily struggles, my clients grow to feel empowered to alter patterns that often lead to feelings of being stuck or unfulfilled. I also work extensively with challenges such as social and general anxiety, depression, and school-based stressors encountered by teens.

I also enjoy providing therapy for couples. I have taught a course on Couple Relationships at University of Maryland, College Park for roughly 15 years. I know that it is hard to keep couples’ relationships strong and healthy, so I strive to help the couples that I work with break their unhelpful cycles, shift perspectives, and improve their communication, and understanding of one another. There’s a reason that members of a couple chose one another – I aid couples in re-sparking their mutual admiration.

I have specialized training in couples and family therapy, play therapy, trauma focused CBT, and ADHD coping skills. I am a certified Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer and also frequently present to local PTSAs on a wide variety of topics impacting parents and their school aged children. I enjoy working with a diverse population including the LGBTQIA+ community. 

When I’m not in the therapy room or traveling with my family, I am probably reading a memoir or taking a long walk while enjoying a podcast . (I also spend a lot of my spare time being schooled in Gen Alpha slang by my teenage sons.)