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MD, LCSW-C

Grace Dushatinski, MD, LCSW-C

  • Experience13 years
  • LocationMaryland
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • LanguagesEnglish
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About Grace

Grace Dushatinski, MD, LCSW-C, brings thirteen years of helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, and related concerns. She combines clinical experience with a warm, patient manner to create a supportive environment where clients can explore emotions and build practical coping skills.

Background and approach

Grace emphasizes strengthening emotional awareness, self-esteem, and resilience while addressing life transitions and interpersonal challenges. Her background includes extensive work in school-based and clinical environments, collaborating with caregivers and educational staff to support children's emotional and behavioral development.

Grace integrates engaging, developmentally appropriate techniques alongside conversations and skill-building to help clients express feelings, regulate emotions, and increase confidence. She also offers guidance around postpartum depression, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, social anxiety, isolation, and issues tied to prejudice and discrimination.

Practicing in Maryland, Grace provides sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She accepts English-speaking clients within the United States and uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.

To begin, prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Flexible Online Care

Grace uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skill-building and emotional regulation. One commonly used approach is skills-focused cognitive and behavioral work that helps clients identify thought patterns, practice coping strategies, and reduce anxiety and stress symptoms. Another central method is trauma-informed support, which emphasizes safety, pacing, and building tools to process difficult experiences while restoring daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is collaborative; Grace works with each client to determine which techniques best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they evaluate what feels most helpful and adjust methods over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules and varied life demands. These formats allow continued access to licensed professionals from home, support ongoing skill practice between sessions, and provide multiple ways to communicate based on comfort and convenience.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Grace commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem challenges, coping with life changes, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include postpartum depression, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is described as warm, patient, and engaging, with attention to building trust and using conversation plus skill-building to help clients manage emotions and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of experience, including work in school-based and clinical settings supporting children, adolescents, and collaborations with caregivers and educators.
What credentials and location are listed?
Grace holds MD and LCSW-C credentials, license number MD LCSW-C 19108, and practices in Maryland.
In what languages can clients work with her?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Fees vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to get started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling appointments according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseSelf esteemCoping with life changesADHD

Additional focus areas

Isolation / lonelinessLife purposePostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Experience

13+ years

Licensed

Maryland

Languages

English