Alex Samets

Co-Founder, Psychotherapist

Alex Samets is a co-founder and co-director of The Baltimore Center for Psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Social Work from the Smith College School for Social Work and a Master of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Alex completed a post-master’s fellowship in social work at The Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas, where she trained in individual, group, and family therapy. At present, Alex is a psychoanalytic candidate at the National Institute for Psychotherapies in New York City.

Alex practices both psychoanalysis and a relational form of psychodynamic therapy that views the therapeutic relationship as central to the therapeutic process. Alex’s areas of particular clinical interest include treatment-resistant mood disorders and personality disorders. Alex has had great success working with people who have had difficulty connecting to therapists in the past and has specialty interest in therapeutic work with cisgender men.

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Kathleen Fanone

Co-Founder, Psychotherapist

Kathleen Fanone holds a Master of Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work where she was trained in a relational, psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy. In addition, Kathleen completed an intensive program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute.  For over ten years, Kathleen has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings with adolescents and adults facing mental health and other emotional challenges. She has extensive experience providing therapy to survivors of trauma, abuse, and neglect. 

Kathleen provides individual therapy to adolescents and adults. Kathleen’s areas of clinical interest and expertise include depression, anxiety, grief and loss, difficult family systems, vicarious trauma, professional burnout, chronic illness, issues surrounding pregnancy (infertility, miscarriage, postpartum depression, etc.), and working with gender-creative children and adolescents.

Kathleen firmly believes in the value of meeting clients where they are and utilizing a strengths-based perspective to emphasize self-determination and resilience.

Kathleen is an out-of-network provider.

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Rebecca Burrett

Psychotherapist, LCSW-C

Rebecca specialized in social justice and organizational development while earning her Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and she has more than 14 years’ experience working with individuals, families, and couples. She completed EMDR training at the Parnell Institute and is a certified Attachment-Focused EMDR therapist. In addition, she has completed postgraduate training in the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. 

Rebecca specializes in treating trauma, both in individuals and within the context of couple relationships. She has an extensive background working with couples to develop tools for productive and satisfying communication, minimizing the frequency and severity of conflict by deepening empathic connection, and managing separation and reunification. When working with individuals, Rebecca’s areas of particular clinical interest include treating anxiety and depression and their impacts on narratives about the self and others, in addition to building strength-based mental and emotional frameworks with clients who feel marginalized, silenced, or overlooked. Rebecca has been a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500) with focus on therapeutic breathwork since 2009, and she uses her wide-ranging knowledge of mindfulness and somatic practice to inform her work as a psychotherapist.

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Daniel Cohen

Psychotherapist, LCSW-C

Daniel Cohen holds a Master of Clinical Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Daniel has received postgraduate training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy + Psychoanalysis and Johns Hopkins Bayview Community Psychiatry. 

Daniel’s areas of particular clinical interest include working with people struggling with existential issues, relationship issues, and issues with self-esteem, as well as people simply wanting to deepen their understanding of themselves. Daniel has extensive training and experience working with people suffering from mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive-disorder, delusional disorder, and addictions. Daniel provides LGBTQ affirming care. 

Daniel believes that the key to successful treatment in psychotherapy involves a strong therapeutic bond, and that deep healing occurs within this bond. Additionally, he believes that developing insight into the way present suffering is linked with past experiences allows us to grow meaningfully both in understanding of ourselves and towards new vistas of possibility in our present choices.

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www.danielcohenpsychotherapy.com

Sam Hanft

Psychotherapist, LMSW

Sam Hanft holds a Master of Social Work from the Smith College School for Social Work as well as a certificate in contemplative psychology from Karuna Training North America. He is trained in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy and integrates mindfulness and somatic principles into his work.

Sam works with both adults and adolescents navigating life transitions and facing issues such as anxiety, depression, identity development, substance use, and disordered eating. He also works with individuals healing from traumatic experiences, including sexual assault, childhood abuse and neglect, and identity-based oppression.

Sam takes a radically inclusive approach to psychotherapy, striving to invite all aspects of a client’s identity into the room. He practices LGBTQ+ affirming care and welcomes work with queer and gender-expansive youth and adults.

Sam believes that the relationship between client and therapist is at the heart of therapeutic growth and change. Working collaboratively with clients, he creates a warm, grounded, and nonjudgmental space where understanding and healing can occur.

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Rebecca Wenstrom

Psychotherapist, LMSW

Rebecca holds a Master of Clinical Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work, where she received training in relational psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy. Rebecca also holds a Master of Science in Teaching from Pace University. Rebecca has post-graduate training and experience providing outpatient psychotherapy to gender-expansive adults and adolescents at the Maryland Center for Gender and Intimacy and has completed certification in the Gender ASSET tool for gender affirmative surgery assessment. Rebecca is a member of the GALAP pledge.

Rebecca provides individual therapy to adults and adolescents. Rebecca’s areas of particular clinical interest include working with people seeking to recover from overwhelming experiences in the past and present, and those exploring aspects of their identity in new ways or for the first time. Rebecca has experience and training in working with queer and trans people, disabled and neurodivergent people, and with people healing from trauma, difficult family systems, and experiences of loss.

Rebecca practices from the belief that by bringing compassion and understanding to the ways past experiences emerge in the present, we can begin the process of reconnecting to self and community. Throughout the therapeutic process, Rebecca is committed to keeping clients’ pace, strengths, and voice at the center.

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Rachel Hettleman

Psychotherapist, LMSW

Rachel holds a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. She has experience working with adults and teenagers in outpatient and hospital settings. Before beginning work as a therapist, Rachel engaged in advocacy work with men navigating the criminal legal system. 

Rachel has particular clinical interest in working with individuals (age 16 and up) who struggle with depression, anxiety, grief, shame, and their sense of self. She loves working with clients towards finding peace and making meaning in life, deepening self-knowledge and self-esteem, and building wholehearted relationships with others. 

Rachel grounds her therapy in kindness, warmth, compassion, and curiosity. She maintains a strengths-based approach and always centers her clients’ voices and their self-determination. She strives to create a therapeutic space where every person feels safe and comfortable to explore all parts of themselves and their experiences, including the parts that feel the scariest to look at, talk about, and understand.

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For more information on Rachel, visit her website:

https://www.rachelhettleman.com/