Psychotherapy & psychoanalysis to help you see your choices clearly.
Insight-oriented treatment for individuals, couples, young adults and adolescents — in Bethesda and by secure telehealth.
Howard University School of Medicine
Understand the patterns that shape your life.
I use insight-oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to help identify patterns in a person’s life that may be contributing to their current difficulties, to improve the nature of their interpersonal communication, and to achieve a more fulfilling life.
Psychoanalysis goes beyond symptom relief. Over time, it builds the capacity to make choices for yourself — and to regain or achieve a sense of security, self-esteem and self-actualization.
Who I work with
What I help with
“I strongly believe in a person’s autonomy and that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis can help an individual to see their choices clearly.”
Fernando Tripodi, MSWHow I work
In person at my Bethesda office, or by secure telehealth in DC, Maryland and Washington State. Sessions are also available in Spanish.
Psychoanalysis
In-depth, insight-oriented treatment that works with patterns at their roots.
Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy for depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and life transitions.
Couples therapy
Improving communication and understanding the dynamics between partners.
Young adults & adolescents
Support through identity, independence and the pressures of growing up.
Group therapy
Including the Families of People with Substance Use Group in Bethesda.
Group details →Immigration evaluations
U & T Visas · Asylum · VAWA · Hardship waivers · Substance use · N-648. Expedited evaluations and free consultations available.
Fernando Tripodi, MSW
I’m a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist licensed in Washington, DC, Maryland and Washington State. My clinical work centers on depression, anxiety, trauma and PTSD, relationships, loss and grief — and the difficulties of acculturation and adapting to life in a new country.
Alongside my practice, I teach psychiatry and psychoanalysis, supervise clinicians, and research and write on psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.
Teaching & affiliations
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