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Ivy Edelstein

LCSW-C

Ivy is genuine, compassionate, and engaging. She believes that people have an innate drive towards health and wholeness. She helps women work through a wide variety of concerns, such as sexual trauma, patterns of choosing the wrong partners, dating issues, relationship stress and distress, relationship conflict, intimacy issues, low sexual desire, sexual aversion, dealing with differences in sexual desire in their relationship, pain with sex, infertility, pregnancy loss, parenting issues, grief and bereavement, anxiety, depression, and stress.

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Hear from Ivy

You and Ivy may work well together if ...

  • You would like healing from trauma

  • ​Sex makes you feel nervous or uncomfortable and you would like that to change

  • Sex feels like a chore or another thing on your to-do list and you want to actually connect with your partner and enjoy sex

  • You are unsure about your relationship 

  • You have patterns of behavior that negatively impact your relationships

  • You are just feeling stuck and want to lead a more intentional life

Ivy's Story

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Ivy specializes in relationship counseling and has over 20 years of experience leading women on a path toward deep personal growth. She works collaboratively with clients to help them recognize their internal strengths and gain insight, confidence, and the necessary skills to face life courageously.

 

From dating to engagement to marriage to older adulthood, Ivy helps women with every step of their relationship journey. Ivy works with both single women and women in relationships.

 

She supports women in challenging relationships with hope and tools to breathe new life into the relationships.

 

Ivy is especially skillful at helping women develop a strong sense of autonomy and personal empowerment. She also has specialized knowledge of working with clients with a religious background, in which their faith plays an important role in their relationships.

 

She is a sought-after public speaker on issues of women's empowerment and building and maintaining healthy relationships.

 

She lives in Silver Spring with her husband and their four children.

Professional Resume

Credentials

  • Certificate in Advanced Trauma Treatment from the Ferentz Institute

  • Certificate in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MD and VA)

Professional Memberships

  • NEFESH

Education

  • Master's Degree in Social Work from Yeshiva University, in New York

  • Bachelor's Degree in English from the University at Albany-State University of New York

Licensure

  • Maryland License #22975

  • Virginia License #0904017686

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