The Baltimore Center for Psychotherapy holds a fundamental belief in the curative power of relationship. We understand that most suffering emerges out of relationships and, in turn, causes suffering that manifests in relationships. It follows that relationships hold the key to understanding, healing from, and transforming suffering, and that therapeutic work done in this method allows for both internal liberation and an opportunity for new thriving within relationships.
Most of us have suffered from external losses and disappointments and many of us continue to suffer as those losses are woven into our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Therapy provides an opportunity to explore and understand the complex dynamics at play in our continued suffering and allows us to utilize insight and relationships to move toward increased ease and liberation. The Baltimore Center for Psychotherapy is here to support you in this process.
a message from our founders
We founded The Baltimore Center for Psychotherapy in 2018 to create a psychotherapy practice emphasizing deep connections that promote healing and change—connections between therapist and patient, between collaborating professionals, and between theoretical models and practical modalities. We believe that therapy is about more than changing behavior; at BCP, we understand therapy to be a process of generative self-reflection through which we come to know ourselves with greater compassion and to build our capacities for both relationship and autonomy.
Whether people come to BCP to work through traumas, understand their relationship challenges, or treat an ongoing mental health issue, therapists practicing and training at BCP think about the many contexts that form and inform who and how people are. We believe that the work of knowing oneself is a liberatory practice that increases one’s ability to make free and full choices with one’s life.
And at BCP, we understand that the context in which a therapist works absolutely shapes the experience of therapy for both therapist and patient. For this reason, we are committed to curating and cultivating a beautiful practice space within which therapists are free to engage with patients and with one another in a way that prioritizes collegial collaboration, physical comfort, and aesthetic calm. The physical space and professional commitment of The Baltimore Center for Psychotherapy are to promote thinking and working in a way that feels alive and enlivening for both therapist and patient.
Thank you for visiting us and exploring our offerings; we look forward to connecting with you.
Alex Samets and Kathleen Fanone, co-founders
