Chelsea Luebbert, MD, LCSW-C
Experienced clinician focused on everyday parenting challenges
Book with Chelsea- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Eating disorders
About Chelsea
Chelsea Luebbert is an MD and a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with ten years of experience in mental health care. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, mood challenges, addiction, and parenting concerns. Chelsea aims to make therapy practical and approachable for people facing real-life strain.
Chelsea trained in social work at the University of Maryland where she earned a Master of Social Work in 2016. Early in her career she worked at a center for eating disorders offering individual, group, and family therapy for adolescents and adults.
Background and approach
During the COVID-19 pandemic she worked on an inpatient psychiatry unit helping adults with chronic mental illness and addiction needs. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered work and cognitive behavioral tools. Sessions tend to focus on everyday coping skills, clearer communication, and manageable behavior changes.
She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to help with emotion regulation when needed. Chelsea pays attention to how relationships, life transitions, and past wounds affect current struggles. She supports people dealing with grief, burnout, trauma, intimacy questions, body image, and parenting stress.
She also addresses career-related pressure and coping with chronic illness or caregiving roles. Therapy with Chelsea is collaborative and goal-oriented. She helps clients set realistic steps and practice new skills between sessions.
People can expect straightforward conversations, steady support, and tools they can use at home.
What Chelsea works with
Everything Chelsea lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Chelsea helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Chelsea lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Chelsea’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Chelsea blends attachment-based work, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques in her online practice. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and communication; it helps when relationship patterns cause stress or parenting challenges. Client-centered therapy focuses on active listening and supporting people as they find their own solutions, which can help someone feel heard and more confident about choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or change unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chelsea collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She may combine approaches and adjust over time based on what’s helping and what isn’t.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deep discussion. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in more frequently or use brief exchanges between sessions. These formats help people access therapy while juggling parenting, work, and other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Chelsea
What concerns does Chelsea commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, ADHD, addictions, eating and body image issues, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related difficulties.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Chelsea uses a practical, collaborative style that combines attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral strategies to build skills and change unhelpful patterns.
What is her professional background?
She has ten years of experience in the mental health field, including work at an eating disorders center and on an inpatient psychiatry unit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What credentials and location are listed for Chelsea?
Chelsea holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) practicing in Maryland.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are costs and billing handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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