Clarissa Adams

About Clarissa

Clarissa Adams is a Licensed Professional Counselor who earned her Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from McDaniel College. She works with children through older adults on anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, personality disorders, and schizophrenia. She is trained in EMDR, and her broader approach blends CBT, narrative therapy, DBT, and solution-focused techniques, individualized to each client's goals. She likes to ask clients where they want to be in a year, then map smaller milestones building toward that vision.

Before becoming a therapist, Clarissa spent eight years as a special education teacher supporting students with emotional disabilities, autism, and learning disabilities, and their families. She has also worked in correctional mental health, with particular focus on families of incarcerated individuals and maternal health. Originally from Carroll County, Maryland, she loves the beach, reads psychological thrillers, and considers laughter the best medicine. She and her two kids share the house with a beagle named Piper, and she is happily obsessed with cereal.