About Loriann

Loriann Hoff Oberlin, MS, LCPC is a licensed clinical professional counselor with a private practice in Montgomery County, Maryland. She’s also the author of nine non-fiction books — from health, relationships, parenting, social and psychological issues to writing and working from home. This breadth of material speaks to Ms. Oberlin’s diverse interests and life experience.

Having earned her bachelor’s in liberal arts from Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, Ms. Oberlin lived and worked in Western Pennylvania before moving to Maryland in 2001. She’s married, the mother of a college and high school age sons, and has the life experience of separation, divorce, single parenthood, remarriage, and stepfamily formation. In addition, she’s taught many aspiring writers how to achieve their own publishing dreams.

With this knowledge and research base, Loriann earned her master’s degree in clinical counseling from Johns Hopkins University, and completed the post-master’s program as well. As a therapist, she’s worked in community mental health, at the second busiest hospital emergency department in Maryland, and in a group practice before establishing her own counseling practice. Loriann has completed the 40-hr divorce mediation and child access training, to help parents mediate disputes in order to be effective co-parents finding workable arrangements.

She has participated in these continuing education opportunities:

• relational aggression in girls/social networking
• group psychotherapy for adults and adolescents
• surviving infidelity and affairs
• executive functioning & the disorganized child
• anger management and personality traits
• the voice of the child in high-conflict divorce
• marriage, divorce, stepfamilies, and family systems theory
• supervision in family systems and expressive therapies
• divorce mediation and child access/custody training
• research symposium on Alzheimer's and caregiving
• play therapy for children & teen social scene & Internet usage
• working with families through psycho-education & CBT

In both her publishing and counseling work, she takes a keen interest in helping families whose children have ADHD or learning disabilities, helping parents to work with children to develop strategies for success, and guiding family members to understand one another healing disputes and fostering improved relationships.

Ms. Oberlin works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. She also leads and co-leads various groups, including those for divorce support, social skills, parenting, and journaling for self-expression.

With her training, Ms. Oberlin can help families reach solutions to their problems collaboratively using family mediation -- addressing matters such as aging parents or how to handle rifts that strain family relationships and businesses.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and Bowen family systems theory guides much of her work as does a creative base of thinking outside the box and trying new approaches to reach solutions. Ms. Oberlin is also a member of the American Counseling Association and the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW).

Ms. Oberlin’s latest books include Overcoming Passive-Aggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career and Happiness, Surviving Separation & Divorce, and The Angry Child. She also wrote and taught online content from Writing for Quick Cash: Turn Your Way With Words Into Real Money.

Loriann has spoken at many community gatherings, including cluster PTA meetings within Montgomery County, Maryland, at the National Association of Working Mothers, school counseling events, and bookstores, greeting teachers, school personnel and parents.

She has spoken to employees about passive-aggression and dealing with difficult family over the holidays in 2009 and 2010. If you would like her to speak or appear at your event, please contact her through this website.

Ms. Oberlin has also been the guest on Washington Post radio and other programs. NBC 4 chose her Washington Parent feature for Sept. television coverage, and she's been interviewed by reporters writing for Psychology Today, US Weekly, Woman's World, and many other publications.

Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC (LC2762)

Located at 8706 Commerce Drive in Suite #2, Easton, this office is open for appointments Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings, and Monday mornings. 

From Route 50, take the Easton Parkway (MD 322) to Glebe Road.  Commerce Drive sits between the Coldwell Banker Real Estate office and 8706 office building.  Pull into the parking lot, enter Suite #2, and wait in the reception area for your appointment.

Located at 11908-C Darnestown Road, this office sits across from Rachel Carson Elementary School in the Kentlands in Quince Orchard Medical Park.  Loriann sees clients on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in this location.

Darnestown Road, known as Route 28, is a divided highway, and if you’re coming from Rockville, you’ll need to make a left U-turn at Tschiffely Square Road.  There is a Ride On bus stop here (56/76) one block from the office.  11908 is just past the church and vet hospital.  Please enter Suite C and wait in the reception area.

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