About Us

Welcome to Families First Counseling and Psychiatry (FFCP). We are an outpatient mental health clinic (OMHC) providing behavioral health services for children, adolescents, and adults in Maryland. We believe in providing the highest quality of services by using multicultural evidence-based treatment and creating an inclusive environment that nurtures and celebrates individuality. We maintain a highly dedicated and skilled group of clinicians by investing in their professional growth and development through ongoing training, supervision, and growth opportunities.

Our in-home and community-based psychotherapy services allow for a therapist to meet with clients in their homes, schools, or our offices. We have an internal trauma informed treatment training program that allows our clinicians to have additional training and supervision in working with individuals with trauma histories.

FFCP has developed and maintained a well-respected Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program that offers both individual therapy sessions and group skills-based training.

Our psychiatric services include psychiatric diagnostic assessment and medication management services. These services are open to clients receiving psychotherapy from other providers. In addition FFCP is offering assessment and certification for medical cannabis and also treatment with Ketamine for indicated conditions.

Vision Statement

To be the leading provider of accessible, high-quality mental health services in the State of Maryland.

Mission

To provide inclusive mental health services for clients with unique needs.

Core Values

In order to best serve our clients and remain true to our employees, FFCP embraces the following core values:

1. We Celebrate Diversity – We believe in respecting the rights, differences, and dignity of others and care how we treat each other each day – this is the employee to employee, employee to client, employee to client’s families, employee to stakeholders.
2. We Believe in Recovery – We know everyone can achieve a high quality, self-directed, satisfying life integrated in the community.
3. We Give Quality – Our job is to exceed customer expectations by providing safe, effective and evidence-based behavioral health care that can be defined, measured and published.
4. We Partner Community – We actively partner with local and regional organizations and service agencies to effectively meet the needs of the community and to increase the public’s awareness of mental health issues, mental health treatment and access to treatment.