Chelsea Luebbert, MD, LCSW-C
Somatic-informed social worker focused on practical change
About Chelsea
Chelsea Luebbert is a licensed social worker and medical doctor who brings a decade of clinical experience to her practice. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. Chelsea uses clear, practical steps to help clients make sense of difficult feelings and daily struggles.
She trained at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, earning a Master of Social Work in 2016, and has worked across settings including a center focused on eating disorders and an inpatient psychiatry unit.
Background and approach
That background means she is comfortable working with eating concerns, addictions, bipolar disorder, and complex mental health presentations. Chelsea blends body-focused work with relational and skills-based approaches. She draws on Somatic methods to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive and behavioral strategies are part of her toolbox for changing unhelpful thoughts and habits. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Chelsea aims to make therapy feel manageable, breaking goals into small steps. She supports people who are navigating intimacy questions, parenting strain, career stress, or questions about identity and sexuality. Chelsea practices in Maryland and works in English.
Her clinical style is warm, straightforward, and tuned to everyday life demands. She encourages people to try different approaches until they find what fits best.
Approaches that meet the body and the story
Somatic work focuses on the body’s signals and how sensations relate to stress and trauma. It helps people notice physical patterns like tension, shallow breathing, or tightness and learn gentle ways to release or regulate those sensations.Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and ongoing relationships shape expectations and reactions. It helps people understand repeating patterns in relationships and try new ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying.
Client-centered therapy places the person’s experience at the center of care. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person set their own goals, moving at a pace that feels manageable.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Chelsea will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to use based on needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing body-focused practices, relationship exploration, and practical skills over time.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or medical routines and to continue care even when life gets in the way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English