The Mindful Heart LLC

08/28/2025

…And MORE new groups coming this Fall to The Mindful Heart!! Please reach out to us if you know someone who might benefit!

08/28/2025

Exciting new groups coming this Fall to The Mindful Heart!! Please reach out to us if you know someone who might benefit!

07/25/2025

We are excited to be offering this new group in our Bethesda office this Fall!
Feel free to reach out with any questions!

06/24/2025

Excited for this new group offering this summer! ☀️ 🎶 🎸
Feel free to reach out with any questions!

06/10/2025

We are GROWING!!

We are excited to welcome Aliza Reinstein, LMSW and Toby Singer, LMSW to The Mindful Heart Family!!!

Aliza is committed to empowering individuals and families through compassionate, evidence-based care. With a strong foundation in both clinical practice and research, she is passionate about supporting diverse populations and advocating for mental health awareness, neurodiversity, and social inclusion. She specializes in supporting children, adolescents, and young adults navigating neurodivergence and social-emotional challenges.

Aliza’a clinical approach is integrative and draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Play Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Art Therapy, and Strength-Based modalities. By incorporating a variety of evidence-based practices, she aims to create a dynamic and individualized therapeutic experience that supports long-term growth and emotional well-being.

As a client-centered clinician, she is committed to meeting individuals where they are and working collaboratively with the key systems in their lives, including families, school, and community supports. She is dedicated to supporting clients through all stages of development and change, while recognizing the many factors that influence mental health. Her goal is to build positive, trusting therapeutic relationships that serve as a strong foundation for meaningful progress. She is passionate about tailoring care to honor each client’s unique strengths, needs, and goals. She strives to create a supportive and affirming environment where clients feel safe, heard, and empowered. Resilience is cultivated in environments where self-expression and authenticity are welcomed and accepted. Through this lens, Aliza support clients in exploring challenges, developing coping strategies, and building confidence.

Specialties: Anxiety, ADHD, Autism, Behavioral Issues, Neurodivergence, Stress, Self-Esteem, School Issues, Education and Learning Disabilities, Peer Relationships, Social Skills, Family Conflict, Developmental Disorders, Selective Mutism, Play Therapy

**Aliza is currently accepting new clients. She has availability Monday-Friday in our Olney and Bethesda offices**

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As a psychotherapist and working musician, Toby loves to support the emotional health of artists, creatives, misfits, entrepreneurs, founders, and people with hidden creative identities subsumed by modern life. Together, Toby explores clients’ dreams and hopes, their messy, rude, and uncivilized parts, and the ways in which we all deny ourselves the truest embodiments of ourselves. He loves working with folks of all gender identities, but is particularly interested in supporting the healthy emotional functioning of men, throughout life.

Within a radically affirming environment, Toby seeks to help clients challenge the ways they are held back from living a full and rich life. Toby is a highly relational and eclectic therapist, drawing from a wide range of modalities and theories, including psychodynamic theory, CBT, DBT, somatics, mindfulness, the humanist traditions, visualization, coaching, and AEDP. He takes a holistic approach to help you examine unhealthy patterns, heal attachment trauma, and find clarity.

Sit across from Toby, and he promises to see you, laugh with you, make space for the unspeakable, help you slow down, and support you on your own, unique, healing journey.

Specialties: Anxiety, mood disorders, depression, “stuckness”, emotional dysregulation, career stress & burnout, executive functioning, ADHD, relationship difficulties

**Toby is fully remote and is currently accepting new clients. He has availability Monday-Friday for clients based in Maryland and New York**

03/24/2025

28.8 million Americans will have an eating disorder in their lifetime.

15% of women will suffer from an eating disorder by their 40s or 50s, but only 27% receive any treatment for it.

Men represent up to 25% of people with eating disorders. Even so, women are up to five times more likely to be diagnosed.

Eating Disorders don’t discriminate and affect people of every age, race, size, gender identity, sexual orientation and background.

Every 52 minutes, someone dies of an eating disorder. 💔

These statistics are jarring, but they are REAL.

I had the honor of attending the Breaking Bread Gala for last night and as was my experience last year, it was such an incredibly moving and empowering evening.

Getting to hear so many inspiring stories of healing, strength and recovery was nothing short of amazing.

Rock Recovery is a nonprofit focused on making life-saving outpatient eating disorder therapy and support accessible and affordable for all.

My lovely friend,
invited me to attend, as she sits on the board at Rock Recovery and has made it her mission as a board member and as the owner of to support those struggling with this awful disease and to help them find healing, hope and a genuine path forward toward freedom from disordered eating. Your work is so needed, so inspiring, so valuable, and I have nothing but admiration for the positive impact you are having on so many. 🙏

02/11/2025

His story is a powerful reminder that mental health doesn’t discriminate. Even those who seem to "have it all" may be fighting battles we don’t see. Check in on those around you. A single text, conversation, or moment of support could make all the difference. You are not alone.

“You have to take care of your brain just like you take care of your body.”

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver (and Super Bowl LIX champion!) A. J. Brown has been open about his mental health since experiencing a mental health crisis in 2020. Since then, he’s become a true advocate for seeking help and destigmatizing conversations around mental health.

Thank you for speaking up about mental health, A. J.! 💚🦅

11/14/2024

We as humans CAN do hard things.
It may feel overwhelming at times, and completely unattainable at others, but we have the capacity to persevere through even the most challenging of circumstances. It doesn’t have to be pretty or graceful, but we make it happen.
We can conquer a lot more than we give ourselves credit for.

Sometimes it’s the most difficult roads that lead us to the most beautiful and incredible destinations. Sometimes it’s the unexpected bumps in the road that give us perspective, build character and create new and unique opportunities for ourselves that we may not have known existed. Sometimes it’s these bumps that bring us out of our shell to discover something neat and learn something new about ourselves.
Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
We CAN do hard things and our courage and resilience always win.

Dedicating this post today to a strong, resilient, brave and incredible woman I know, who is currently doing the the hardest of things and taking names with her grit and courage.💗🐧

If this post speaks to you, I see you and I see your unwavering strength.

10/10/2024

Happy !

In a world where you can choose to be so many things...BE KIND!⁣

*Be kind to the person who appears to have it “all together” every second of every day; not every battle that we face is a battle one can see⁣. And often times, it’s those who we think are just “living the dream” that may be struggling the most.

*Be kind to the person who is not great at following thru with plans; mental health is not always predictable and in any 7-day period, the ratio of good days to bad days may shift and evolve.

*Be kind to the person who struggles reaching out and may isolate. When in the midst of a depressive episode for example, it can be excruciatingly painful for folks to engage or be around others. Anxiety can present in this way too!

*Be kind to the person who may appear standoffish or reserved; Anxiety can be incredibly paralyzing and this is one way it manifests.

*Be kind to the person who may appear disinterested.

*Be kind to the person who may seem disengaged. ⁣

*Be kind to the person who may be short-tempered⁣.
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Sometimes it’s just not about us!
We can be quick in our society to take things personally and to internalize the behavior of others.
A challenge for all of us is to practice “the pause” and be dialectical.
Practice taking a step back when someone’s behavior is impacting you and think about its function. And ask yourself, is this my stuff or their stuff? And while the behavior may still upset you and/or be hurtful (valid!), try to hold the other reality simultaneously that maybe they are going through something and one of the above might be true.

Bottom Line:⁣
Choose kindness because you never know the struggles that people are having, what hardships they have faced, or trauma they have endured. Do not underestimate what impact a smile, a hug, a simple compliment, a generous gesture, being a listening ear or just giving someone the benefit of the doubt can do💗⁣

07/18/2024

New support group offering coming up next month with Kelini Coker, LCPC.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions or to register!
301-960-3955
Hello@themindfulheartllc.com

www.themindfulheartllc.com

06/16/2024

Treat today in a way that suits your needs, and that can be everything from extensive celebration to observing today like any other Sunday. It’s okay for a day like today to spark emotions that differ drastically from the reels of positivity you may see scattered across social media. All emotions and feelings are welcome today and are allowed without judgement or shame. I see you and you got this💗

05/24/2024

All of these!💗