ABOUT PETER
More than three decades of experience helping teens, adults, couples, and families find steadier ground.
strength based and customized approach, clinical supervision, and adjunct professor Howard university school of social work
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker — Clinical (LCSW-C) and Maryland board-approved clinical supervisor with more than 30 years of experience in mental health, child welfare, and family systems. I’m also an Adjunct Faculty Professor at the Howard University School of Social Work, where I help train the next generation of clinicians, and a published contributor on NTU psychotherapy, an Afrocentric therapeutic approach, including its application to therapeutic foster care and complex family systems.
I specialize in teens and families — working with adolescents experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, school difficulties, emotional regulation, and concerns related to screen and social-media use, along with the parents and families around them. I have particular experience supporting treatment-resistant youth and teens entering therapy for the first time.
I also bring depth to adoption, foster care, and attachment work, supporting children and teens through reactive attachment disorder, trauma, identity exploration, and blended-family adjustment — working with families from adoption readiness through the adolescent years.
Wondering if I am the right fit? Reach out for a brief consultation — or call (301) 518-1659.
As a culturally responsive clinician, I’m attentive to how culture, identity, and lived experience shape mental health and relationships, including the ways cultural tension can contribute to conflict that a young person finds difficult to express. My approach is solution-focused, insight-oriented, and strengths-based, integrating CBT, exposure therapy, and a mind-body-spirit perspective, with in-home and out-of-office support for anxiety, compulsions, and body-focused repetitive behaviors when appropriate.
Each treatment plan is developed individually rather than from a standard template. I work closely with families, schools, and other providers to keep care coordinated and consistent, and I bring a warm, patient, and respectful manner that helps clients feel heard and supported.
“You are the expert of your own story. My role is to walk alongside you as you restore balance and build the confidence to sustain it.”
— PETER FITTS, LCSW-C
LCSW-C and a Maryland Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor.
Adjunct Faculty Professor at the Howard University School of Social Work.
Published contributor on NTU Psychotherapy, an Afrocentric therapeutic model.
