Individualized Trauma & EMDR Therapy
Individualized Trauma & EMDR Therapy
Individual therapy for adults and adolescents navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges in relationships.
Thoughtful, collaborative treatment informed by EMDR, attachment, somatic, cognitive, and parts-oriented approaches—tailored to your history, needs, and goals.
EMDRIA Certified Therapist · TF-CBT Certified · Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I.

At Cordillera Counseling Services, we believe people have an innate capacity for growth, healing, and meaningful change when the conditions around them support it.
Many of the patterns that create difficulty today began as ways of coping, protecting ourselves, or maintaining connection through challenging circumstances. I approach these responses with curiosity and respect rather than seeing them as flaws to eliminate.
Meaningful change develops through collaboration, understanding, and choice. My role is to offer perspective, support, and thoughtful challenge while respecting your autonomy and pace.

Cordillera Counseling Services specializes in
working with adults and adolescents experiencing trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD, relational trauma and attachment difficulties, anxiety, depression, and grief and loss.
I also offer EMDR therapy, thoughtfully integrated into treatment when appropriate for your needs and goals.

I work integratively, drawing from trauma-focused, relational, cognitive, body-based, and parts-oriented approaches depending on what you need and what is actually helping.
You do not need to know which therapy model is right for you before we begin. We figure that out together and adjust the work as we go.

I’m Tahmineh Shadkhoo, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, therapist, and the Founder of Cordillera Counseling Services. I specialize in trauma and traumatic stress, attachment and relationship concerns, anxiety, depression, and grief and loss.
I bring extensive trauma-specific training to my work, along with lived experience that has shaped how I understand adaptation, resilience, culture, loss, and change. My style is collaborative, thoughtful, direct when it needs to be, and grounded in curiosity, humor, and cultural humility.
Therapy can be serious work without feeling serious every minute. I want the work to feel human. I pay attention to how therapy is landing for you, and I believe the approach should fit the person rather than asking the person to fit the approach.
The name Cordillera comes from the Spanish word for a system of mountain ranges. The name was chosen because mountains have long represented grounding, perspective, endurance, and steadiness. They remind us that difficult terrain can be navigated, that rest is part of the journey, and that we do not always need to see the entire path in order to take the next step.
That symbolism reflects how we think about healing. People have an innate capacity for growth and change when the conditions around them support it. Therapy is not about forcing a climb or pushing toward some predetermined summit. Sometimes the work is about moving forward. Sometimes it is about slowing down, finding firmer ground, understanding what has shaped the path so far, or discovering another way through.
At Cordillera Counseling Services, we hope to offer a place where that kind of work can happen with thoughtfulness, respect, and room for the person you already are.
We are located in Columbia, Maryland, and provide both in-person and virtual therapy.
If you’re considering therapy and want to see whether we might be a good fit, you’re welcome to reach out. I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation so we can briefly talk about what you’re looking for and answer any questions you may have.