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About Dr. Lynn Friedman, Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Work-life Coach

Address: 5480 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
Email: drlynnfriedman@comcast.net
Make an appointment with Dr. Lynn Friedman
Phone: (301) 656-9650
Lynn Friedman, Ph.D.

Dr. Lynn Friedman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, a psychoanalyst and a work-life/organizational consultant, who practices in Chevy Chase (Friendship Heights), Maryland. She is on the associate faculty in the graduate division of Business & Management in Organizational Development-Human Resources Program at Johns Hopkins University.

In her clinical practice, she provides psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She works with individuals with a range of difficulties, including:

  • anxiety
  • depression
  • relationship difficulties, such as problems with intimacy and commitment
  • self-esteem problems
  • conflicts about success
  • difficulties with self-assertion
  • family conflicts
  • difficulties with attachment
  • uncertainty about work and life goals

    She is particularly interested in how these struggles manifest themselves in the workplace. Also, she provides psychotherapy to middle schoolers and adolescents, and their families. An experienced clinician, she provides ongoing consultation and supervision to therapists and career counselors.

    Beyond this, she provides work-life and organizational consultation. She helps individuals to identify and pursue their life's work. Also, individuals frequently consult her around salary negotiation, professional development and dealing with difficult people. She conducts ongoing work/life professional development groups.

    She provides organizational consultation on change management, morale issues and an array or organizational challenges. As an organizational consultant, she has special expertise in working with independent schools. She works with heads of schools, administrators and faculty to help them to help strengthen school communities. Increasingly, she is being consulted by a broader array of profit and non-profit organizations around establishing healthy work place environments.

    She serves as a Resident Work-life, expert for Washingtonjobs.com, the Washington Post interactive. She served as a work-life, columnist for Washingtonjobs.com, the print magazine, DC Web Women and the Maryland Counseling and Development Association.

    From 1988-1999, she maintained a private practice in Pennsylvania. Also, for nearly nine years (1989-1997), she served as an ongoing, weekly, systems consultant to Shady Side Academy, in Pennsylvania. In the teaching arena, at Carnegie Mellon University,from 1986-1999, she taught within the psychology department. Also, she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Policy, Planning & Evaluation, within the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. In these roles, she taught courses in: clinical intervention, psychopathology, program evaluation and program evaluation for educational leaders as well as a summer clinical psychology research internship course, geared toward helping students to identify and pursue their worklife goals. She has developed and implemented a community-oriented, undergraduate clinical internship program.

    Dr. Friedman's historical and current affiliations
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    Dr. Lynn Friedman works with professionals and professionals-in-the-making to help them to achieve their work-life goals.
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  • If you'd like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Lynn Friedman, feel free to give her a call at: 301-656-9650
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  • For your questions about relationships, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, check out Dr. Lynn Friedman's new website, The Washington Psychoanalyst.
  • Lynn Friedman, Ph.D. 5480 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 (301)656-9650



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