Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor
Hi all, I’m Paris Franklin and I’m a licensed graduate professional counselor here at the Gaithersburg office. I’m specializing in working with kids, teens, and adults, as well as couples and families. My goal is to provide a space where you can feel safe exploring your story and drawing on my narrative approach to therapy, we’ll find what matters to you.
We will build a skill tree of strengths and areas of growth and tackle them together while exploring your values, emotions, and the parts of the self we often neglect. We’ll develop coping skills as game mechanics to life, one spell slot at a time.
“Shall we be brave, shall we do it scared?” is my favorite phrase to use in life, and it encompasses my approach to counseling. We shall be brave, but bravery is not an absence of fear, it is engaging and acknowledging the fear while respecting and knowing our limits and testing them. I can’t wait to get to know you!