• Emily Cook Therapy launched in 2014. What started as just Emily quickly grew into a group practice, as she dedicated herself to supporting both couples and other therapists. This seed of care sprouted into a group of four wonderful therapists sharing one tiny office, excited to bring safety and nurture to more of Bethesda. From the start, every therapist invited to the team has shared our commitment to excellence in care and our focus on relationships as the cornerstone of mental health.

  • Within one year, we moved to our own suite of three offices and our team expanded and contracted as therapists joined, flourished, and either stayed or went on to open their own practices.

    Along the way, it has been our honor to accompany our clients as they formed new relationships, got married, had and raised children, cared for aging parents, divorced, and set new directions in life. We have cherished every therapist who has joined us along the way, each bringing their own unique experience, expertise, and personality and helping both clients and their fellow therapists grow.

    With our mission to support families and our community at many stages of life in many ways, our team and our ideas continued to expand in scope. We built greater capacity to support even more adolescents, new parents and newlyweds, couples in transition, adult families reconnecting, and more. During this time, Emily literally wrote the book on building strong and lasting relationships! After fiver years, we outgrew our suite and moved across the street to create another safe and comfortable space for both clients and ourselves to flourish. And still we wanted to offer you more!

  • We moved into our new offices in May 2020 — right as the world had shut down and in person therapy transitioned to virtual sessions. Providing virtual therapy offers wider and more convenient access to care, and we relaunched as Capital Crescent Collective in 2023 with the vision of providing even deeper holistic support to families throughout Maryland, Virginia, and DC.

    We know that your mental health and relationships are connected to your body and your identity. Because of this, we now offer support in exploring your neurotype and have connected with a team of affiliate wellness providers, including prescribers, integrative medicine practitioners, massage therapists, and coaches so that more of your family’s needs can be met in a space you can trust.

    We are excited to continue to grow from here, always committed to our vision of hearing your needs and striving to meet them.

Hi there!

This is Emily, the owner and founder of Emily Cook Therapy and Capital Crescent Collective. When I launched this private practice in 2014, I was a new mom, a recent PhD graduate, and excited to ‘hang my own shingle’ as the phrase goes. But I didn’t stay in solo practice for long — quickly, we grew in both number of therapists and reputation. We moved locations three times, expanding from one office in a shared suite to our own suite with three offices to our current suite with five offices overlooking the Capital Crescent Trail. We’re a group of eight therapists, counselors, and coaches now! And we’re proud of our diverse backgrounds: we are local and international, women and men, partnered and single (and divorced and remarried), newlyweds and parents, introverts and extroverts…

This story of growth and diversity is part of the catalyst into our new name — Capital Crescent Collective. We look to a practice future focused more intentionally on the intersections of health and wellness, diversity and inclusion, and access to quality care. We seek to expand:

  • our services beyond therapy and counseling to group offerings, education, coaching, consulting, and wellness
  • our diversity of professionals beyond licensed therapists to local experts, life and career coaches, wellness consultants, and yoga teachers
  • our reach into the community beyond the therapy room from walking and talking on the Capital Crescent Trail, to new partnerships with local complimentary health practitioners, and increased accessibility for people with neurodivergence

Feel free to contact me for more information about these changes and our growth. You can email me directly at emily@capitalcrescentcollective.com. We’re here to take good care of you — all of you.

Warmly, Emily