Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
How Fanita works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- MD, LSCSW
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Fanita
Fanita Jackson-Norman is a Maryland-based clinician with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and relationship strain. She guides clients through life changes, career challenges, and struggles with intimacy and self-esteem. Fanita uses straightforward, compassionate communication to help people find practical ways forward.
Her sessions focus on understanding the patterns that keep problems repeating. She listens for how past experiences affect present choices and helps people try new behaviors.
Background and approach
That might mean practicing calm responses to anger, improving communication, or exploring values to find direction in work or relationships. Fanita combines a medical perspective with social work practice to offer a broad view of health and behavior. She pays attention to cultural background and personal history when shaping goals and steps for change.
This helps people feel seen and supported while working toward clearer next steps. People come to her for help with family tensions, forgiveness, guilt, or recovering from trauma and abuse. She also coaches clients dealing with caregiver stress, blended family issues, and problems around commitment and trust.
Sessions are practical and focused on small, achievable changes. Her style blends direct feedback with encouragement. Fanita helps clients break big problems into manageable parts and track progress over time.
She aims to make therapy useful from the first session onward.
What Fanita works with
Everything Fanita lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Fanita's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches that help with anger and relationship patterns
Fanita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at changing unhelpful behaviors and improving emotional regulation. One approach focuses on identifying triggers and learning concrete skills to respond differently to anger. This helps people pause, name what they feel, and choose calmer actions in stressful moments.Another approach emphasizes improving communication and relationship patterns. It teaches practical ways to express needs, set boundaries, and repair connection after conflicts. This method is useful for people wanting clearer conversations and fewer repeated arguments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to goals, and try techniques that match the client’s needs and preferences. Adjustments are made over time so the work feels relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video suits a full therapy session with visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or when a written conversation feels easier. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Fanita
What concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, anger, relationships, intimacy, career changes, family problems, trauma and self-esteem issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Sessions are direct and practical, with a focus on understanding patterns and trying new behaviors to improve day-to-day functioning.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with people facing transitions, relationship strain, and other life challenges.
What credentials and where is she located?
She holds an MD and is an LSCSW. Her practice is based in Maryland.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How do fees and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.