Torri Mills-Raikes, MD, LCSW-C

Torri Mills-Raikes is a Maryland-licensed mental health professional with 20 years of experience supporting adults through difficult life seasons. She holds an MD, indicating a medical degree, and an LCSW-C, which reflects a clinical social work license allowing her to provide psychotherapy. Drawing on a range of therapeutic methods, she guides people facing stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, depression, and transitions that accompany life changes.

Her practice emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can express thoughts and emotions honestly. Torri collaborates with each person to identify practical strategies and meaningful goals, using client-centered care alongside evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused work, and trauma-focused interventions. She also addresses issues related to abandonment and attachment, communication and control struggles, separation and divorce, guilt and shame, impulsivity, loneliness, life purpose and midlife questions, mood and panic disorders, post-traumatic stress, and cultivating self-love.

Torri frames therapy as a courageous step toward a more satisfying and balanced life, and she offers steady professional support throughout that process. Her approach aims to balance empathy with practical tools so clients can build resilience and move toward clearer priorities and improved functioning.