01/22/2026
This is a major loss for the DC area community. The chaos which follows the sudden closure of a psychotherapy practice highlights the vulnerability that the public faces when therapists do not have a clear practice emergency plan in place. Professional Wills protect patients. Therapists need to know about this ethical obligation and how to plan for the what ifs.
Dozens of clinicians and their patients are scrambling after the abrupt closure last week of The Chesapeake Center, a nationally known Bethesda-based practice specializing in ADHD with multiple locations in the region and Florida.