Answers for your body. Care for your mind.
Personalized psychiatric care that looks at you as a whole person.
Thoughtful psychiatric evaluations and medication management for adults and adolescents, with specialized support for women's mental health, hormonal transitions, perinatal wellness, and LGBTQ mental health.
Convenient virtual care
Serving eligible patients in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
Individualized, whole-person care
Treatment informed by your symptoms, history, goals, and relevant physical health factors.
Insurance and private-pay options
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Our Approach
SP&W is a dual mental health and medical diagnostics practice for adult and adolescent patients, led by a dual board-certified Family and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. We combine thoughtful, evidence based psychiatric medication management with a psychiatric and medical evaluation to help identify what’s really driving your symptoms—mentally and physically.
"It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
-Hippocrates
Meet Our Team
Shannon Sabanosh
Founder & CEO
Specialties: General Psychiatric Care & Perinatal Mental Health
Morgan Schauss
Nurse Practitioner
Specialties: General Psychiatric Care, LGBTQ+ Issues, Addiction
Ashley Ruud
Practice Coordinator
Our Comprehensive Services
Check out our comprehensive mental health services below. Click on the titles for a deeper dive into each service we offer.
Our psychiatric medication management services provide personalized evaluation, prescribing, and ongoing monitoring to support your mental health goals. We work closely with each client to assess symptoms, review treatment history, and create a medication plan tailored to their needs. Follow-up visits focus on tracking progress, managing side effects, and making thoughtful adjustments to promote safety, effectiveness, and overall well-being. Our goal is to provide compassionate, collaborative care that helps you feel supported every step of the way.
Our holistic assessment approach looks at mental health concerns through both psychiatric and physical health perspectives, recognizing that emotional well-being is closely connected to overall health. We take time to understand symptoms, medical history, lifestyle factors, and any underlying physical conditions that may be affecting mental health. This comprehensive view helps us develop more accurate, personalized treatment recommendations that support the whole person, not just individual symptoms.
Our women’s mental health services provide compassionate, individualized care across every stage of life. We offer specialized support for perinatal mental health, including pregnancy and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, while also addressing concerns related to hormonal changes, menstrual cycles, fertility, and perimenopause. By considering both emotional symptoms and the physical and hormonal factors that may contribute to them, we create personalized treatment plans that support overall well-being.
Our LGBTQ+ mental health services provide affirming, compassionate, and individualized care that honors each person’s identity, experiences, and unique needs. We offer support for concerns such as anxiety, depression, identity exploration, familial and other relationship challenges, and the emotional impact of stigma, discrimination, and minority stress. In a safe, inclusive, nonjudgmental space, we work collaboratively with each individual to develop personalized treatment plans that foster resilience, self-acceptance, and overall well-being.
Our addiction and substance use services help individuals better understand their relationship with alcohol and other substances while working toward meaningful, sustainable change. We offer support for substance use concerns, cravings, triggers, and the emotional or behavioral patterns that may contribute to problematic use. By exploring the underlying factors influencing substance use and recognizing each person’s unique goals and circumstances, we develop personalized treatment plans that promote recovery, strengthen coping skills, and support long-term well-being.
Conditions We Treat
We address a wide range of mental health conditions including:
ADHD
Insomnia
OCD
PTSD
Social Anxiety
PMDD
Anxiety
Women's Issues
Anhedonia
Binge Eating Disorder
Trichotillomania
Perinatal & Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders
Depression
Men's Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Panic Disorder
Alcohol use Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder
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