Sachi Kanzaki, LGPC

Helping Individuals and Couples Heal From Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Challenges So They Can Reconnect With Themselves and Each Other

At MATR Counseling, Sachi provides trauma-informed therapy and serves individuals and couples throughout Anne Arundel County and the surrounding Baltimore region.

Sachi is deeply passionate about helping individuals and couples navigate emotional pain with compassion, steadiness, and respect. She believes healing begins in a safe space where people feel truly seen, heard, and understood. Her goal is to help clients untangle the impact of past experiences, develop healthier patterns, and move toward lives and relationships that feel grounded, authentic, and emotionally balanced.

You may be experiencing anxiety that feels constant and exhausting. You may have endured emotionally harmful or confusing relationships that left you questioning your own feelings or perceptions. Perhaps you and your partner feel stuck in repeating patterns of conflict, miscommunication, or emotional distance. Many couples find themselves wanting to reconnect but unsure how to move forward.

Whatever brings you to therapy, you do not have to face it alone. Meaningful healing and growth are possible.

A Culturally Attuned Approach

As a therapist with Japanese heritage, Sachi understands how culture, family systems, and intergenerational values influence identity, communication, and emotional expression. Many individuals grow up in environments where emotional needs are minimized or where difficult conversations are discouraged, which can make it challenging to recognize and express personal struggles.

Sachi creates a therapeutic environment where both individual identity and cultural context are respected and honored. She recognizes the complex ways family expectations, generational patterns, and cultural identity shape how individuals experience stress, relationships, and emotional well-being.

Her work is particularly mindful of the ways intergenerational trauma, family obligation, identity development, and bicultural experiences influence relationships and personal growth. Through a culturally responsive and trauma-informed approach, Sachi helps clients explore both personal experiences and broader systemic influences that may affect their emotional health and sense of self.

Counseling for Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Challenges

Sachi works with adults who may be struggling with trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, depression, or difficult relationship patterns. Many individuals who seek therapy with Sachi are navigating the lingering effects of emotionally harmful relationships, narcissistic abuse, or long-standing self-doubt that developed through painful experiences earlier in life.

Therapy with Sachi is collaborative and grounded in trust and mutual respect. She integrates trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches while adapting her work to meet the unique needs of each client. No two healing journeys are the same, and treatment is always tailored to support the individual sitting in the room.

Her work focuses on helping clients develop emotional regulation, reconnect with their internal voice, establish healthier boundaries, strengthen self-trust, and build relationships that feel safe, respectful, and fulfilling.

Marriage and Couples Counseling

Sachi is also an excellent marriage and couples counselor who helps partners navigate conflict, rebuild trust, and strengthen emotional connection. Many couples seek therapy when communication begins to break down, arguments become repetitive, or emotional distance begins to grow.

Couples counseling provides a space where both partners can slow down, feel heard, and begin to understand the deeper patterns influencing their relationship. Sachi works with couples to identify the underlying dynamics that contribute to conflict and helps them develop healthier ways of communicating, expressing needs, and supporting one another.

Her approach helps couples move away from blame and defensiveness and toward understanding, accountability, and collaboration. Through this process, partners can rebuild emotional safety and rediscover the connection that originally brought them together.

Trauma-Focused and Evidence-Based Care

Sachi integrates trauma-focused therapeutic approaches that support both emotional processing and present-day resilience. Trauma can affect the nervous system, relationships, and the beliefs individuals carry about themselves and others.

Healing requires both safety and structure. Through therapy, clients learn how past experiences may still influence present thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while developing tools that support healthier responses and emotional balance.

Many individuals developed survival strategies that once helped them cope with overwhelming situations. Therapy offers the opportunity to understand those patterns while building new ways of relating to themselves and others.

You adapted to survive. Therapy helps you learn how to thrive.

EMDR Therapy and Intensives

Sachi offers EMDR therapy as a powerful, evidence-based approach for processing trauma and reducing the emotional intensity of distressing experiences. EMDR helps the brain complete the natural healing process, allowing clients to move forward with greater clarity and stability.

For clients seeking a more focused and accelerated approach, EMDR intensives are also available. These extended sessions provide dedicated time to process trauma more deeply, often leading to meaningful shifts in a shorter period of time.

This allows clients to move beyond feeling stuck and begin experiencing real, lasting change.

Learn more about EMDR Intensives

Faith-Integrated Counseling 

For clients who wish to incorporate faith or spirituality into the counseling process, Sachi welcomes these conversations with care and respect. Spiritual beliefs can be an important source of resilience and meaning, and therapy can create space to explore how faith and emotional healing intersect.

Faith integration is always optional and guided by each client’s personal beliefs and comfort level.

Why Work With Sachi

Clients often describe Sachi as calm, thoughtful, and deeply attentive. She provides a grounded and nonjudgmental space where individuals and couples can slow down, reflect, and process their experiences at a pace that feels safe and supportive.

Her philosophy of therapy is rooted in the belief that healing is not about changing who you are, but about uncovering the strength, clarity, and resilience that already exist within you.

Through compassionate exploration and intentional work, therapy can help individuals and couples reconnect with themselves, strengthen their relationships, and begin creating lives that feel more aligned with their values and goals.

Therapy in Rockville, Maryland

Sachi Kanzaki provides counseling services at MATR Counseling's satellite office at First Baptist Church of Rockville, Maryland, supporting individuals throughout Montgomery County and the surrounding areas, including Howard County, Frederick County, and the Washington, D.C. suburbs. She also offers secure online therapy sessions for clients across Maryland, providing accessible care for those who prefer the convenience and privacy of telehealth.

Begin Your Healing Journey

Sachi offers in-person counseling sessions in Rockville, Maryland and provides secure telehealth therapy for individuals and couples throughout the state of Maryland.

If you are ready to explore your experiences with compassion, curiosity, and courage, Sachi would be honored to walk alongside you in the healing process.

To schedule a consultation and learn how Sachi can support your journey toward emotional balance, healthier relationships, and personal growth, contact MATR Counseling at 443-837-5119.