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We provide therapy for individuals, couples, and families, including trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming care.

With over 30 years of experience, Inner-Evolution draws from a blend of eastern wisdom and western science to compassionately guide individuals, families, and groups toward their highest potential. Our mission is to help our clients activate the inner resources and guidance needed to remove obstacles and create pathways to more joyful living using a holistic approach that honors the connection between mind and body.

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The care and support you need to reach your goals.

We provide therapy to individuals, couples and families. 

Adults & Young Adults

Individual therapy for anxiety, trauma, life transitions, identity, and relationship issues. 

Children, Teens & Parenting Support

Therapy for children and teens, with parenting support and neurodiversity-affirming care. 

Relationship Therapy & Family Transitions

Support for couples, pregnancy/postpartum, and major family transitions. 

Classes and Community

DBT Skills & Emotional Resilience

Creative & Relational Growth

Training

Consulting

Meet Our Team

Martha Boenau she/her

Martha Boenau she/her

Specialties

  • Compassionate grief counseling and support through loss, endings, life transitions, and meaningful change.
  • Specializes in adjustment challenges, emotional overwhelm, identity shifts, and navigating uncertainty.
  • Creates space for meaning-making, resilience-building, and finding your way forward.

As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, I understand the courage it can take for clients who are taking the first step in the counseling process.
Hali Watson she/her

Hali Watson she/her

Specialties

Children, Teens & Parenting Support
Adults & Young Adults
  • Art therapy and trauma-focused care for children, teens, and young adults healing from difficult experiences.
  • Specializes in complex trauma, anxiety, grief, life transitions, and identity development
  • Neurodivergence-affirming therapy for individuals navigating mood, attention, anxiety, and emotional regulation

Hello, I'm Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and Registered Art Therapist-Provisional (ATR-P) in the state of Maryland.
Catherine Pettit Easter she/her

Catherine Pettit Easter she/her

Specialties

  • Couples therapy using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Method to strengthen communication, intimacy, and trust.
  • Supports adults through major life transitions including career changes, relationship shifts, parenting, and identity evolution.
  • Integrates EMDR, DBT, CBT, and mindfulness for trauma healing, anxiety, and emotional resilience

Hello! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) in Maryland who supports adults and couples navigating life's transitions related to career, relationships, parenting, retirement, or rediscovering purpose.
Aleyna Fitz she/her

Aleyna Fitz she/her

Specialties

Children, Teens & Parenting Support
  • Specializes in helping children and teens navigate school stress, anxiety, self-esteem, and emotional regulation.
  • Play-based and talk therapy approaches that help young people explore feelings, build coping skills, and discover their strengths
  • Affirming support for neurodivergent youth managing anxiety, mood, attention, and big emotions

Hi! My name is Aleyna Fitz, and I am a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) and Certified School Counselor in the state of Maryland.
Kristen "Kitty" Hovatter, she/her

Kristen "Kitty" Hovatter, she/her

Specialties

  • Parenting support for caregivers of neurodivergent children and teens, including school advocacy and IEP/504 navigation.
  • Family systems therapy focused on boundaries, communication, nervous system awareness, and fostering autonomy.
  • Helps people recovering from controlling or shame-based environments cultivate authentic connections, set boundaries, and relate from trust rather than fear.
  • Affirming care for LGBTQ+, marginalized communities seeking healing and growth.

Hi, I'm Kristen “Kitty” Hovatter, a Licensed Graduate Marriage and Family Therapist. I believe the best therapy is about seeing the whole person—and the whole family—in a connected, compassionate way.
Tiff Majette she/her

Tiff Majette she/her

Specialties

  • Systems-oriented couples therapy focused on communication patterns, emotional connection, and conflict transformation.
  • Neurodivergence-affirming support for couples navigating different processing styles, sensory needs, and relationship dynamics.
  • Supports families healing generational patterns, navigating parenting challenges, and building secure attachment.
  • Celebrates and affirms queer, trans, neurodivergent, and marginalized identities while addressing systemic and relational harm.

In the therapeutic space, I use a holistic and collaborative approach to provide a warm, safe, and welcoming environment for clients seeking change, growth, and wellness.
Andrea Boyd (she/her)

Andrea Boyd (she/her)

Specialties

  • Trauma-informed therapy for teens and young adults using EMDR, somatic practices, and parts work (IFS)
  • Supports individuals navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-worth, identity development, and life transitions.
  • Specializes in affirming care for queer, trans, neurodivergent, and marginalized folks navigating identity, belonging, and resilience.

Hello! I am a psychotherapist specializing in working with teens and young adults. I use an integrative trauma informed and attachment based approach to help young people develop positive self identity, cope with hard times, form healthy, and heal from past traumas and negative beliefs.
Megan McMurdy she/her

Megan McMurdy she/her

Specialties

  • Creative and expressive arts therapy combined with evidence-based approaches for children, teens, and young adults.
  • Specializes in trauma recovery, anxiety, mood challenges, and identity development through artistic expression and narrative work.
  • Neurodivergence-affirming support integrating creative modalities, skills-building, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care.
  • Welcoming, equity-minded space for queer, trans, neurodivergent, and marginalized people to heal and flourish.

As a trauma informed therapist, I have witnessed the power of art therapy to assist my clients in deepening their path to healing.
Julie Hanson,she/her

Julie Hanson,she/her

Specialties

Trauma, anxiety, teens, DBT, Brainspotting, etc.

Julie Hanson is a licensed therapist, yoga teacher, and the owner of Inner-Evolution Holistic Psychotherapy and Coaching.

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“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
― Brene Brown