# Frederick County, MD

> Frederick County faces two directions at once (I-270 toward Washington, I-70 toward Baltimore) while being fully its own place, from a thriving downtown to Catoctin's mountain towns. Care from us respects all three identities.

**Source:** https://www.uniquembhs.com/unique-minds-behavioral-health-services-frederick-county-md
**Practice:** Unique Minds Behavioral Health Services, LLC. Baltimore, MD: 6810 Park Heights Ave, Suite C6, Baltimore, MD 21215 · Washington, DC: 1402 North Capitol St NW, #1, Washington, DC 20002 · Delaware, OH: 1 W Winter St, Suite 211, Delaware, OH 43015
**Phone:** (443) 538-8400

## Quick answer

Unique Minds serves Frederick County, Maryland (Frederick city, Urbana, Middletown, Brunswick, Walkersville, Thurmont and Mount Airy) with psychiatric evaluation, medication management and therapy, primarily by secure telehealth. Baltimore and Washington each sit an interstate away for in-person visits, and most major insurance plans are accepted.

Frederick County holds three counties' worth of lives under one name: a genuinely booming city
whose downtown outgrew its parking years ago; commuter belts at Urbana and along 270 whose
mornings belong to Washington; and the mountain-and-valley north: Thurmont, Emmitsburg,
Middletown, where distances stretch and services thin. A single office anywhere would shortchange
two of the three. Telehealth serves all of them at once.

## The Frederick configuration

Most care runs by secure video:
[evaluation](/psychiatry-practices/psychiatric-evaluation) first, then
[medication management](/psychiatry-practices/medication-management) and
[therapy](/therapy-services), [CBT](/therapy-services/cognitive-behavioral-therapy),
[family work](/therapy-services/family-and-couples-therapy), adolescent care, on schedules that
survive both harvest season and fourth-quarter deadlines. In-person needs pick their interstate:
Baltimore's Park Heights office off the I-70 axis, Washington's North Capitol office down 270.
Closer follow-up stands behind the weekly rhythm for the seasons that need it.

## Every address, every hour

From downtown Frederick to the Catoctin hollows, 988 answers. Call or text the Suicide &
Crisis Lifeline free and confidentially, around the clock. Immediate danger is 911's call.
For the rest, [request an appointment](/book-now) online; both metros' worth of care, no
interstate required.

## Offices serving this area

- Baltimore, MD: 6810 Park Heights Ave, Suite C6, Baltimore, MD 21215
- Washington, DC: 1402 North Capitol St NW, #1, Washington, DC 20002
- Secure telehealth across all of Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Ohio

## Communities served

- Frederick
- Urbana
- Middletown
- Brunswick
- Walkersville
- Thurmont
- Emmitsburg
- New Market
- Mount Airy

## Frequently asked questions

### Frederick has grown enormously: why no office here yet?
Honesty first: of our locations across Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Ohio, the ones a Frederick patient can actually drive to are Baltimore and Washington, and we would rather serve Frederick brilliantly by video than pretend otherwise. In practice that means evaluations, medication care and therapy from your own home in Urbana or Thurmont, with either office reachable down the interstate for the visits that benefit from a room. I-70 east or I-270 south, whichever your life already drives.
### Which office do Frederick commuters actually use?
The 270 crowd, Urbana especially, folds visits into Washington days at North Capitol Street. The I-70 side leans Baltimore. And a large share choose neither, running everything by video and discovering the commute was never a necessary part of psychiatric care. All three patterns are fully supported.
### Can you help with seasonal patterns: winters hit hard out here?
Yes. Depression with a seasonal shape is real, common at this latitude, and treatable. Light-timing strategies, therapy, medication where it earns its place, all coordinated from an evaluation that takes the pattern seriously rather than waving at the weather. Winter care by video has the additional virtue of not requiring you to drive in it.

## Related service areas

- [Carroll County](https://www.uniquembhs.com/unique-minds-behavioral-health-services-carroll-county-md)
- [Montgomery County](https://www.uniquembhs.com/unique-minds-behavioral-health-services-montgomery-county-md)
- [Hagerstown](https://www.uniquembhs.com/unique-minds-behavioral-health-services-hagerstown-md)

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This page is general health information, not medical advice. In a crisis, call or text 988 (988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) any hour, or call 911 in an emergency.