I provide confidential IFS therapy for professionals carrying a story they can't tell, online across Maryland and Virginia, with in person intensives in Baltimore.
Forced Career Exits, Signed NDAs, & Whistleblowing Therapy • Maryland & Virginia
Therapy After a Forced Career Exit, Signed NDA, or Whistleblowing in Maryland & Virginia
Where You Might Be
Four ways people arrive here
You were pushed out, restructured out, or "mutually separated," and the official story isn't the real one.
The Forced Exit
You signed an agreement, or you're deciding whether to, and now there's a part of your life you can't talk about.
The signed NDA
You reported something, or you're deciding whether to. Doing the right thing has cost more than anyone warned you it would.
The whistleblower
There's no legal agreement, but you're staying quiet anyway, to protect your reputation, your next role, or other people.
The silence without a document
- Rehearsing what you can and can't say before every conversation
- Feeling alone, even with people who love you
- Constant vigilance about what might come out, or come next
- Shame or self-doubt, even when you know you did the right thing
- Grief for a career, a team, or an identity you built for years
- Not knowing who you are professionally now
What It's Costing You
Living with two versions of the story
Keeping a public version and a private version is exhausting. You may notice:
"Don't say too much."
"You did the right thing."
"Maybe this was your fault."
"I just want my life back."
In IFS, the part of you guarding the silence isn't the enemy. It's protecting something vulnerable. We get to know it, so you can carry this without it running your life.
- The emotional fallout of being forced out or let go
- The isolation of a signed NDA or non-disparagement agreement
- Fear, anxiety, and hypervigilance during an investigation or legal process
- Grief and identity loss after leaving a role you loved
- Deciding what you want to do next, from a steadier place
- Rebuilding trust in yourself and in workplaces
What Therapy For Career Exits Helps With
What We Can Work On
Therapy focuses on what this is costing you, not on legal strategy or whether your decisions were right.
How I Work
A Confidential Place To
Say What's True
I'm Kiara Hartwell Opara, a Certified IFS Therapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. I work with leaders and professionals who are used to being composed, and who are carrying something they can't put down.
Meet Kiara, a Certified IFS Therapist for Forced Career Exits, Signed NDAs, & Whistleblowers in Maryland & Virginia
About Kiara
Sessions & Fees
Confidential Therapy For Online Across Maryland, Virginia, & Florida
IFS Intensives
Half day (3 hrs) $1,500 · Full day (6 hrs) $2,400 · Multi-day from $4,200. Each includes a 90-minute planning call and a follow-up call. Private pay. In person by request in Catonsville.
Ongoing Therapy
55 minute sessions, weekly or biweekly, for steady change over time. In network with BCBS. Online across Maryland, Virginia, & Florida.
Frequently Asked Questions
Therapy confidentiality and legal non-disclosure are two different things, and I'm not able to advise you on what your specific agreement does or doesn't allow, that's a question for your attorney. What I can tell you is that you don't need to disclose specific facts, names, or details you're not free to share for this work to be effective. We can work directly with what it's costing you to carry this, without requiring the details themselves.
Sessions are confidential, but if you have active or pending legal proceedings, I'd recommend looping in your attorney about what's appropriate to discuss and where. I'm not a substitute for that guidance.
Yes. Whether you've already reported something or are still deciding whether to, this work addresses the isolation and pressure of holding that alone.
Yes. The mechanism, carrying a true story you're not permitted or able to tell, doesn't require a legal document to be real and exhausting.
Yes. Sessions are not shared with employers, former employers, attorneys, or any third party unless it falls within the limits of confidentiality.
IFS intensives are private pay and not billed through insurance. If ongoing therapy is helpful after your intensive, I'm an in network provider with BCBS for eligible ongoing services. However, using insurance has the potential to neglect your privacy.
I'm licensed in Maryland and Virginia with telehealth privileges in Florida. The pre and post-intensive sessions are virtual. The intensive itself is available virtually or in person in Baltimore, MD or Virginia Beach, VA, with the option to hold your Virginia Beach intensive on the beach, weather permitting.
