Mana K Carter, PHD| Psychology | MedStar Health
Mana K Carter, PhD
Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health
Provider is directly employed by MedStar HealthSpecialties: Psychology
Languages: English
About me
Mana K. Ali Carter, PhD, is a board-certified rehabilitation psychologist at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH). In both inpatient and outpatient medical rehabilitation settings, Dr. Ali Carter conducts psychological assessments and provides interventions aimed to support mood, coping with disabilities, health behaviors (e.g., pain management, sleep hygiene), and overall quality of life.
Dr. Ali Carter is licensed in both Maryland and the District of Columbia. She also serves as the Director of Training for the Rehabilitation and Pain Psychology Fellowship at MedStar NRH and Co-Chair for MedStar National Rehabilitation Network’s Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee.
Clinical areas of focus
- Adjustment Disorder Treatment
- Anxiety Disorder Treatment
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Health Promotion Counseling
- Mood Disorder Treatment
- Personality Disorder Treatment
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Psychotherapy
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Adjustment Disorder
- Adjustment Disorder With Anxiety
- Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Amphetamine Addiction
- Amputation Mental Health Issues
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Brain Injury Mental Health Issues
- Chronic Illness Coping
- Chronic Illness Mental Health Issues
- Chronic Pain And Mental Health
- Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome
- Chronic Stress
- Cocaine Related Disorders
- Cognitive Rehabilitation After Brain Injury
- Depression
- Depressive Episode
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Adjustment After Limb Loss
- Emotional Disturbance
- Emotional State Symptoms
- Insomnia
- Learning Disabilities
- Mental Disorders Due To Physiological Condition
- Mental Health Conditions
- Mood Disorder Due To Traumatic Brain Injury
- Mood Disorders
- Neuropathic Pain Management
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Parkinson's Disease
- Phobia
- Problems Related To Lifestyle
- Reaction To Stress And Adjustment Disorders In Children
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleep Disorders
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Somatoform Disorder
- Substance Abuse
- Substance Use Disorder
- Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury Depression
- Traumatic Brain Injury In Children
Procedures I perform
- Academic Counseling
- Adjustment Disorder Treatment
- Anger Management For Children
- Anxiety Disorder Treatment
- Anxiety Management
- Art Therapy For Children
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Testing
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Treatment
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment
- Attention Training For Anxiety
- Behavioral Activation
- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Interventions
- Binge Eating Disorder Treatment
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Cognitive Flexibility Training
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Coping Skills Training
- Dance Therapy
- Dance Therapy For Children
- Depression Treatment
- Developmental Psychology
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy For Children
- Emotional Intelligence Testing
- Existential Group Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing
- Family Systems Therapy For Children
- Gestalt Therapy For Children
- Graston Technique
- Grief Counseling
- Grief Counseling For Teens
- Group Psychotherapy
- Group Therapy
- Guided Imagery
- Guided Imagery For Pain
- Health Promotion Counseling
- Humanistic Psychology
- Hypnosis For Pain
- Hypnotherapy
- Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Testing
- Mental Status Exam
- Mep (MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS)
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy For Addiction
- Mood Disorder Treatment
- Motivational Interviewing
- Neuromuscular Rehabilitation
- Neuropsychological Testing
- Pain Medication Management
- Parent Management Training
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy For Children
- Personality Disorder Treatment
- Play Therapy
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Screening
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Psychological Counseling For Cancer
- Psychological Evaluation
- Psychological Testing And Assessment
- Psychotherapy
- Relaxation Training
- Schizophrenia Treatment
- Social Psychology
- Social Skills Training
- Somatic Experiencing
- Somatic Experiencing For Children
- Stress Management And Relaxation Techniques
- Stress Reduction
- Substance Abuse Treatment
Practice locations
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102 Irving St NW
NRH Rehab at Irving St Outpatient Center
Washington, DC, 20010
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- IH-Open POS Plus
- First Health PPO
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- IH-Open HMO Option
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- United Student Resources
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Beech Street PPO
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Choice POS II
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Optimum Choice
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- CareFirst EPO
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- IH-POS
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Medicare Direct
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Employee Health Plan
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- IH-EPO Plus
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- UHC Passport
- IH-HMO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- HumanaChoice PPO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- HighMark
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Aetna Basic
- IH-Open HMO
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Choice Fund PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Navigate
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Medicare FFS
- Choice POS
- TRICARE East Prime
- TRICARE for Life East
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- TRICARE East Select
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- United Healthcare Choice
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Network OA
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- First Health PPO
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- POS OA
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- IH-POS Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- IH-Network Only Plus
- IH-Indemnity
- CIGNA PPO
- IH-PPO
- Sentara Health
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- CIGNA Indemnity
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Aetna Classic 5000
- IH-Open POS II
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CareFirst NASCO
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Administrators
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Aetna HMO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- MultiPlan, Inc
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- OA Plus
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
Education
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2017)
Internship: Baltimore VA Medical Center (2015)
Graduate: Howard University (2015)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Ali, M.K., & Mickens, M. (2018). Treatment engagement and multicultural considerations. In. A. Maragakis, & W.T. O’Donohue, Principle-based stepped care and brief psychotherapy for integrated care settings (p.449). Cham, Switerzland:Springer.
Ali, M.K., Hack, S.M., Brown, C.H., Medoff, D., Fang, L., Klingaman, E.A., Park, S.G., Dixon, LB., Kreyenbuhl, J.A. (2017). Racial differences in mental health recovery among Veterans with serious mental illness. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities doi: 10.1007/s40615-017-0363-z
Beacham, A.O., Van Sickle, K.S., Khatri, P., Ali, M., Reimer, D., Farber, E.W., & Kaslow, N.J. (2017). Meeting evolving workforce needs: Preparing psychologists for leadership in the Patient Centered Medical Home. American Psychologist, 72(1), 42-54.
Farber, E.W., Ali, M.K., Van Sickle, K.S., & Kaslow, N.J. (2017). Psychology in Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Reducing health disparities and promoting health equity. American Psychologist, 72(1), 28-41.
Sims, R.C., Cole, A.P., Ali, M.K., Whitfield, K.E., Skinner, J., Mwendwa, D.T. (2016). Examining the influence of obesity on executive function and memory in middle age and older African Americans. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 31, 23-28.
Ali, M., Mwendwa, D., Sims, R., Ramsey, N., Ricks, M., Callender, C., & Sumner, A.E. (2016).The association between age at immigration and kidney function in relatively healthy African immigrants in the United States. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18(1), 294-201.
Ali, M., Mwendwa, D., Sims, R., & Whitfield, K.E. (2014). Mindfulness as a potential protective factor against negative affect in older African Americans. Journal of Depression and Anxiety, S1, 1.
Sims, R.C., Bennett, N., Mwendwa, D.T., Ali, M., Levy, S.A., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2014). Executive functioning and negative eating behaviors in severely obese African Americans. Ethnicity and Disease, 24(3), 328-324.
Mwendwa, D., Ali, M., Sims, R., Cole, A., Lipscomb, M., Levy, S., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2013). Depressive and hostile personality styles are associated with inflammatory markers of cardiovascular disease in African Americans. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 28, 72-82.
Mwendwa D., Ali, M., Sims, R., Madhere, S., Levy, S., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2013). Psychometric properties of the Cook Medley Hostility Scale and its association with inflammatory markers in African Americans. Psychology, Health, and Medicine, 18, 431-444.
Mwendwa, D.T., Gholson, G., Sims, R.C., Levy-Massey, S.A., Ali, M., Harrell, J., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (2011). Coping with perceived racism: A significant factor in the development of obesity in African-American women? Journal of the National Medical Association, 103, 602-608.
Sims, R., Mwendwa, D., Ali, M., Thomas, J., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2010). Depressive symptomatology: Relations to C-reactive protein in African-American men. Journal of Best Practices in Health Profession Diversity: Research, Education and Policy, 3, 43.
Ali, M.K., Hack, S.M., Brown, C.H., Medoff, D., Fang, L., Klingaman, E.A., Park, S.G., Dixon, LB., Kreyenbuhl, J.A. (2017). Racial differences in mental health recovery among Veterans with serious mental illness. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities doi: 10.1007/s40615-017-0363-z
Beacham, A.O., Van Sickle, K.S., Khatri, P., Ali, M., Reimer, D., Farber, E.W., & Kaslow, N.J. (2017). Meeting evolving workforce needs: Preparing psychologists for leadership in the Patient Centered Medical Home. American Psychologist, 72(1), 42-54.
Farber, E.W., Ali, M.K., Van Sickle, K.S., & Kaslow, N.J. (2017). Psychology in Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Reducing health disparities and promoting health equity. American Psychologist, 72(1), 28-41.
Sims, R.C., Cole, A.P., Ali, M.K., Whitfield, K.E., Skinner, J., Mwendwa, D.T. (2016). Examining the influence of obesity on executive function and memory in middle age and older African Americans. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 31, 23-28.
Ali, M., Mwendwa, D., Sims, R., Ramsey, N., Ricks, M., Callender, C., & Sumner, A.E. (2016).The association between age at immigration and kidney function in relatively healthy African immigrants in the United States. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18(1), 294-201.
Ali, M., Mwendwa, D., Sims, R., & Whitfield, K.E. (2014). Mindfulness as a potential protective factor against negative affect in older African Americans. Journal of Depression and Anxiety, S1, 1.
Sims, R.C., Bennett, N., Mwendwa, D.T., Ali, M., Levy, S.A., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2014). Executive functioning and negative eating behaviors in severely obese African Americans. Ethnicity and Disease, 24(3), 328-324.
Mwendwa, D., Ali, M., Sims, R., Cole, A., Lipscomb, M., Levy, S., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2013). Depressive and hostile personality styles are associated with inflammatory markers of cardiovascular disease in African Americans. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 28, 72-82.
Mwendwa D., Ali, M., Sims, R., Madhere, S., Levy, S., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2013). Psychometric properties of the Cook Medley Hostility Scale and its association with inflammatory markers in African Americans. Psychology, Health, and Medicine, 18, 431-444.
Mwendwa, D.T., Gholson, G., Sims, R.C., Levy-Massey, S.A., Ali, M., Harrell, J., Callender, C.O., & Campbell, A.L. (2011). Coping with perceived racism: A significant factor in the development of obesity in African-American women? Journal of the National Medical Association, 103, 602-608.
Sims, R., Mwendwa, D., Ali, M., Thomas, J., Callender, C., & Campbell, A. (2010). Depressive symptomatology: Relations to C-reactive protein in African-American men. Journal of Best Practices in Health Profession Diversity: Research, Education and Policy, 3, 43.