Adoption Therapists in York County, VA
Mackenzie Reed The Healing Project
Licensed Professional Counselor, M Ed
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23692
I also have a long history with adoption related issues through personal experience and through purposeful research.
Please visit the link beneath my picture to tour our website and explore all of the clinicians available at The Healing Project! We live in such a busy and changing world. Sometimes it feels like we are drowning, like we can't possibly make it another day, or get all the things done. Too often we forget to step back and breathe, focus on what isn't working, and make positive changes to experience life to its fullest. Or maybe we don't know where to start, or the journey feels too daunting. If you are ready to simplify life, enjoy life, and find solutions, I am here to walk with you on that journey!
I also have a long history with adoption related issues through personal experience and through purposeful research.
Please visit the link beneath my picture to tour our website and explore all of the clinicians available at The Healing Project! We live in such a busy and changing world. Sometimes it feels like we are drowning, like we can't possibly make it another day, or get all the things done. Too often we forget to step back and breathe, focus on what isn't working, and make positive changes to experience life to its fullest. Or maybe we don't know where to start, or the journey feels too daunting. If you are ready to simplify life, enjoy life, and find solutions, I am here to walk with you on that journey!
Kim Pinto The Healing Project
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, BCN, TF-CBT, CFTP, CCTS
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23690 (Online Only)
Areas of expertise include trauma, attachment, adoption issues, parent-child relationships, and mood disorders.
Please visit the link beneath my picture to tour our website and explore all of the clinicians available at The Healing Project. Sometimes life is hard! When you find life challenging, I specialize in helping you find your true north. Together we will develop a plan to get you back on track by making healthy changes. Whether you are dealing with sadness, depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, fragile self-esteem, or just feelings of being overwhelmed with life, I am here to listen, guide and empower you to discover your inner strength, your courage and your innate ability to thrive.
Areas of expertise include trauma, attachment, adoption issues, parent-child relationships, and mood disorders.
Please visit the link beneath my picture to tour our website and explore all of the clinicians available at The Healing Project. Sometimes life is hard! When you find life challenging, I specialize in helping you find your true north. Together we will develop a plan to get you back on track by making healthy changes. Whether you are dealing with sadness, depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, fragile self-esteem, or just feelings of being overwhelmed with life, I am here to listen, guide and empower you to discover your inner strength, your courage and your innate ability to thrive.
Lauri R Stoltzfus
Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23693 (Online Only)
I have experience working with all members of the adoption triad.
Accepting new clients! Welcome to my page. Do you feel suck in patterns you can't change? The most important part of counseling is the relationship between counselor and client. I foster that relationship by creating a collaborative, warm, and comfortable environment where you can focus on what you need to. Utilizing an open-minded approach, I address the whole person by using modalities of treatment that fit individual client needs. I see my role as your counselor is to give you the space to navigate through life's stressors, reprocess distressing experiences, and increase self-awareness.
I have experience working with all members of the adoption triad.
Accepting new clients! Welcome to my page. Do you feel suck in patterns you can't change? The most important part of counseling is the relationship between counselor and client. I foster that relationship by creating a collaborative, warm, and comfortable environment where you can focus on what you need to. Utilizing an open-minded approach, I address the whole person by using modalities of treatment that fit individual client needs. I see my role as your counselor is to give you the space to navigate through life's stressors, reprocess distressing experiences, and increase self-awareness.
Anchor Counseling and Consulting, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23692
Ahoy, welcome to Anchor Counseling and Consulting where we have mobilized counseling outside of the four walls of an office. Teletherapy and traditional in-person office visits are also available.
Ahoy, welcome to Anchor Counseling and Consulting where we have mobilized counseling outside of the four walls of an office. Teletherapy and traditional in-person office visits are also available.
Balance Life Coaching
Counselor, MS, CFI, PC, Life, Coach
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23692
Conflict is inevitable.... we have all battled and faced success and loss with loved ones, friends, family, school, employers, opposing teams and life! Life is all about challenge management, personal approach and flexibility. In a supportive & understanding environment we will unravel your stories and talk about your experiences. I support making tough decisions and taking personal ownership. While not easy, I advocate for taking brave steps toward positive growth and self-empowerment. The goal of peer-mentored life coaching is self-development and actualization through peer-support; freeing you from conflict and guilt.
Conflict is inevitable.... we have all battled and faced success and loss with loved ones, friends, family, school, employers, opposing teams and life! Life is all about challenge management, personal approach and flexibility. In a supportive & understanding environment we will unravel your stories and talk about your experiences. I support making tough decisions and taking personal ownership. While not easy, I advocate for taking brave steps toward positive growth and self-empowerment. The goal of peer-mentored life coaching is self-development and actualization through peer-support; freeing you from conflict and guilt.
Michael P Morgan
Licensed Professional Counselor, MSEd, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23693 (Online Only)
I offer compassionate care to those experiencing emotional or psychological distress. I have a wide-ranging and diverse background that provides a unique perspective from which to address a variety of client needs.
I offer compassionate care to those experiencing emotional or psychological distress. I have a wide-ranging and diverse background that provides a unique perspective from which to address a variety of client needs.
Ellie Mental Health - Yorktown: Kiln Creek, VA
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LSATP, CSAC, NCC
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23693
We are here to help anyone suffering from any form of Mental Health disorder. Our mission is to compassionately transform the culture of mental health by providing creative solutions for the needs of our communities. We do that with Humor, Compassion and Authenticity! We believe that struggling with mental health is 100% normal. Some days are great, and some days make you wish you could dig yourself into a hole and hide from it all. Everyone has those days (even your therapist). Let us support you through all of those days!
We are here to help anyone suffering from any form of Mental Health disorder. Our mission is to compassionately transform the culture of mental health by providing creative solutions for the needs of our communities. We do that with Humor, Compassion and Authenticity! We believe that struggling with mental health is 100% normal. Some days are great, and some days make you wish you could dig yourself into a hole and hide from it all. Everyone has those days (even your therapist). Let us support you through all of those days!
Lloyd Cloud
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23692
Have you experienced childhood trauma or experienced trauma in adulthood that resulted in you feeling sad, down, low energy, anxious, fearful, or unsafe and not your usual self. Do you have difficulty keeping up with your daily routine? Lloyd Cloud Therapy Services, LLC can help you regain your usual self. Lloyd Cloud Therapy Services, LLC specialized in trauma treatment, stress management strategies and hypnosis to help you regain your usual self.
Have you experienced childhood trauma or experienced trauma in adulthood that resulted in you feeling sad, down, low energy, anxious, fearful, or unsafe and not your usual self. Do you have difficulty keeping up with your daily routine? Lloyd Cloud Therapy Services, LLC can help you regain your usual self. Lloyd Cloud Therapy Services, LLC specialized in trauma treatment, stress management strategies and hypnosis to help you regain your usual self.
Brent Vallee
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23692
Are you looking for a Christian Counselor who provides biblically sound, compassionate and professional counseling in a safe and honest environment? I am here to help.
Are you looking for a Christian Counselor who provides biblically sound, compassionate and professional counseling in a safe and honest environment? I am here to help.
Carolyn Griffith
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23692
I see counseling as a partnership between client and therapist. As a trained family counselor, I work with couples, parents with their children and with individual adults . I believe that generally people's behavior is an attempt to have their needs met and that by listening and honoring their efforts , counseling can help them redirect their efforts in a more effective and healing manner. I integrate my extensive experience as a child & family social worker with counseling practices to support couples and families ( including step&,foster-adopt families) to blend, communicate and heal from conflicts & separations.
I see counseling as a partnership between client and therapist. As a trained family counselor, I work with couples, parents with their children and with individual adults . I believe that generally people's behavior is an attempt to have their needs met and that by listening and honoring their efforts , counseling can help them redirect their efforts in a more effective and healing manner. I integrate my extensive experience as a child & family social worker with counseling practices to support couples and families ( including step&,foster-adopt families) to blend, communicate and heal from conflicts & separations.
Rosa M Johnson, EdS, MA
Licensed Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23692
Start living your best life now. 2024 is the year for you to explore, experience, and embrace the BVOY. Becoming the best version of yourself 'BVOY' is within your reach. An awareness that you deserve to live a life filled with purpose and being the BVOY is step one. The next step is unpacking your baggage and identifying, exposing, and working through your stuck points. Stuck points manifest in many ways such as negative self-talk, self-doubt, self-sabotage, depression, anxiety, anger, stress, unresolved grief and loss, fears, and holding on to past hurts, disappointments, or toxic relationships. The BVOY is within you.
Start living your best life now. 2024 is the year for you to explore, experience, and embrace the BVOY. Becoming the best version of yourself 'BVOY' is within your reach. An awareness that you deserve to live a life filled with purpose and being the BVOY is step one. The next step is unpacking your baggage and identifying, exposing, and working through your stuck points. Stuck points manifest in many ways such as negative self-talk, self-doubt, self-sabotage, depression, anxiety, anger, stress, unresolved grief and loss, fears, and holding on to past hurts, disappointments, or toxic relationships. The BVOY is within you.
Marie W Cadden
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MAC
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23692 (Online Only)
I am a born and raised Southern girl and now a recent transplant to Virginia. I'm a licensed clinical social worker in both Virginia and Georgia and have 22+ years’ experience working with children, parents, and adult women in various stages of life. My specialities include anxiety, depression, ADD, stress and parenting difficulties. I especially enjoy assisting women with meeting their treatment goals! Additionally, I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I also offer EMDR intensives when appropriate.
I am a born and raised Southern girl and now a recent transplant to Virginia. I'm a licensed clinical social worker in both Virginia and Georgia and have 22+ years’ experience working with children, parents, and adult women in various stages of life. My specialities include anxiety, depression, ADD, stress and parenting difficulties. I especially enjoy assisting women with meeting their treatment goals! Additionally, I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I also offer EMDR intensives when appropriate.
Whitney J McLellon
Pre-Licensed Professional, MSW
Verified Verified
Yorktown, VA 23690
We all face challenges, but often struggle to know when and how to ask for help. You are here because you have taken that step. I believe that anyone who has the desire to change has the power to change. I am passionate about helping my clients become the best version of themselves and strive to provide a safe, nurturing environment where my clients feel heard, understood, and accepted. I have experience working with children, teens, adults, and family systems, and I enjoy the unique challenges and strengths that come with each age and life stage.
We all face challenges, but often struggle to know when and how to ask for help. You are here because you have taken that step. I believe that anyone who has the desire to change has the power to change. I am passionate about helping my clients become the best version of themselves and strive to provide a safe, nurturing environment where my clients feel heard, understood, and accepted. I have experience working with children, teens, adults, and family systems, and I enjoy the unique challenges and strengths that come with each age and life stage.
Danielle (Dani) Carson
Marriage & Family Therapist, LPC, LMFT, MBA
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23693
Sometimes our mental health is healthy and works for us, and sometimes, our mental health needs support to achieve our goals. I have openings to provide a safe place for children and families while you are going through stress; from managing family conflict, to coping with ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, chronic and life threatening illnesses, divorce, foster care, and other difficult situations. As your therapist, I believe that my role is to provide thorough assessment and treatment to support you and/or your child, individually and as a family.
Sometimes our mental health is healthy and works for us, and sometimes, our mental health needs support to achieve our goals. I have openings to provide a safe place for children and families while you are going through stress; from managing family conflict, to coping with ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, chronic and life threatening illnesses, divorce, foster care, and other difficult situations. As your therapist, I believe that my role is to provide thorough assessment and treatment to support you and/or your child, individually and as a family.
Ellen Barnes Velissarios
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC-S, CSAC, ADC, NCC
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23693 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
*CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. PLEASE CONTACT US TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST* I have been practicing counseling for over 15 years in acute, inpatient, outpatient, group home, not-for-profit, school, in-home, private, and residential facilities. My counseling theories most often practiced include solution-focused, cognitive behavioral therapy, reality therapy, family systems, and client-centered. However, techniques used are drawn from different counseling perspectives in order to meet the clients' individual needs and strengths. I work with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
*CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. PLEASE CONTACT US TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST* I have been practicing counseling for over 15 years in acute, inpatient, outpatient, group home, not-for-profit, school, in-home, private, and residential facilities. My counseling theories most often practiced include solution-focused, cognitive behavioral therapy, reality therapy, family systems, and client-centered. However, techniques used are drawn from different counseling perspectives in order to meet the clients' individual needs and strengths. I work with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Sarah P. Parks
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Yorktown, VA 23693
Not accepting new clients
Counseling is an opportunity to walk alongside someone struggling with issues that are common to humans, but impacting them in a particular way. I consider it an honor to be invited into another's thought life and I seek to offer perspective, provide encouragement, and nurture growth through difficult circumstances. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia and have additional training in biblical counseling from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (ccef.org). I have 17 years of clinical social work experience.
Counseling is an opportunity to walk alongside someone struggling with issues that are common to humans, but impacting them in a particular way. I consider it an honor to be invited into another's thought life and I seek to offer perspective, provide encouragement, and nurture growth through difficult circumstances. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia and have additional training in biblical counseling from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (ccef.org). I have 17 years of clinical social work experience.
Online Therapists
Betsy Hudson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Richmond, VA 23220
I am TAC-certified (Training in Adoption Competency) & former Battering Intervention Program facilitator.
Are you suffering from the end of a relationship? A job? Do you feel like you are in crisis, or no longer feel like yourself? Maybe you’re realizing that your life as it is in this moment is not working for you. Perhaps you feel alone, lost, or at a loss for what to do. Congratulations on taking the first step to finding relief and taking control. Life is too short to surrender to bad relationships, hold grudges, let trauma control us, or to be anxious or angry all the time. You may feel stuck, but there is hope.
I am TAC-certified (Training in Adoption Competency) & former Battering Intervention Program facilitator.
Are you suffering from the end of a relationship? A job? Do you feel like you are in crisis, or no longer feel like yourself? Maybe you’re realizing that your life as it is in this moment is not working for you. Perhaps you feel alone, lost, or at a loss for what to do. Congratulations on taking the first step to finding relief and taking control. Life is too short to surrender to bad relationships, hold grudges, let trauma control us, or to be anxious or angry all the time. You may feel stuck, but there is hope.
Katy Dooley
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
I completed a post-graduate specialization in Fertility Counseling and have expertise in supporting clients currently building their families or seeking to build their families through ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology), donor options, adoption, and surrogacy.
Through my compassionate and holistic approaches, I aim to create a safe and nurturing space for my clients to explore and prioritize their mental health along the therapeutic journey. My therapeutic framework is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness techniques, strengths-based approaches, and trauma-informed care which I use to empower clients to harness their inner resilience.
I completed a post-graduate specialization in Fertility Counseling and have expertise in supporting clients currently building their families or seeking to build their families through ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology), donor options, adoption, and surrogacy.
Through my compassionate and holistic approaches, I aim to create a safe and nurturing space for my clients to explore and prioritize their mental health along the therapeutic journey. My therapeutic framework is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness techniques, strengths-based approaches, and trauma-informed care which I use to empower clients to harness their inner resilience.
Erin Mccord
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
I have extensive training and supervision in child and adolescent therapy, specifically play therapy, as well as specialized training in adoption and attachment.
I started my career in a private foster care agency, then transitioned to a group practice for 7 years before opening my own practice. I enjoy working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I have specialized training in adoption and play therapy. I view counseling as a partnership between client and counselor. I value the therapeutic relationship as central to supporting clients in developing insight, increasing self-awareness, and processing hurts. I utilize a variety of strategies to assist clients with examining their patterns in thought, feelings, and behaviors, to increase understanding, and make adjustments toward improved functioning.
I have extensive training and supervision in child and adolescent therapy, specifically play therapy, as well as specialized training in adoption and attachment.
I started my career in a private foster care agency, then transitioned to a group practice for 7 years before opening my own practice. I enjoy working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I have specialized training in adoption and play therapy. I view counseling as a partnership between client and counselor. I value the therapeutic relationship as central to supporting clients in developing insight, increasing self-awareness, and processing hurts. I utilize a variety of strategies to assist clients with examining their patterns in thought, feelings, and behaviors, to increase understanding, and make adjustments toward improved functioning.
Online Counseling Services of Virginia
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LPC, OT, CALT
Verified Verified
Fredericksburg, VA 22405 (Online Only)
We understand attachment, pre/post partum, mothering, adoption, adolescents, and ADHD.
Have your negative thoughts taken over? Have you been feeling sad or stressed while trying to keep it all together? Struggling with motivation? Are your relationships distant or full of conflict? Have you been feeling disconnected from those around you? Wanting to talk with someone but not knowing with whom, or how? Asking for help can be hard! Seeking therapy requires a great deal of strength and commitment and you have taken a great first step. We are going to guide you the rest of the way.
We understand attachment, pre/post partum, mothering, adoption, adolescents, and ADHD.
Have your negative thoughts taken over? Have you been feeling sad or stressed while trying to keep it all together? Struggling with motivation? Are your relationships distant or full of conflict? Have you been feeling disconnected from those around you? Wanting to talk with someone but not knowing with whom, or how? Asking for help can be hard! Seeking therapy requires a great deal of strength and commitment and you have taken a great first step. We are going to guide you the rest of the way.
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Adoption Therapists
Does my adopted child need therapy?
Not every adopted child needs therapy. However, many can benefit from seeing an adoption-informed therapist, especially if they were victims of abuse or neglect, appear withdrawn or disconnected, have behavioral or developmental issues (which may or may not be related to their adoption), are struggling with feelings of grief or loss surrounding their birth parents, or find it difficult to establish an identity, a challenge that often becomes most apparent during adolescence.
When should adoptive parents seek therapy?
Prospective parents can benefit from therapy even before an adoption—for example, to voice worries and fears; to reconcile infertility struggles, if relevant; or simply to prepare themselves for parenthood. After the adoption, parents who are struggling to bond with their child; are unsure how to talk about adoption or related issues, such as race; or whose child is dealing with developmental, behavioral, or psychiatric concerns can address these and other issues with the help of an adoption-competent therapist.
Is family therapy appropriate for adoptive families?
Family therapy can be invaluable for strengthening the bond between adoptive parents and children, helping the latter feel more secure in their place in the family. Family therapy can also help adoptive families navigate complex communication issues—for example, parents who feel uncomfortable discussing race with their child, who in turn feels invalidated by their silence, or a child who has questions about his birth parents but avoids asking them out of fear of hurting his adoptive parents’ feelings.
What therapy is not appropriate for adoption issues?
A discredited therapy known as “attachment therapy” (sometimes called “holding therapy” or “rebirthing therapy”) should not be used to treat adopted and foster children, though it was largely designed for this population. Attachment therapy involves restraining, coercing, and punishing the child in order for them to “release” negative emotions and attach to their new caregivers—techniques that are abusive and dangerous and have even proven fatal in some cases.