Therapists in Frederick County, VA

I am only accepting clients for online sessions and Art Therapy Groups at this time. I am compassionate and nonjudgmental and will offer the support you need to overcome life's difficulties. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Art Therapist, I have experience with a wide array of healing modalities. Together we can find the approach that works best for you. I utilize a holistic counseling approach and one of my gifts is listening and responding with my heart. I believe that counseling can help you live a life that you love.

I have spent my career working with persons across the lifespan, providing individual, group, family, parent-child, and couples therapy. My therapeutic approach focuses on using your strengths to help you develop coping strategies for difficulties you are experiencing. I believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship and the value of hearing your story. My commitment to you includes a belief that things can and will begin to get better. Much of my work has been with trauma survivors, and I have witnessed and been humbled by the power of resiliency and posttraumatic growth.

I have over 20 years of experience as a therapist, working with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma; and stressors related to related difficult life transitions, unhealthy relationships, and family conflict. I believe a productive therapeutic experience should focus less on the bad choices you have made in your life and more on the right choices you decide to make going forward. Your past is important but not as important as your future. You will leave therapy, empowered with new tools and feeling confident about the new direction of your life.

I believe in meeting where individuals are at within the counseling relationship. Change takes a team, starting from the therapeutic relationship and building into one’s natural support system. I have experience working with teenagers and adults, both in individual and family settings. Most of my experience comes from witnessing the challenges seen post pandemic, and how it affected us all. Whether that is difficulty socializing, rigidity in behaviors, increased symptoms of anxiety/depression, losses among loved ones or identity loss, and any other life transitions.

We are an established and well regarded group practice offering counseling and psychiatric services to our clients. We have 2 locations to meet our client needs.. Our experienced providers have a variety of specialties and utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well as other treatment approaches. We are pleased to offer Individual, Marriage and Family Counseling as well as Medication Management.

My areas of focus with clients include anxiety, depression, identity development, life changes and transitions, self-esteem, body image, interpersonal difficulties, family of origin issues, and general stressors of daily life. I work with adult clients of all ages and have often worked with young adults. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as a National Certified Counselor.

I am board-certified Licensed Professional Counselor with over 10 years experience. I have substantial experience working with adults with a diverse range of demographic backgrounds and mental health needs. My goal is to help clients overcome difficult circumstances impacting their health and wellness. I work to help my clients uncover their strengths, develop resiliency and become an agent of change in their life. In my practice, I honor diversity and inclusion; I do this by offering supportive and affirming services to every individual I work with.

We all experience problems in life. Therapy can help address your issues to create a happier, meaningful and fulfilling life. People seek therapy for many reasons including mental health issues, overwhelming emotions, trauma, medical trauma, difficult life transitions, feeling stuck, relationship, and family/parenting issues to name a few. We can work to resolve issues, reduce stress, and move on. No issue is too small or too big. Therapy offers the opportunity to learn about oneself, access your inner strength and lead a fulfilling life that you want. We can work to meet your needs in a warm, supportive and caring environment.

The process of therapy is much like a flower blooming: each petal unfolds gently at its own pace under nurturing conditions, eventually revealing a unique and lovely creation where the sum of its parts is greater than the whole. I value the process of unfolding and seek to create a warm and safe space for your story and growth to unfold organically in our work together. The therapeutic relationship is the foundation of my approach and I hope to support you on your journey towards a balanced and meaningful life. I believe in the power of play and utilizing expressive therapies to help you expand, explore, and move through challenges.

Counseling is a journey towards integration. I'm here to help you overcome anxiety or depression, traumas of any kind, or if you are simply looking for someone to listen to you and provide a non-judgmental and accepting place for you to process life's experiences. I profoundly believe that you do not enter therapy "broken" or that clients need to be "fixed". By learning self-compassion and acceptance, most of our struggles can be understood as manifestations or behaviors that follow from wounds or traumas. The journey is about healing and transformation, rather than getting over something.

Problematic use of pornography? Promiscuous sexual behavior that is impacting your relationships? Legal involvement as the result of sexual behavior? I can help you understand where and how these behaviors originate and give you the tools to implement change which will in turn assist in gaining more meaningful and fulfilling relationships.