Family Therapy in Montclair, VA
Mmere Dane Counseling (Cortnee Williams)
Resident in Counseling, MS, LPC-R
Verified Verified
Montclair, VA 22025 (Online Only)
I specialize in childhood, adolescent, and young adult mental health, as well as Sports/Performance counseling. I have helped individuals with barriers associated with self-confidence, identity, relationships, depression, anxiety, life transitions (including educational and career changes), family dynamics, lack of motivation, and misplaced meaning and purpose.
I specialize in childhood, adolescent, and young adult mental health, as well as Sports/Performance counseling. I have helped individuals with barriers associated with self-confidence, identity, relationships, depression, anxiety, life transitions (including educational and career changes), family dynamics, lack of motivation, and misplaced meaning and purpose.
Where you would like support to try out new ways of interacting with family, friends, or a partner, I can be there to support you through this change.
I work with clients to go deep into the origins of who they are and how life and relationships have shaped them. When you look deeper into your story you can make sense of how you have learned to navigate connection, emotions, conflict, boundaries, and relational needs. We can explore the stuck points, protectors, adaptations, and threat mitigation strategies you have needed up until now. We can also make space for any parts or wounds that need healing or going back for. Along the way, I can help you access your inner resources, wisdom, and resilience. My role is to help you explore the other possibilities available to you.
Where you would like support to try out new ways of interacting with family, friends, or a partner, I can be there to support you through this change.
I work with clients to go deep into the origins of who they are and how life and relationships have shaped them. When you look deeper into your story you can make sense of how you have learned to navigate connection, emotions, conflict, boundaries, and relational needs. We can explore the stuck points, protectors, adaptations, and threat mitigation strategies you have needed up until now. We can also make space for any parts or wounds that need healing or going back for. Along the way, I can help you access your inner resources, wisdom, and resilience. My role is to help you explore the other possibilities available to you.
Rachel Pendergraft Beck
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Montclair, VA 22025 (Online Only)
I specialize in cultivating a safe space for couples to reconnect, resolve well-worn patterns, and repair old wounds. It might be that each of you has a different way of navigating emotions, conflict, disconnection, or stress. For most couples, this includes one partner pursuing connection or resolution, upping the ante when they can’t feel their important other, and the other partner withdrawing or shutting down in an effort to reduce tension and diffuse the conflict. Many couples find these different relational strategies can lead to cycles of frustration, misunderstanding, pain, and protectiveness they can’t find a way out of.
I specialize in cultivating a safe space for couples to reconnect, resolve well-worn patterns, and repair old wounds. It might be that each of you has a different way of navigating emotions, conflict, disconnection, or stress. For most couples, this includes one partner pursuing connection or resolution, upping the ante when they can’t feel their important other, and the other partner withdrawing or shutting down in an effort to reduce tension and diffuse the conflict. Many couples find these different relational strategies can lead to cycles of frustration, misunderstanding, pain, and protectiveness they can’t find a way out of.
Couples Therapy at The Center for Connection
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LPC, LCSW, LMFT-R, LPC-R
Verified Verified
10 Endorsed
Montclair, VA 22025
We help couples build person-to-person, heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul connections. We all long to be seen, heard, understood, held, and cherished by our precious person. Being in secure connection often conflicts with how life has shaped us. For many of us, relationship experiences have included bumps in the road, needs have been missed, wounds have developed, protections have grown, trust has been broken, limited beliefs have emerged, and parts of us have been hidden away. We help couples explore how life has influenced their interactions and then find lasting ways to heal, connect, repair, meet unmet needs, and build security.
We help couples build person-to-person, heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul connections. We all long to be seen, heard, understood, held, and cherished by our precious person. Being in secure connection often conflicts with how life has shaped us. For many of us, relationship experiences have included bumps in the road, needs have been missed, wounds have developed, protections have grown, trust has been broken, limited beliefs have emerged, and parts of us have been hidden away. We help couples explore how life has influenced their interactions and then find lasting ways to heal, connect, repair, meet unmet needs, and build security.
I am a licensed professional counselor with over 25 years of experience counseling at-risk children, youth, adults, and families. I am direct and empathic with people. My approach to counseling is person-centered and eclectic, combining attachment-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma-focused therapy, solution-focused therapy, and mindfulness to meet the needs of my clients.
I am a licensed professional counselor with over 25 years of experience counseling at-risk children, youth, adults, and families. I am direct and empathic with people. My approach to counseling is person-centered and eclectic, combining attachment-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma-focused therapy, solution-focused therapy, and mindfulness to meet the needs of my clients.
Couples Therapy at The Center for Connection
Pre-Licensed Professional, LMFT-R, LPC-R, LMFT, LPC, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Montclair, VA 22025
We help couples build person-to-person, heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul connections. We all long to be seen, heard, understood, held, and cherished by our precious person. Being in secure connection often conflicts with how life has shaped us. For many of us, relationship experiences have included bumps in the road, needs have been missed, wounds have developed, protections have grown, trust has been broken, limited beliefs have emerged, and parts of us have been hidden away. We help couples explore how life has influenced their interactions and then find lasting ways to heal, connect, repair, meet unmet needs, and build security.
We help couples build person-to-person, heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul connections. We all long to be seen, heard, understood, held, and cherished by our precious person. Being in secure connection often conflicts with how life has shaped us. For many of us, relationship experiences have included bumps in the road, needs have been missed, wounds have developed, protections have grown, trust has been broken, limited beliefs have emerged, and parts of us have been hidden away. We help couples explore how life has influenced their interactions and then find lasting ways to heal, connect, repair, meet unmet needs, and build security.
Savanna Martin
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, MS
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Montclair, VA 22025 (Online Only)
Now accepting EAPs. Pouring from an empty cup doesn't work. It seems like an easy concept, but for most of us, prioritizing our own self-care feels like we are doing something wrong. Yet, when we are caring for others and not prioritizing our own needs, we are left feeling burnt out and often anxious. It's not a simple task to achieve balance when we are pulled in so many directions and experiencing so much stress. This is why seeking support is important.
Now accepting EAPs. Pouring from an empty cup doesn't work. It seems like an easy concept, but for most of us, prioritizing our own self-care feels like we are doing something wrong. Yet, when we are caring for others and not prioritizing our own needs, we are left feeling burnt out and often anxious. It's not a simple task to achieve balance when we are pulled in so many directions and experiencing so much stress. This is why seeking support is important.
In an ideal world, our relationship experiences are secure, safe, accessible, and responsive and we learn we can trust and are loveable, worthy, and deserving of our needs being met. When this is not our experience, we find ways to adapt and survive moments of disconnection, invalidation, hurt, or overwhelm. This plays out as self-limiting beliefs, hiding parts of who we are, denying or being flooded with emotions, shutting down, people pleasing, perfectionism, hustling for our worth, and/or building up our protections. I work with adults, children (2-18), parents, and families to connect, heal, and be each other's greatest resource
In an ideal world, our relationship experiences are secure, safe, accessible, and responsive and we learn we can trust and are loveable, worthy, and deserving of our needs being met. When this is not our experience, we find ways to adapt and survive moments of disconnection, invalidation, hurt, or overwhelm. This plays out as self-limiting beliefs, hiding parts of who we are, denying or being flooded with emotions, shutting down, people pleasing, perfectionism, hustling for our worth, and/or building up our protections. I work with adults, children (2-18), parents, and families to connect, heal, and be each other's greatest resource
When we are in conflict, disconnection, or misunderstanding with a loved one, we all experience distress. Our protective strategies come alive- we shut down, criticize, go numb, or pursue for reconnection. We find ourselves in the same old dance, talking different relational languages we can’t seem to reconcile, and having the same old fight. I help individuals, couples, and families talk about what is happening inside them, identify needs, and understand what is at the core of any recurring patterns. I make space for all the ways life has shaped each of you, how this impacts your interactions, and where the misses are taking place.
When we are in conflict, disconnection, or misunderstanding with a loved one, we all experience distress. Our protective strategies come alive- we shut down, criticize, go numb, or pursue for reconnection. We find ourselves in the same old dance, talking different relational languages we can’t seem to reconcile, and having the same old fight. I help individuals, couples, and families talk about what is happening inside them, identify needs, and understand what is at the core of any recurring patterns. I make space for all the ways life has shaped each of you, how this impacts your interactions, and where the misses are taking place.
Welcoming Spirituality Into Psychotherapy at CCHC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMFT, LCSW, LPC, MDiv
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Montclair, VA 22025
We view therapy as a vehicle for becoming truly whole and free to live in the fullness of our true self. This journey of becoming sometimes requires a process of healing, retrieving lost and hidden-away parts of self, and/or going back to our origins to make sense of the present. None of us make it through life without enduring hurts and losses along the way. Creating space to acknowledge the ways life has shaped us can be the foundation for returning to a place of wholeness, connection, and purpose. If you are curious or called to explore your spiritual connection and practices, whatever this means for you, we can be alongside you.
We view therapy as a vehicle for becoming truly whole and free to live in the fullness of our true self. This journey of becoming sometimes requires a process of healing, retrieving lost and hidden-away parts of self, and/or going back to our origins to make sense of the present. None of us make it through life without enduring hurts and losses along the way. Creating space to acknowledge the ways life has shaped us can be the foundation for returning to a place of wholeness, connection, and purpose. If you are curious or called to explore your spiritual connection and practices, whatever this means for you, we can be alongside you.
I specialize in the relationships we have with ourselves, partners, children, and families. Whether a child or adult, our behaviors can always be made sense of when seen as a bid for connection, security, co-regulation, or validation. Where responses feel disruptive, defiant, shut down, withdrawn, critical, or overwhelming, they are a protest against disconnection or change, indications of a missed need, or a signal that whatever is happening is outside of a capacity to cope at that moment. I make space for everyone’s resourceful, brilliant, and sometimes limiting patterns, emotions, needs, protectors, and adaptations.
I specialize in the relationships we have with ourselves, partners, children, and families. Whether a child or adult, our behaviors can always be made sense of when seen as a bid for connection, security, co-regulation, or validation. Where responses feel disruptive, defiant, shut down, withdrawn, critical, or overwhelming, they are a protest against disconnection or change, indications of a missed need, or a signal that whatever is happening is outside of a capacity to cope at that moment. I make space for everyone’s resourceful, brilliant, and sometimes limiting patterns, emotions, needs, protectors, and adaptations.
Life and relationships sometimes offer inaccurate messages about who we are, what we deserve, and what is available to us. Where you have felt invalidated, shamed, limited, or unsafe, I want to help you rewrite your story. I am passionate about connection, communication, mind-body-soul healing, and guiding others into their light. I support individuals and couples in identifying patterns such as over-functioning, perfectionism, people-pleasing, shutting down, withdrawing, or focusing on tasks. As we explore the roots of these strategies, we can find new ways to relate, meet needs, build self-worth, and heal old hurts.
Life and relationships sometimes offer inaccurate messages about who we are, what we deserve, and what is available to us. Where you have felt invalidated, shamed, limited, or unsafe, I want to help you rewrite your story. I am passionate about connection, communication, mind-body-soul healing, and guiding others into their light. I support individuals and couples in identifying patterns such as over-functioning, perfectionism, people-pleasing, shutting down, withdrawing, or focusing on tasks. As we explore the roots of these strategies, we can find new ways to relate, meet needs, build self-worth, and heal old hurts.
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Indelible Changes, LLC (Nick Williams)
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, NCC, LPC
Verified Verified
Dumfries, VA 22025
If you are willing to partner with us, and trust us, then together we can help you and/or your family to heal.
Our mission is "To empower individuals, couples, and families to break free from the chains that bind them, in order to create present and multi-generational changes that last forever." Indelible means that which cannot be undone; permanent." Too often, individuals, couples, and families cycle through services and treatment providers, only to continue suffering and feeling as if no one understands and/or no one can help. This can be traumatic. Often, issues can run deep and last for generations. Indelible Changes was born out of the desire to help individuals, couples, and families break free from the chains that bind them.
If you are willing to partner with us, and trust us, then together we can help you and/or your family to heal.
Our mission is "To empower individuals, couples, and families to break free from the chains that bind them, in order to create present and multi-generational changes that last forever." Indelible means that which cannot be undone; permanent." Too often, individuals, couples, and families cycle through services and treatment providers, only to continue suffering and feeling as if no one understands and/or no one can help. This can be traumatic. Often, issues can run deep and last for generations. Indelible Changes was born out of the desire to help individuals, couples, and families break free from the chains that bind them.
Steven Milgrim
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LSATP
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Dumfries, VA 22025
In mental health since 1987, I have been in private practice since 2000. I offer competence and caring in a supportive, safe, inclusive and confidential environment. My varied experience offers me insight into a wide range of areas. I custom craft a growth and learning experience for each individual, family and intimate relationship. Special training in the areas of substance abuse and couples counseling allows me to work with challenging and difficult issues with skill and caring. I promise to provide each client with the maximum potential for growth and healing. Please call me at (703) 499-9889 to speak to me directly.
In mental health since 1987, I have been in private practice since 2000. I offer competence and caring in a supportive, safe, inclusive and confidential environment. My varied experience offers me insight into a wide range of areas. I custom craft a growth and learning experience for each individual, family and intimate relationship. Special training in the areas of substance abuse and couples counseling allows me to work with challenging and difficult issues with skill and caring. I promise to provide each client with the maximum potential for growth and healing. Please call me at (703) 499-9889 to speak to me directly.
To recharge my battery, my self-care activities include time with my family and friends, live music-concerts and travel.
Congratulations! You are beginning the process of looking for a therapist. The relationship between therapist and client is vital to the healing process. Life can be difficult, therapy doesn't have to be. Managing multiple stressors and expectations can become overwhelming. Spending a hour on self-care in the form of therapy is worth it, you are worth it. No matter what you're going through you can get through it with support, learning new coping skills and problem solving. Learning how your thoughts and emotions affect your behaviors, you'll see that you are able to manage stress, reduce symptoms related to anxiety and depression,
To recharge my battery, my self-care activities include time with my family and friends, live music-concerts and travel.
Congratulations! You are beginning the process of looking for a therapist. The relationship between therapist and client is vital to the healing process. Life can be difficult, therapy doesn't have to be. Managing multiple stressors and expectations can become overwhelming. Spending a hour on self-care in the form of therapy is worth it, you are worth it. No matter what you're going through you can get through it with support, learning new coping skills and problem solving. Learning how your thoughts and emotions affect your behaviors, you'll see that you are able to manage stress, reduce symptoms related to anxiety and depression,
Virginia Home-Based Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Dumfries, VA 22025
Services are built around the individual and family preferences, choices, values, strengths, and the natural support systems of the family and community.
Virginia Home-Based Counseling, P.C. is an intensive in-home counseling service for children, adolescents, and their families. The goal is to address problems and provide therapeutic services designed to empower individuals and families, allowing them to develop and lead healthier lives. The primary goal of this program is to preserve the family unit and prevent the unnecessary placement of children outside of their homes or community. We are dedicated to providing the highest level of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services to our community, including but not limited to: assessments, crisis intervention and treatment, individual and family counseling, life skills training, therapeutic parenting techniques, communication and relationship enhancement, individual case management, and 24-hour emergency response.
Services are built around the individual and family preferences, choices, values, strengths, and the natural support systems of the family and community.
Virginia Home-Based Counseling, P.C. is an intensive in-home counseling service for children, adolescents, and their families. The goal is to address problems and provide therapeutic services designed to empower individuals and families, allowing them to develop and lead healthier lives. The primary goal of this program is to preserve the family unit and prevent the unnecessary placement of children outside of their homes or community. We are dedicated to providing the highest level of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services to our community, including but not limited to: assessments, crisis intervention and treatment, individual and family counseling, life skills training, therapeutic parenting techniques, communication and relationship enhancement, individual case management, and 24-hour emergency response.
Indelible Changes, LLC (Erin Koffman Pollock)
Resident in Counseling, JD, MA, RIC
Verified Verified
Dumfries, VA 22025
Our mission is "To empower individuals, couples, and families to break free from the chains that bind them, in order to create present and multi-generational changes that last forever. Indelible means that which cannot be undone; permanent." Everyone needs some extra support in their lives, at times, to work through difficult situations and complex feelings. Working collaboratively with my clients, we create action plans to get their lives back on track, while enabling them to embrace the strength to find their way forward to a meaningful future they are excited about.
Our mission is "To empower individuals, couples, and families to break free from the chains that bind them, in order to create present and multi-generational changes that last forever. Indelible means that which cannot be undone; permanent." Everyone needs some extra support in their lives, at times, to work through difficult situations and complex feelings. Working collaboratively with my clients, we create action plans to get their lives back on track, while enabling them to embrace the strength to find their way forward to a meaningful future they are excited about.
I believe that we as clinicians must adapt our styles to our clients to ensure success. Combining a solution focused and cognitive behavioral skillset to explore issues which arise in one's life, re-frame and refocus them, and develop action plans with tangible steps and frequent check ins. I have both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Social Work, and am a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the Stsate of Ohio.
I believe that we as clinicians must adapt our styles to our clients to ensure success. Combining a solution focused and cognitive behavioral skillset to explore issues which arise in one's life, re-frame and refocus them, and develop action plans with tangible steps and frequent check ins. I have both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Social Work, and am a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the Stsate of Ohio.
I wish life were as easy as the old song, "nothing but Blue Skies from now on". However, some of life's challenges are complex and we can often find ourselves stuck under gray skies. It would be my privilege to partner with you while we figure out how to get you and your loved ones unstuck.
I wish life were as easy as the old song, "nothing but Blue Skies from now on". However, some of life's challenges are complex and we can often find ourselves stuck under gray skies. It would be my privilege to partner with you while we figure out how to get you and your loved ones unstuck.
Melanie Wert
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Dumfries, VA 22025
Waitlist for new clients
Do you feel stuck and uncertain about the future, desiring to become the best version of yourself? I specialize in utilizing a strengths-based approach to treatment providing freedom from negative self-talk and past trauma. Anxiety, depression, life transition, and day to day stress can be hard to manage. Feelings of isolation and loneliness can become cumbersome and create a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. I utilize integrative strategies and a holistic model to develop self-acceptance and freedom from painful thoughts and feelings.
Do you feel stuck and uncertain about the future, desiring to become the best version of yourself? I specialize in utilizing a strengths-based approach to treatment providing freedom from negative self-talk and past trauma. Anxiety, depression, life transition, and day to day stress can be hard to manage. Feelings of isolation and loneliness can become cumbersome and create a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. I utilize integrative strategies and a holistic model to develop self-acceptance and freedom from painful thoughts and feelings.
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Family Therapy
What do family therapists do?
A family therapist facilitates the process of understanding and improving how a family functions. The therapist will help family members develop empathy for one another. They’ll seek to understand existing patterns, misunderstandings, and conflicts that arise, in order to help the family arrive at a realistic, unified understanding and develop the coping skills they need to build stronger relationships.
How long does therapy for families take to work?
Therapy manifests differently in every family; a common time frame is 12 weekly sessions, but some families may see improvement after just a few weeks. Families should discuss their goals with the therapist at the beginning of the process and periodically revisit those goals to assess their progress together.
How can you encourage a family member to attend family therapy?
You can encourage family members to attend therapy by expressing with both love and concern the challenges you see and explaining how a therapist could help the family navigate those challenges together. An outside perspective can help everyone feel heard, get on the same page, and develop new skills. If family members are still hesitant, it may be helpful to emphasize that family therapy is short-term—it won’t last forever.
Is therapy for families effective?
Family therapy can significantly improve family dynamics and relationships. Research suggests that family therapy can help individuals understand their role in the family, communicate and solve problems together, reduce conflict and draw boundaries when necessary, and develop coping skills for stressors, major life changes, and mental or physical illnesses within the family.