Grief Therapists in 22314

Kelly Clemente is a Resident in Counseling with 8 years of experience in the mental health field. She is passionate about helping adolescents, adults, couples, and families address their unique challenges and live more fulfilled lives. Kelly specializes in treating special needs children, drug-addicted youth, pregnant teens, struggling birthmothers, eating-disordered adults, grieving widows, sexual trauma survivors, and victims of domestic violence. Kelly utilizes multiple treatment approaches including mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy.

Welcome! I'm an integrative therapist and work with teens and adults experiencing challenges related to trauma, grief/loss, anxiety, depression, LGBTQIA2+ identities and relationships, and intercultural experiences and family dynamics. It can feel really hard and isolating to navigate these challenges alone, especially in a world in which we're experiencing so much pain, violence, and uncertainty about the future. Working with a therapist can create a caring, compassionate space in your life to explore your inner and outer worlds, nurture your resilience, and cultivate joy and healing.

I am licensed psychotherapist with more than twenty years of experience working with adults and adolescents offering counseling and therapy for a variety of issues to a diverse client base in Virginia and Washington, DC. I provide treatment for individuals, couples and families, and lead a number of therapy groups. My work combines cognitive behavioral techniques with other effective and evidence-based therapies, such as DBT, to help you to actualize your strengths and manage your behaviors in a safe, supportive and solution-focused context. I have extensive experience working with life's transitions, aging, illness, and loss and grief, particularly with the LGBT community.

Tara has experience working with adolescents & adults contending with an array of mood disorders, challenges related to grief & loss, self-efficacy, stress & anger management, PTSD & conflict resolution. She has worked extensively with individuals and families experiencing trauma, abuse & domestic violence. Tele-health & face to face modalities are provided.

I strongly believe my clients are the experts in their own lives and can experience healing and personal growth through regaining self-efficacy in their own abilities. My goals are to provide an empathetic, genuine, and constructive space for growth and healing. I utilize evidence-based modalities of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and motivational interviewing to assist clients in addressing negative thought patterns, gain acceptance towards themselves, and increase their tool box of helpful coping skills.

Life doesn’t often go according to our plans. Unmet needs and expectations can leave deep and invisible scars. That doesn’t mean you’re broken, it means you’re human. I work with individuals to increase self-acceptance and self-awareness, build empathy, and improve the quality of their relationships. My hope is to support your journey to express, explore, and discover who you are and who you want to be.

I enjoy working with clients from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. I believe that each person who seek counseling is ready for change. It is my role as a counselor to partner with the client on their journey to wholeness and healing by using interventions based on comprehensive assessments to determine the client's therapeutic needs.

Every person experiences challenging times in life and making the decision to seek professional counseling can be helpful. These last two years during the pandemic have been particularly hard and have magnified the things that may not be working in our lives. However, I believe, difficult life situations can lead to positive change. I view therapy as a collaborative approach where you, the client, set the goals and I, the therapist, guide you with my professional knowledge in finding solutions, feeling relief, and making a better life.

Sometimes we think of our life as a story with a beginning, middle and end. But life rarely feels this simple and linear. Our experiences change the way we view ourselves and the world around us especially when we endure pain and loss; our identity shifts, and the story we've told gets tangled up. It is normal to become disoriented and scared when we feel ourselves changing. Maybe we seem more lonely, less fulfilled, or lost. I see it as my responsibility to be a partner/guide for you so you feel more oriented, less alone, more able to recognize your innate strengths and ability to heal and to ultimately author a story of growth.

For faster response call and leave a message. I work with motivated adults who are experiencing challenges that impact their ability to live a satisfying life. I assist clients to develop and practice appropriate boundaries, skills, and gain personal insight. Therapy offers an opportunity to understand more about yourself assisting you to make changes that lead to greater happiness and satisfaction. I offer Psychotherapy to address: Relationship Issues, Depression, Anxiety, Work/Home Stress, Life Transitions, Grief and Loss, Post Abortion Healing, Guilt/Shame, Healing from Current and Past Trauma, and Interpersonal Relations.

Hello! Always working together, we create experiential plans and varied, flexible routines that are specifically tailored to your needs & goals; while also navigating through topics and challenges such as: Grief, Loss, Complex Post-Traumatic Growth/Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Interpersonal & Intrapersonal Struggles, Parent Education, Affirming Neurodiversity Interventions, LGBTQ+ Identity Exploration, Systemic Oppression & Multicultural Diversity, etc. by using a myriad of cutting edge, personalized, evidence-based treatments to reduce internalizing (i.e. depression/anxiety) & externalizing (substance abuse/acting out) challenges.

Do you need help with depression or anxiety? Are you struggling to recover from grief or loss? Have you experienced trauma? I would like the chance to listen to your story and help you build resilience and confidence. Instead of over-focusing on what's difficult in your life, we will work on developing your strengths and building on your best qualities. By finding and enhancing your inner resources you can better manage stress, depression, and the challenges that life presents. You can develop the positive-thinking skills that will help you manage better. We will develop your own step by step action plan to make change happen.

Grief is a natural response to a bereavement or a loss of any kind, but the distress you understandably feel today need not be incapacitating or unnecessarily prolonged. My approach will help you come to terms with your new reality, while retaining a healthy and positive psychological relationship with the loved ones you have cherished, but who are now no longer physically present. We will work together to establish new strategies for living a fulfilling and joyful life - a life that can be continually enriched by the happy memories of times gone by. A life of gratitude, rather than regret.

Hello! Thank you for making the first step towards healthier living. It can feel intimidating to enter into a therapeutic relationship so I appreciate you entrusting me in this process towards healing, self awareness, growth, and change. I am passionate, engaging, caring, supportive, non-judgmental, warm and trusting clinician that allows you to feel safe. I am dedicated to helping people navigate life challenges by developing tools needed to cope with these difficult life moments.

Therapy can be a place to find support, hope, and practical skills. I use a sense of humor and empathy in sessions to help build a positive and therapeutic relationship. I believe that we all need someone to talk with who will really listen in a nonjudgmental and supportive way. Working together, I will provide tools to help reduce feelings of anxiety or depression, increase self esteem, or help get through challenging life events.

I enjoy working with clients of all ages and genders who are coping with anxiety, ADHD, co-dependency, low self-esteem, addiction, depression, life transitions, grief, identity and existential issues. I also have extensive experience working with people who are struggling with ambivalence surrounding change, goal-setting, and motivation.

Finding the right therapist can feel like an exhausting search. If you are depressed, anxious, troubled in your relationships, coping with grief, struggling with past or current trauma, feeling hopeless or angry, or just trying to understand yourself better, I'm here to help. I believe we all have the answers we need inside us, but sometimes it takes working with a neutral observer to find those answers. Together you and I will work toward increased understanding of and ways to cope with whatever problems you would like to discuss. Therapy isn't necessarily easy, but it can help.

As parents, you establish the teaching, training and expectations for your child in the first 7 years of their life. After that, you live out what you set up. Parenting is one of the most rewarding and difficult journeys in a person's life and at times, it may become overwhelming. I provide parenting consultations, as well as, counseling, support and education to new and expectant parents.

I am aware of the potential setbacks and implications of neglected substance abuse, mental health issues, and their impact if left untreated. While working in a variety of settings, I’ve seen first hand how they affect the individual, community, and the immediate family. I am fully committed to advocate for those in need of the highest quality of treatment services. I am a firm believer that when an individual is given the opportunity to tell his/her story and given a chance to heal and develop effective coping skills, they too, can find a road to restoration.