Therapists in Alexandria, VA
Andrey Fadeyev
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, SAP, CCTP
Verified Verified
Alexandria, VA 22314
Do you struggle with feeling disconnected from yourself and others? Do you put your needs at the bottom of the to-do list? Do you wonder if life should feel somehow better? Happier? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and uncertain about how they are supposed to manage their relationships, careers, and their lives. Pushing away the need to learn a more effective way to manage your needs can lead to long-term issues for your mind and body. We believe it shouldn’t be so hard to live a better life. At mentalmaptowellness we offer a custom approach for each of our clients.
Do you struggle with feeling disconnected from yourself and others? Do you put your needs at the bottom of the to-do list? Do you wonder if life should feel somehow better? Happier? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and uncertain about how they are supposed to manage their relationships, careers, and their lives. Pushing away the need to learn a more effective way to manage your needs can lead to long-term issues for your mind and body. We believe it shouldn’t be so hard to live a better life. At mentalmaptowellness we offer a custom approach for each of our clients.
Monocacy Therapy, LLC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist
Verified Verified
Alexandria, VA 22301 (Online Only)
I strive to help people manage distressing emotions so that they can live a fuller life. I am committed to providing quality mental health care in individual, family, and group settings. As a PhD-level anthropologist, I strive to learn as much as I can about your culture and worldview in order to tailor my therapeutic approach to your values, needs, and goals. I have effectively utilized cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, play- and art-based, and trauma-informed approaches to support individuals living with a variety of conditions and problems, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
I strive to help people manage distressing emotions so that they can live a fuller life. I am committed to providing quality mental health care in individual, family, and group settings. As a PhD-level anthropologist, I strive to learn as much as I can about your culture and worldview in order to tailor my therapeutic approach to your values, needs, and goals. I have effectively utilized cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, play- and art-based, and trauma-informed approaches to support individuals living with a variety of conditions and problems, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Dandelion Counseling & Care
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW, LCSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C
Verified Verified
Alexandria, VA 22314
We a group psychotherapy practice comprised of clinicians who provide compassionate counseling and therapy services, using a team approach, to meet the diverse needs of busy Washingtonians. We love to support families or people individually in their journeys to live healthier and more well lives. Our team includes graduate student interns, provisionally-licensed clinicians, fully licensed clinicians, and an executive leadership and life coach.
We a group psychotherapy practice comprised of clinicians who provide compassionate counseling and therapy services, using a team approach, to meet the diverse needs of busy Washingtonians. We love to support families or people individually in their journeys to live healthier and more well lives. Our team includes graduate student interns, provisionally-licensed clinicians, fully licensed clinicians, and an executive leadership and life coach.
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Olga A Haines
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA
Verified Verified
Falls Church, VA 22046
Increasing self-awareness is a key point to understanding causes of distress one might feel. This can be accomplished through identifying problems, detecting unhealthy patterns, looking into deeper meanings of the events and core values. Tapping into past experiences and the unconscious mind can bring an important insight necessary for gaining control over our life. I provide a warm, welcoming environment for my clients, so they feel safe to open up and find the answers that they need.
Increasing self-awareness is a key point to understanding causes of distress one might feel. This can be accomplished through identifying problems, detecting unhealthy patterns, looking into deeper meanings of the events and core values. Tapping into past experiences and the unconscious mind can bring an important insight necessary for gaining control over our life. I provide a warm, welcoming environment for my clients, so they feel safe to open up and find the answers that they need.
Olya Walker
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, IFS CER, IFIO
Verified Verified
Falls Church, VA 22046
Parenting, being a teenager, and being in a relationship can be some of the most fulfilling and challenging parts of life! I specialize in helping people, who are in strained relationships or struggling with trauma and other things that are private, find a new path. Life is full of difficulties, but often underneath it all is a lack of connection and belonging. I make it safe for teens and parents, adults and couples to get unstuck and talk about the real stuff that makes it difficult to live a satisfied life and thrive.
Parenting, being a teenager, and being in a relationship can be some of the most fulfilling and challenging parts of life! I specialize in helping people, who are in strained relationships or struggling with trauma and other things that are private, find a new path. Life is full of difficulties, but often underneath it all is a lack of connection and belonging. I make it safe for teens and parents, adults and couples to get unstuck and talk about the real stuff that makes it difficult to live a satisfied life and thrive.
Bella Sementsova Sterling
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, SEP, MA
Verified Verified
Falls Church, VA 22046
The focus of my work with clients is re-tuning one's somatic, relational, behavioral and cognitive patterns to health. Adverse childhood and life experiences often create survival strategies that keep us isolated from others, disconnected from our own feelings, frustrated and hopeless. I combine Somatic Experiencing approach, trauma expertise, Depth and psychoanalytic perspectives to help clients connect to their authentic selves and embrace a journey toward healing.
The focus of my work with clients is re-tuning one's somatic, relational, behavioral and cognitive patterns to health. Adverse childhood and life experiences often create survival strategies that keep us isolated from others, disconnected from our own feelings, frustrated and hopeless. I combine Somatic Experiencing approach, trauma expertise, Depth and psychoanalytic perspectives to help clients connect to their authentic selves and embrace a journey toward healing.
Best Life Behavioral Health
PhD
Verified Verified
Arlington, VA 22207 (Online Only)
Has therapy been a waste of time before? At Best Life, we help you start living the life you deserve! Jessica Jeffers LGPC works with mood issues and couples. Vicktoria Molokin LCPC works with life transitions and anxiety. Lindsey Weekley LCPC works with parenting, anger, bipolar, and more. Meredith Futernick, LPC works with anxiety, depression, and DBT. Kat Defilippi LPC works with mood issues, couples, anxiety, and career. Danielle Goldberg LCSW-C works with trauma, depression, and parenting. Stefanie Rider LPC does trauma and EMDR. We also offer life, career, and sex coaching!
Has therapy been a waste of time before? At Best Life, we help you start living the life you deserve! Jessica Jeffers LGPC works with mood issues and couples. Vicktoria Molokin LCPC works with life transitions and anxiety. Lindsey Weekley LCPC works with parenting, anger, bipolar, and more. Meredith Futernick, LPC works with anxiety, depression, and DBT. Kat Defilippi LPC works with mood issues, couples, anxiety, and career. Danielle Goldberg LCSW-C works with trauma, depression, and parenting. Stefanie Rider LPC does trauma and EMDR. We also offer life, career, and sex coaching!
Alexey Tolchinsky
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
6 Endorsed
McLean, VA 22101
Psychotherapy can be very helpful to many people who find life more difficult than they would like it to be. Starting psychotherapy is not easy and I will help you navigate appropriate treatment choices. When you come in, I will listen carefully to what you are going through. It is important for me that you feel safe and respected. Together we will try to understand your challenges and begin to make helpful changes. You will not be labeled. We will figure out the goals of treatment and work towards your goals at your own pace.
Psychotherapy can be very helpful to many people who find life more difficult than they would like it to be. Starting psychotherapy is not easy and I will help you navigate appropriate treatment choices. When you come in, I will listen carefully to what you are going through. It is important for me that you feel safe and respected. Together we will try to understand your challenges and begin to make helpful changes. You will not be labeled. We will figure out the goals of treatment and work towards your goals at your own pace.
Online Therapists
Kate Pozo
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Waitlist for new clients
Hello, My name is Kate Pozo, and I am a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma. I focus mainly on working with teenagers and adults with trauma backgrounds.
Hello, My name is Kate Pozo, and I am a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma. I focus mainly on working with teenagers and adults with trauma backgrounds.
Alan Von Kleiss
Psychologist, PsyD, ABPP
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
North Chesterfield, VA 23235
No matter how strong we are in meeting the challenges of life sometimes what happens to us heaps upon us a mountain of stress and we can do little but feel the pain of all that weight. Our goal is to help those we serve be effective in resolving personal pain through the empowerment of their natural strengths. Step by measured step, we work to build durability, and self-respect through skill building to overcome the pains that make life less enjoyable. We want to help you to move that mountain of pain one stone a time- by skillful means.
No matter how strong we are in meeting the challenges of life sometimes what happens to us heaps upon us a mountain of stress and we can do little but feel the pain of all that weight. Our goal is to help those we serve be effective in resolving personal pain through the empowerment of their natural strengths. Step by measured step, we work to build durability, and self-respect through skill building to overcome the pains that make life less enjoyable. We want to help you to move that mountain of pain one stone a time- by skillful means.
Lev Grotel
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C
Verified Verified
Sterling, VA 20164 (Online Only)
Accepting New Clients! Are you struggling in your relationship? Do you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or just stuck? It is easy to become annoyed with your partner or yourself, during these difficult times. Maybe you are concerned about communication, parenting, infidelity, or intimacy. Perhaps you want to learn from the previous relationships to improve current or future ones. If you are struggling with any of these types of issues, therapy and counseling can help. My approach, in working with couples and individuals, is empathic, non-judgmental, insightful, collaborative, engaging, and supportive.
Accepting New Clients! Are you struggling in your relationship? Do you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or just stuck? It is easy to become annoyed with your partner or yourself, during these difficult times. Maybe you are concerned about communication, parenting, infidelity, or intimacy. Perhaps you want to learn from the previous relationships to improve current or future ones. If you are struggling with any of these types of issues, therapy and counseling can help. My approach, in working with couples and individuals, is empathic, non-judgmental, insightful, collaborative, engaging, and supportive.
Vijay Singh
Pre-Licensed Professional, PsyD
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Richmond, VA 23235
Since youth, I wondered about human behavior and why people do what they do. To explore this interest further I took a class in comparative behavior and loved it. Since then I looked for opportunities to learn more about people, their actions, and their feelings while trying to find ways to help them improve their lives and feel better. I am lucky enough to be trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I used this advanced therapy process in California at the Anne Sippi Clinics in the service of those suffering severe adult psychopathology (mental health issues) early on in his career.
Since youth, I wondered about human behavior and why people do what they do. To explore this interest further I took a class in comparative behavior and loved it. Since then I looked for opportunities to learn more about people, their actions, and their feelings while trying to find ways to help them improve their lives and feel better. I am lucky enough to be trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I used this advanced therapy process in California at the Anne Sippi Clinics in the service of those suffering severe adult psychopathology (mental health issues) early on in his career.
Natalia Lugina Mauranne
Psychologist, MS, MA, PsyD
Verified Verified
Herndon, VA 20170
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Integrative Health Provider, and Certified Brain Health Coach who specializes in neuropsychological assessment and brain health consultations (ages 8 to 90+). My areas of professional expertise include ADHD, learning disorders and other neurodevelopmental conditions, TBI/concussion, dementia, stroke recovery, PTSD, and anxiety/depression. I conduct comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations for precision diagnostics and individualized treatment planning.
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Integrative Health Provider, and Certified Brain Health Coach who specializes in neuropsychological assessment and brain health consultations (ages 8 to 90+). My areas of professional expertise include ADHD, learning disorders and other neurodevelopmental conditions, TBI/concussion, dementia, stroke recovery, PTSD, and anxiety/depression. I conduct comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations for precision diagnostics and individualized treatment planning.
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Marriage Counseling Therapists
How does marriage counseling work?
Marriage counseling works by teaching couples concrete skills to communicate with one another and solve disagreements in healthy ways. A trained mental health professional works with both members of a couple to explore difficulties the couple may be having and helps them develop skills to address these matters. Couples who don’t have any difficulties but want to prepare for marriage may develop skills for the future.
How long does marriage counseling typically last?
Marriage counseling is a short-term form of therapy; the process may last between four and eight sessions. Other forms of relationship guidance from mental health professionals, such as couples therapy, are longer lasting, may focus on the past rather than just the present, and are tailored to the individual couple and their emotions, history, and patterns in the relationship. Couples therapy often lasts for 12 weeks or longer.
Is marriage counseling effective?
Marriage counseling helps many couples develop relationship skills that may not have been acquired or tested in a relationship; partners may be better able to communicate and address conflict following counseling. However, there are many different forms of marriage counseling, and this form of counseling does not have as strong an evidence base as other modalities such as couples therapy.
Is marriage counseling effective if only one partner wants to go?
Yes, marriage counseling can still be effective if one partner convinces the other to engage in the process. Of course, whether counseling is effective depends on the couple’s commitment to work on their relationship; however, the short-term, skills-based nature of marriage counseling makes it a relatively easy “ask” of a partner, and the hesitant individual may see its value once counseling begins.