Adults Therapists in Braddock Road Metro, Alexandria, VA

I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping adults , adolescents, and children and their families deal with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. I have specialized experience working with grief, behavioral problems and anger management, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and identity and relationship issues. In addition to my private practice, I have experience working in outpatient clinics, university counseling centers, and schools.

I ascribe to a holistic, client-centered approach and work with children, teens and adults . I incorporate evidence based therapies while also addressing the mind-body connection. I believe the key to cultivating a successful therapeutic relationship boils down to empathy and being open-minded. All of my clients come from different walks of life. I have experience working with trauma, anxiety, military substance use, school social work, and community outpatient mental health. I approach my clients from a collaborative perspective, leveraging the client's strengths and resources to empower and foster change.

If you are looking for a holistic, empowering, healing centered space to work towards better understanding yourself, your patterns, and relationships in life, then I would be a fit for you. I have a passion for working with teens and adults yearning to heal from present stress such as trauma, grief, anxiety, and perfectionism. As well as challenges with intimacy, attachment styles, and self-concept. I will help you to weave together the fabric of the past, in order to find a path forward that feels healing and aligned with your highest self. Together, we will find a roadmap to your life that feels enlightening and full of direction.

I help kids, teens, and families who have been impacted by chronic or terminal illness, or the loss of a loved one. Throughout my experience working in a medical setting, I’ve seen firsthand the importance of expressing difficult experiences through art. Often, the deep, painful feelings of grief can’t be expressed through words. In art therapy, we don’t need words. I use my training and experience in art therapy and counseling to support you through these difficult life experiences.

Whether you're looking to set a new course in life, heal a wounded heart, break from unhealthy habits, I can teach you strategies and skills to become the person you want to be. Any positive change requires awareness, determination, and effort. At heartsandmindshealth, my goal is to improve your mental health and well-being. I take an insight-oriented, solution-focused approach to our work, After setting mutually-determined treatment objectives, I help individuals, couples, and groups achieve life goals, heal emotional wounds, become "unstuck", or break free from unhealthy patterns.

I offer clients a safe and non judgmental space to explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Sessions can be used to explore experiences in relationships, feelings of stress, desired changes, or symptoms associated with mental health. Clients who are interested in additional self-exploration can benefit from my talk-therapy approaches, as well as exploring emotions through the art making process. Art therapy is a creative option for clients who may feel stuck and can’t find the words to describe how they are feeling or for clients who desire visual and hands-on modes of processing.

My therapeutic relationship with you will quickly alleviate your emotional discomfort as well as help you grow as a person and develop new psychological abilities. I see your role as one in which you speak as freely as possibly. This is called “free-talk.” Important issues easily rise to the surface when we feel safe enough to talk freely about anything and everything. My job is first to listen and then to talk whenever I have a perspective that I believe will deepen your understanding of yourself. An effective therapeutic process brings about self-understanding that transforms your life and relationships.

Are you struggling at home, work, or in peer relationships? I specialize in helping people heal from any difficult situation, experience, or trauma. I'm here to support you into new insights and pathways for healing and growth. I work with adults who are looking to find integrative and holisitc methods to healing from painful experiences. Anxiety, trauma, depression, perfectionism, grief, and life transitions. I can support you to begin moving into a healed and deeply fulfilling life.

We look forward to helping you heal from your past hurts and live the life you were meant to! Treating individuals (adolescents & adults ), couples, and families dealing with: Trauma, Abuse, Dissociation; Addictions, Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) ; Body Image issues and Eating Disorders; Self-Harming behaviors, Anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders; Challenged family systems; Chronic illness; Dysfunctional relationships; Life transitions; Loss and bereavement; Relationship distress; Maternal Mental Health Issues; Self esteem; LGBTQ+ and sexual identity issues/struggles. Please see our website.

I provide couple counseling and individual psychotherapy to adults and adolescents with presenting concerns, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief and bereavement. In therapy, I focus on the individual strengths and wisdom of each person in an effort to support and assist their ability to make positive, effective, and mindful changes in their lives. Through a collaborative and caring relationship, I aim to create a safe space in which individuals and couples can increase their psychological insight, rework coping strategies, grieve losses, process traumas, and increase their overall well-being.

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.

Whether you want to lift your mood, improve relationships, overcome issues from your past, change behaviors that hold you back, or help your child to feel better - I look forward to helping you. Therapy can be a catalyst for change: to help you weather a storm, get out of a rut, tackle a challenge ... in short, to create the life you want to be living. I became a therapist, and created Catalyst Counseling Services, because I believe that when you're matched with the right provider - therapy works.

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.

With more than twenty years of experience, I have had the opportunity and privilege to participate in the hard work that individuals, couples and families have done to lead fuller and more satisfying lives. I work with adults and families dealing with anxiety, depression, adoption, trauma, divorce, deployment, grief and loss. I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Practitioner. In addition to therapy, I provide individual and group Clinical Supervision for Licensure.

People enter therapy for a variety of different reasons. You may be going through a difficult transition or grappling with life, relationship or work issues. You may be struggling with a mental health concern. You may be looking to promote personal growth or increase your own sense of well being. Whatever the reason may be, I can offer a confidential and safe environment to gain insight into your emotions and behaviors and take steps towards positive change in your life.

Life can be difficult. If you feel like you're overwhelmed, stressed and anxious, and can't seem to find happiness, I'd like to help you find some balance in your life. Your willingness to explore your thoughts and feelings about yourself and unhappy situations can be extremely empowering. I work in a collaborative and interactive manner to help guide you toward two primary goals--first, to identify and resolve the immediate problems presented, and then to develop psychological tools that can be used after completion of the therapeutic sessions.

Hi, I bring everything I can to my career as clinical psychologist. I got my work ethic from my parents who were immigrants to this country and who both worked in health care. I got my education from both the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University. I've gotten my experience from working with clients in a variety of settings including private practice, hospitals, community mental health centers and the DC Police Department. I will do my best to help you address the conflicts in your life that may be causing your anxiety, depression or relationship stress.