Domestic Abuse Therapists in South Riding, VA
Life does have many stressful issues like loss, relationship dynamics, family conflict, work concerns, divorce, and medical crisis. These types of stressors greatly influence our ability to cope with our everyday responsibilities. My focus in therapy is to identify your current stressors and how they can either be resolved or develop the ability to decrease the severity of symptoms. Together, we will develop goals and steps tailored to you.
Life does have many stressful issues like loss, relationship dynamics, family conflict, work concerns, divorce, and medical crisis. These types of stressors greatly influence our ability to cope with our everyday responsibilities. My focus in therapy is to identify your current stressors and how they can either be resolved or develop the ability to decrease the severity of symptoms. Together, we will develop goals and steps tailored to you.
Trauma often results in patterns of chronic shame, people-pleasing, anxiety, depression, and difficulty setting boundaries — whether connected to childhood abuse, identity-based stress, military experiences, or the cumulative impact of living in environments that were not supportive.
I am trained in EMDR and use it as a primary trauma treatment approach to help reprocess distressing experiences.
My counseling orientation is evidence-based, humanistic, and person-centered. My PhD is in Sociology, specializing in gender, which informs how I understand identity, culture, and social systems in clinical work.
Trauma often results in patterns of chronic shame, people-pleasing, anxiety, depression, and difficulty setting boundaries — whether connected to childhood abuse, identity-based stress, military experiences, or the cumulative impact of living in environments that were not supportive.
I am trained in EMDR and use it as a primary trauma treatment approach to help reprocess distressing experiences.
My counseling orientation is evidence-based, humanistic, and person-centered. My PhD is in Sociology, specializing in gender, which informs how I understand identity, culture, and social systems in clinical work.
If you are struggling with painful emotions, interpersonal problems, substance use challenges, or difficult life transitions, I am here to help. You will find that I work hard to understand you and to help you better understand yourself and your relationships. I believe that every person has an inner potential for healthy growth and development, and my role as a counselor is to facilitate that growth. I provide a safe and nonjudgmental space to share and better understand your thoughts, feelings, and challenges. I see clients by telehealth throughout Virginia.
If you are struggling with painful emotions, interpersonal problems, substance use challenges, or difficult life transitions, I am here to help. You will find that I work hard to understand you and to help you better understand yourself and your relationships. I believe that every person has an inner potential for healthy growth and development, and my role as a counselor is to facilitate that growth. I provide a safe and nonjudgmental space to share and better understand your thoughts, feelings, and challenges. I see clients by telehealth throughout Virginia.
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I am a founding partner of Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education, LLC. Gil Institute is a private group practice committed to providing evidence- and practice-informed mental health services for traumatized children, youth, and adults. My clinical career has focused on facilitating emotional healing for at-risk children and adolescents exposed to multiple traumatic experiences. I have worked in various clinical and educational settings in the Northern Virginia area providing guidance and support to bilingual and bi-cultural children (and families) experiencing socio-emotional and educational challenges.
I am a founding partner of Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education, LLC. Gil Institute is a private group practice committed to providing evidence- and practice-informed mental health services for traumatized children, youth, and adults. My clinical career has focused on facilitating emotional healing for at-risk children and adolescents exposed to multiple traumatic experiences. I have worked in various clinical and educational settings in the Northern Virginia area providing guidance and support to bilingual and bi-cultural children (and families) experiencing socio-emotional and educational challenges.
My specialties include abuse, sexual assault, and medical and healthcare trauma, and my role is to help you find “aha moments,” flashes of realization that what you already know can change your overall and daily life.
Openings & sliding fee available - Relationships with ourselves, our bodies, and with others may be complex, nuanced, and hard to explain. We may keep parts of us private and avoid invalidation. We may even feel like loving relationships are hard to come by. At times, our minds may be playing familiar tunes: I’m unlovable, I cause problems, I don’t matter, I can’t trust others/myself, or I’m not enough. Even with validation, change may feel elusive. Therapy can lead to hope and sustainable transformation. It can help with changing patterns, boundaries, self-compassion, ending power struggles, trust, and reimagining the future.
My specialties include abuse, sexual assault, and medical and healthcare trauma, and my role is to help you find “aha moments,” flashes of realization that what you already know can change your overall and daily life.
Openings & sliding fee available - Relationships with ourselves, our bodies, and with others may be complex, nuanced, and hard to explain. We may keep parts of us private and avoid invalidation. We may even feel like loving relationships are hard to come by. At times, our minds may be playing familiar tunes: I’m unlovable, I cause problems, I don’t matter, I can’t trust others/myself, or I’m not enough. Even with validation, change may feel elusive. Therapy can lead to hope and sustainable transformation. It can help with changing patterns, boundaries, self-compassion, ending power struggles, trust, and reimagining the future.
Welcome to a compassionate and transformative therapeutic journey. I offer a cognitive behavioral modality of therapy that is enriched with a person-centered approach, ensuring that each session is tailored to your unique needs. My goal is to empower you by actively involving you in your own healing process, creating a warm and supportive environment where you feel heard and valued. One of my passions is helping clients understand how previous trauma impacts the brain. With extensive experience working with individuals affected by trauma, I provide invaluable insights and therapeutic techniques to support your healing and recovery.
Welcome to a compassionate and transformative therapeutic journey. I offer a cognitive behavioral modality of therapy that is enriched with a person-centered approach, ensuring that each session is tailored to your unique needs. My goal is to empower you by actively involving you in your own healing process, creating a warm and supportive environment where you feel heard and valued. One of my passions is helping clients understand how previous trauma impacts the brain. With extensive experience working with individuals affected by trauma, I provide invaluable insights and therapeutic techniques to support your healing and recovery.
Her main focus areas include LGBTQ+ issues, interpersonal violence, trauma of all kinds including complex, couples, and grief.
Jessie Wedell (she/her) is passionate about working with individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds and identities who may face unique challenges with those intersections. With a strong foundation in social science, she recognizes the sociocultural influences that impact mental health. She also has an extensive background in dance and yoga and strongly believes in somatic interventions as a form of trauma recovery and to build a healthy connection with ones body. Her goal is to offer a validating space to guide clients through their journeys of healing, helping them reclaim their strength, resilience, and hope for the future.
Her main focus areas include LGBTQ+ issues, interpersonal violence, trauma of all kinds including complex, couples, and grief.
Jessie Wedell (she/her) is passionate about working with individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds and identities who may face unique challenges with those intersections. With a strong foundation in social science, she recognizes the sociocultural influences that impact mental health. She also has an extensive background in dance and yoga and strongly believes in somatic interventions as a form of trauma recovery and to build a healthy connection with ones body. Her goal is to offer a validating space to guide clients through their journeys of healing, helping them reclaim their strength, resilience, and hope for the future.
My practice encompasses all core mental health issues, with specialized expertise in supporting the military population, addressing addiction, healing with domestic violence, and working with survivors of child abuse.
In our first session, you can expect a warm, non-judgmental space where I'll listen closely to understanding your concerns, goals, and experiences. We'll begin exploring your strengths and discuss how working together can support your journey toward health.
My practice encompasses all core mental health issues, with specialized expertise in supporting the military population, addressing addiction, healing with domestic violence, and working with survivors of child abuse.
In our first session, you can expect a warm, non-judgmental space where I'll listen closely to understanding your concerns, goals, and experiences. We'll begin exploring your strengths and discuss how working together can support your journey toward health.
I specialize in high-conflict relationships and emotional abuse recovery, with 20 years of clinical experience helping individuals and couples navigate crisis and long-term change.
Fascinated by all things brain related, I am a BCIA Certified Neurofeedback Clinician. I am passionate about couples work and have advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. I specialize in healing long held emotional wounds, resolving family and relationship issues, as well as teaching you strategies to cope with life's stressors.
I specialize in high-conflict relationships and emotional abuse recovery, with 20 years of clinical experience helping individuals and couples navigate crisis and long-term change.
Fascinated by all things brain related, I am a BCIA Certified Neurofeedback Clinician. I am passionate about couples work and have advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. I specialize in healing long held emotional wounds, resolving family and relationship issues, as well as teaching you strategies to cope with life's stressors.
The effects of narcissistic abuse and relationship trauma often extend far beyond the relationship itself.
Many of the people I work with have spent years trying to push through the pain on their own. They've learned to function despite the anxiety, self-doubt, or emotional exhaustion. Rather than focusing only on symptom management, EMDR allows us to address the experiences that continue to shape how you think, feel, and relate to yourself and others.
The effects of narcissistic abuse and relationship trauma often extend far beyond the relationship itself.
Many of the people I work with have spent years trying to push through the pain on their own. They've learned to function despite the anxiety, self-doubt, or emotional exhaustion. Rather than focusing only on symptom management, EMDR allows us to address the experiences that continue to shape how you think, feel, and relate to yourself and others.
Coercive control and narcissistic abuse rewire how you see yourself, until your own judgment feels unreliable.
Together we rebuild trust in your own perception, untangle the patterns you keep repeating, and move forward with clarity. My work sits where counseling, forensic evaluation, and family mediation meet, so I understand both the inner recovery and the legal terrain survivors often cross. You are not broken. You are patterned, and patterns can change.
Coercive control and narcissistic abuse rewire how you see yourself, until your own judgment feels unreliable.
Together we rebuild trust in your own perception, untangle the patterns you keep repeating, and move forward with clarity. My work sits where counseling, forensic evaluation, and family mediation meet, so I understand both the inner recovery and the legal terrain survivors often cross. You are not broken. You are patterned, and patterns can change.
For those carrying anxiety, depression, trauma, or the wounds of narcissistic abuse, your resilience reflects a quiet strength deserving of compassion and respect.
You deserve to live a life rooted in balance, purpose, and fulfillment. The pace and pressures of our society can make it difficult to navigate life with intention and clarity. Therapy creates space to honor your experiences, remain present with yourself, and move thoughtfully toward what lies ahead. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, or other obstacles to well-being, psychotherapy can support you in rediscovering your natural capacity to heal, adapt, and thrive.
For those carrying anxiety, depression, trauma, or the wounds of narcissistic abuse, your resilience reflects a quiet strength deserving of compassion and respect.
You deserve to live a life rooted in balance, purpose, and fulfillment. The pace and pressures of our society can make it difficult to navigate life with intention and clarity. Therapy creates space to honor your experiences, remain present with yourself, and move thoughtfully toward what lies ahead. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, or other obstacles to well-being, psychotherapy can support you in rediscovering your natural capacity to heal, adapt, and thrive.
· Marginalized people who want to increase self-worth, self-esteem, and self-empowerment
· Women of color, indigenous populations, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community
· Survivors of trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, and harassment
· People living with medical conditions, grief and loss, ambiguous loss, and intergenerational trauma
I am a black, queer, cis woman who is passionate about working with the queer and BIPOC community through an intersectional lens to explore, process, and heal trauma.
I am a body neutral, harm reduction-focused, sex positive therapist. I approach therapy from a compassionate and nonjudgmental space that creates a trauma-informed, intersectional, and exploratory environment for clients dealing with depression, anxiety, complex trauma, intergenerational trauma, and feelings of ambiguous grief and loss.
I am licensed in MD, VA, and DC.
· Marginalized people who want to increase self-worth, self-esteem, and self-empowerment
· Women of color, indigenous populations, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community
· Survivors of trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, and harassment
· People living with medical conditions, grief and loss, ambiguous loss, and intergenerational trauma
I am a black, queer, cis woman who is passionate about working with the queer and BIPOC community through an intersectional lens to explore, process, and heal trauma.
I am a body neutral, harm reduction-focused, sex positive therapist. I approach therapy from a compassionate and nonjudgmental space that creates a trauma-informed, intersectional, and exploratory environment for clients dealing with depression, anxiety, complex trauma, intergenerational trauma, and feelings of ambiguous grief and loss.
I am licensed in MD, VA, and DC.
I help individuals heal from domestic abuse, infidelity, betrayal, and unhealthy relationship patterns while building confidence, emotional resilience, and self-worth.
Have you spent years in therapy but still struggle with loving yourself and feeling like you’re not enough? For over a decade, I’ve been committed to alleviating human suffering by helping individuals navigate self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety, and challenges with self-love & confidence so they can perform better at work and create fulfilling relationships on their own terms. While problems are a natural part of the human experience, I believe prolonged suffering does not have to be. My perspective is shaped not only by clinical training but by lived experience.
I help individuals heal from domestic abuse, infidelity, betrayal, and unhealthy relationship patterns while building confidence, emotional resilience, and self-worth.
Have you spent years in therapy but still struggle with loving yourself and feeling like you’re not enough? For over a decade, I’ve been committed to alleviating human suffering by helping individuals navigate self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety, and challenges with self-love & confidence so they can perform better at work and create fulfilling relationships on their own terms. While problems are a natural part of the human experience, I believe prolonged suffering does not have to be. My perspective is shaped not only by clinical training but by lived experience.
Ellie Mental Health Manassas - Keira Cale
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA
8 Endorsed
Online Only
I provide both individual and group therapy, and I'm most experienced with trauma recovery, with a particular emphasis on survivors of domestic violence.
My expertise and focus includes working with those who have experienced trauma in all forms. I have worked with individuals that have experienced PTSD, complex trauma, abuse and neglect. I have a special focus on working with victims of domestic violence, either ongoing or recovering.
I take most commercial insurances and Medicaid plans.
I provide both individual and group therapy, and I'm most experienced with trauma recovery, with a particular emphasis on survivors of domestic violence.
My expertise and focus includes working with those who have experienced trauma in all forms. I have worked with individuals that have experienced PTSD, complex trauma, abuse and neglect. I have a special focus on working with victims of domestic violence, either ongoing or recovering.
I take most commercial insurances and Medicaid plans.
She has a special interest in working with adults who suffered childhood abuse and neglect.
I am a certified hypnotherapist,certified in Quitsmart smoking cessation,and a master practitioner of Neurolinguistuc programming. I have special skills in working with trauma,inner pain,and original pain work. Group therapy program offered to grow beyond childhood wounds and limitations to reclaim hidden and underdeveloped parts of the self.
She has a special interest in working with adults who suffered childhood abuse and neglect.
I am a certified hypnotherapist,certified in Quitsmart smoking cessation,and a master practitioner of Neurolinguistuc programming. I have special skills in working with trauma,inner pain,and original pain work. Group therapy program offered to grow beyond childhood wounds and limitations to reclaim hidden and underdeveloped parts of the self.
Sports psychology (equestrian sports in particular), infertility, anxiety, narcissistic abuse recovery, trauma, and executive or entrepreneur coaching are special interests.
Are you in an unhealthy relationship? Is it hard for you to set boundaries? Do you have difficulty making decisions? Doubting yourself or feeling like an imposter can make tough times (and decisions) even tougher. I can help you explore and develop a greater understanding and appreciation of your authentic self. Our bodies do keep the score, so it’s vital to connect mind and body. Unprocessed trauma can block that connection. Once our nervous system is regulated, everything seems to fall into place: Anxiety decreases, as does pain perception, while resilience is strengthened and cognitive and creative capabilities are enhanced.
Sports psychology (equestrian sports in particular), infertility, anxiety, narcissistic abuse recovery, trauma, and executive or entrepreneur coaching are special interests.
Are you in an unhealthy relationship? Is it hard for you to set boundaries? Do you have difficulty making decisions? Doubting yourself or feeling like an imposter can make tough times (and decisions) even tougher. I can help you explore and develop a greater understanding and appreciation of your authentic self. Our bodies do keep the score, so it’s vital to connect mind and body. Unprocessed trauma can block that connection. Once our nervous system is regulated, everything seems to fall into place: Anxiety decreases, as does pain perception, while resilience is strengthened and cognitive and creative capabilities are enhanced.
Sometimes a person experiences life events that bring up distressing symptoms experienced in both mind and body that prevent functioning or the ability to move forward towards goals and dreams. Often these distressing symptoms are tied to past trauma that will continue to hold that person back unless the trauma is identified and healed. Often clients report symptoms of anxiety and/or depression that are resistant to medications, and experience emotional overwhelm that interferes with their functioning.
Sometimes a person experiences life events that bring up distressing symptoms experienced in both mind and body that prevent functioning or the ability to move forward towards goals and dreams. Often these distressing symptoms are tied to past trauma that will continue to hold that person back unless the trauma is identified and healed. Often clients report symptoms of anxiety and/or depression that are resistant to medications, and experience emotional overwhelm that interferes with their functioning.
Accepting New Clients. Night and weekend appointment(s) available. Dr Herring was was raised on the North Shore of Oahu. It is her true belief that, with support, we are capable of creating the change that we wish to see in our lives. It takes courage to seek help during life's difficult moments. If you are feeling lost, confused, neglected, or overwhelmed with stress, addiction, loss/grief, trauma or fear of the unknown, it is my role is to walk along with you in this journey to guide and navigate through life stressors, reprocess distressing experiences, and increase self-awareness.
Accepting New Clients. Night and weekend appointment(s) available. Dr Herring was was raised on the North Shore of Oahu. It is her true belief that, with support, we are capable of creating the change that we wish to see in our lives. It takes courage to seek help during life's difficult moments. If you are feeling lost, confused, neglected, or overwhelmed with stress, addiction, loss/grief, trauma or fear of the unknown, it is my role is to walk along with you in this journey to guide and navigate through life stressors, reprocess distressing experiences, and increase self-awareness.
In life, we all break down sometimes. There are moments when we need to pause and take care of ourselves. But that doesn’t mean we’ve lost our true value or who we really are. That part of us is still there. It may have just been hidden for a while. I hope to support people who want to reconnect with that part of themselves. Even if it takes time, that is okay. Your true colors can shine again.
In life, we all break down sometimes. There are moments when we need to pause and take care of ourselves. But that doesn’t mean we’ve lost our true value or who we really are. That part of us is still there. It may have just been hidden for a while. I hope to support people who want to reconnect with that part of themselves. Even if it takes time, that is okay. Your true colors can shine again.
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Domestic Abuse Therapists
What are the most effective ways to recover from domestic abuse?
Leaving an abusive relationship requires tremendous courage, so survivors in treatment should recognize that they have already completed the most important step. Still, the trauma of physical or emotional abuse can be difficult to process and overcome. Therapy can help survivors process trauma, grief, and difficult emotions, treat relevant mental health symptoms, and create a new framework for boundaries and relationships in the future. For some, support groups can also be an invaluable outlet for healing.
When should an individual seek help for domestic abuse?
Victims of intimate partner violence should seek help immediately. It can take substantial time, planning, energy, and courage to leave an abusive relationship, but starting the process—by seeking therapy, calling the domestic violence hotline, or simply confiding in a loved one—will help them get there. Those who have left abusive relationships but haven’t sought treatment can also greatly benefit from therapy to process and heal from the experience.
What are the consequences of staying in an abusive relationship?
Remaining in an abusive relationship has serious repercussions. In addition to the ongoing threat of physical danger and emotional abuse, research shows that intimate partner violence is associated with a range of mental health disorders including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and substance abuse. Therefore it’s important for individuals in an abusive relationship to seek help as soon as possible.
How can you get domestic abuse treatment for someone else?
It can be very complicated to identify and leave an abusive relationship; barriers include the threat of violence, financial instability, and family pressures. Those concerned about a loved one in an abusive relationship should talk to them about the situation, provide them with resources such as the domestic violence hotline, and introduce the idea of seeing a therapist due to their concern for the person’s safety and well-being.