Therapists Beginning With V in Vermont

I enjoy psychotherapy with adults. I have experience in mood and anxiety disorders, significant life transitions, grief and loss, spiritual issues, trauma and the psychological impact of medical issues. Prior to licensure as a psychologist, I practiced as a marriage/family therapist for over 30 years.

I believe psychotherapy offers an opportunity to know one's self with greater compassion and awareness. As an insight-oriented therapist, I am interested in exploring each client's history (family, relational, psychological) as well as identifying the emotional and cognitive habits that may be interfering with relationships, work, creativity, and/or a sense of direction or efficacy in one's life. Through this collaborative process, we can address specific emotional problems (depression/anxiety), seek resolution of a painful or traumatic personal history, and/or work towards making a change in one's relational or work life.

Engaging collaboratively with you, and your unique background of joys, wounds, circumstances, and aspirations, I draw on a of variety of forms of therapy to meet you where you are and foster the growth and change you desire. I have experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, grieving, relationship, family, parenting, co-parenting, health, sex, divorce, communication, domestic violence, financial, life transition issues and more. Combining compassion and directness, I weave psychoeducation into our work, believing it's helpful to understand what is happening in our mind and body as we cope with life's stressors, and how therapy helps.

I entered my doctoral program in counseling psychology with the aim of integrating what I had already learned through study of meditation and Buddhist practice with the technology of Western concepts of wellness and health. I came out with a deep appreciation for the many ways that people arrive at a counselor's door and the many ways they leave. Throughout our lives we constantly face new challenges, leaving home, coupling, parenting, careering, retiring all present challenges we've never faced before. At any point along the way we may be called on to marshal new resources or adapt old strategies that are no longer working.

Hi. I am here to help! I work with individuals and couples to break through the obstacles that seem to be holding them back in life and in their relationships. Life’s too short to be unhappy, unsure, or unfulfilled. I will help you learn and develop better ways to handle the issues that are standing in the way of your goals or feeling better. There are different things that you can do that will nurture your spirit, help you overcome personal challenges, and allow you to achieve your individual life goals. I cater to each of my client’s personal needs in order to unlock their full potential. I look forward to partnering with you.

My name is Hilary Viens and I am a clinically licensed social worker (LICSW) and therapist in Northern Vermont. I have 17 years of experience working in clinical social work settings and I am passionate about the field of mental health. I obtained a Master’s degree in clinical social work from Smith College in 2005. Since obtaining my MSW, I have worked in many settings providing crisis stabilization, therapeutic services, supervision, and community advocacy. In addition, I have specialized training in working with folks experiencing the following: intimate partner violence (IPV), histories of incarceration, and/or extreme states.

I am a Vermont rostered psychotherapist based at St. Johnsbury Psychology Associates in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. I specialize in working with adolescent and adult patients who struggle with anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, substance use disorders and major life transitions. I use an integrative model of psychotherapy utilizing psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral techniques. I hold a master’s degree in social work from the University of New Hampshire.

If there is something you want to change about your life - you can! It just takes some knowledge and some planning. Today there are solution focused therapies that many people have used to deal with depression, anxiety, and addictions. Our counseling specialties include screening and treating all of the above and help you come up with a plan to have a brighter and happier future.

**OFFERING TELETHERAPY. MEDICAID, BC/BS, MVP, OPTUM, PRIVATE PAY.**Hi! I'm Barbara. I have 15+ years of experience treating mental health, SUD, and Dual Diagnosis in a variety of settings such as inpatient, MAT, PHP, and IOP. I work with those who are experiencing anxiety/depression whose world may have become smaller and has begun to disengage with those around them. In addition I specialize with those that have been dually diagnosed and have found that their lives have become unmanageable as a result of their mental illness/substance use. I also address co-dependency, anger management, and communication skills.

Psychotherapy is very rewarding and challenging work. Anyone seeking to make themselves healthier needs to know that and be open to change. Despite how difficult it is to work through the issues that disrupt our lives, the reward is learning that life is a process worth living and improving on a continuous basis. I treat people with trauma issues, depression, anxiety, PTSD, career moves, family issues, OCD, addictive behaviors, relationship problems and interpersonal unhappiness often beginning with providing psycho-educational information such as personal boundaries, basic human rights, safety, and coping and advocacy skills.

We all deserve a space to be heard as we navigate the challenges and complications of being human. Therapy allows us to gain insight into our behavioral patterns, motivations, hopes, and fears. I believe it is this deeper understanding of self that can empower growth and healing. My goal as a therapist is to provide a setting in which my clients feel safe and supported to explore their emotional experiences with curiosity and compassion.

I am a Licensed Psychologist Master with over thirty years experience in working with adult survivors of childhood abuse and neglect. Depression, anxiety, or just a sense of life feeling less than what it could be, may be signs of childhood abuse or neglect. I help people navigate the sometimes choppy waters from their past in order to be fully living in the present. I am trained by Pia Melody in Post Induction Therapy for addressing the effects of codependence: low self esteem, impaired boundaries, knowing who you are , and difficulties with self care. Trauma creates addictions creates relational problems.

Most mental suffering we endure (if not due to present grief and loss) arises either from our fervent attempts to resolve or answer uncomprehended emotional needs, or because we never learned to endure and adapt our unruly interior lives to the world around us. I help individuals to feel better by attending to all that they are in the moment, as a way of understanding how they have come to be themselves -- and how who they are is at odds with what they want to be and feel. I am trained both in "classical" and contemporary psychoanalysis (IPA member) and in Columbia's pioneering Program in Narrative Medicine, where I now teach.

Psychotherapy, at its best, helps you accept yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, your virtues and vices. I'll help you harness your healthy drive to grow and grapple with your inhibitions--those old coping strategies that kept you balanced but now impede your growth. Gradually, through understanding, through self-knowledge, you'll shake off their yoke, and more freely cultivate your relationships and enjoy your own chosen work. In this way, I'll help you give your past its rightful place, not as the prison it has been, but as the prologue to your authentic creative life.