Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care (VIPCare)
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, DMin, MSW, LCSW, LPC
Finances
Fees
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Check, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- Aetna
- Anthem | Elevance
- Beacon Health Options | Carelon
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- ComPsych
- GEHA
- Magellan
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Optima
- TRICARE
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
Qualifications
- Licensed Professional Counselor: Douglas Thorpe
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Virginia / 0701004496 Douglas Thorpe
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Marital and Premarital
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Behavioral Issues
- Bisexual
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Disturbance
- Equine-Assisted Therapy Provider
- Family Conflict
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Testing and Evaluation
- Thinking Disorders
- Trauma and PTSD
- Video Game Addiction
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Communities
Ethnicity
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Religion
Age
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Ethnicity
I also speak
Religion
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Christian Counseling
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- EMDR
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Integrative
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Relational
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Clergy Women's Group (Mondays)
Meeting for clergy women to share and create community centered on wholeness and personal development. For more information, please call VIPCare or write VIPCare's Executive Director, Douglas M. Thorpe, at dthorpe@vipcare.org
Expertise
Types of Therapy
Age
Group Meets
Location
VIPCare
2000 Bremo Road
Suite 105 (lower Level)
Richmond, VA 23226
Pre Marriage (Relationship Building) Retreats
Are you preparing for your wedding or in a longterm relationship and want to improve communication skills and strengthen your relationship. VIPCare is a local leader in pre-marriage preparation and offers a one-day intensive retreat (select Saturdays 10-4, visit the website for the full schedule www.vipcare.org or call 804-282-8332). The program is led by trained therapists---and explores you and your partners personalities and communication styles and helps develop communication and relationship skills that strengthen your partnership. The retreat uses the Enneagram spiritual inventory questionnaire.
Expertise
Group Meets
Location
Locations in Richmond, Charlottesville and Roanoke
903 Forest Avenue
Richmond, VA 23229
Location
Primary Location
Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care
2000 Bremo Road
105
Richmond, VA 23226
(804) 681-2511Email us