Therapy Services
Fairfax, VA Therapy & Counseling Services
Our experienced Northern Virginia Therapists offer effective treatments like DBT, EMDR, and Art Therapy to individuals, couples, families, adults, teens, and children. Our counseling services are available online and in-person in and around the Fairfax, Virginia community.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy may also be called talk therapy, psychotherapy, or counseling. Our therapists typically meet with clients once a week for focused, 45–50 minute sessions. Together, you and your therapist will develop a treatment plan centered on your unique needs, concerns, and goals.
Individual Therapy may help you:
• Manage anxiety, stress, and feelings of being overwhelmed
• Improve communication and strengthen relationships
• Build confidence, self-esteem, and a stronger sense of self
• Navigate grief, loss, and major life transitions
• Develop healthy boundaries and more effective coping skills
• Recognize patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
• Process past experiences, traumas, and potential triggers
• Navigate career pressures and workplace stress
• Explore the link between how you think, feel, and respond
• Build deeper self-awareness and inner clarity
Art Therapy
Art therapy uses creative expression as a way to explore thoughts, emotions, experiences, and challenges that may be difficult to put into words. Our therapists sometimes incorporate drawing, painting, collage, or other creative activities into sessions if you are open to it. No artistic experience or skill is needed to benefit from art therapy, and it can be great for kids, teens, and adults.
Art Therapy may help you:
• Express feelings that are difficult to put into words
• Explore emotions through color, imagery, and symbols
• Create a sense of safety and distance from painful experiences
• Externalize worries, fears, memories, or internal conflicts
• Notice themes and patterns that emerge throughout your art
• Use art-making as a calming and grounding practice
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy provides a supportive space for partners to better understand one another, work through challenges, and strengthen their relationship. Our therapists help couples identify patterns that may be creating conflict or disconnection while building healthier ways to communicate, solve problems, and navigate life together.
Couples Therapy may help you:
• Improve communication and help partners feel heard
• Navigate relationship conflicts in non-damaging, productive ways
• Rebuild trust after hurt, betrayal, or disconnection
• Strengthen emotional intimacy and feelings of closeness
• Better understand each other’s needs and perspectives
• Identify patterns that contribute to tension or resentment
• Navigate major life changes and shared stressors
• Establish healthier boundaries and relationship expectations
• Work through financial, parenting style, or career disharmonies
Family Therapy
Family therapy looks at the family as a whole, helping members understand how individual experiences, roles, and behaviors can affect the larger family dynamic. Our therapists create a supportive space to address challenges together, improve understanding, and develop practical tools for navigating relationships at home.
Family Therapy may help your family:
• Adjust to changes in family structure or household roles
• Address parenting challenges and generational trauma
• Support a child or teen experiencing emotional difficulties
• Navigate separation, divorce, blending families, or remarriage
• Understand how individual stress affects the whole family
• Work through sibling conflicts due to competition and jealousy
• Create clearer roles, routines, and expectations at home
• Strengthen problem-solving and decision-making as a family
• Manage grief, illness, caregiving, or other family stressors
• Build a more positive, supportive home environment
Integrative Therapy
Integrative therapy brings together techniques and ideas from many different therapeutic approaches to create a custom treatment protocol. Rather than relying on one method, your therapist can draw from a variety of evidence-based practices based on your needs, experiences, goals, and what feels most helpful at the time. This flexible, collaborative approach can be especially helpful for people who are analytical, self-aware, or already understand many of their patterns but struggle to break the cycle.
Integrative Therapy may help you:
• Move beyond highly structured treatment models that don't "fit"
• Expand upon traditional talk therapy if it hasn't been effective
• Find more creative, unique ways to process difficult experiences
• Work at your pace in a hybrid of styles that feels most productive
• Shift approaches as your needs, goals, or circumstances change
• Build a therapy experience that feels collaborative rather than prescriptive
EMDR Therapy
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a structured therapy that offers a powerful way to process trauma without relying solely on talk therapy. Your therapist will guide you through rapid eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation while you briefly focus on distressing memories.
EMDR therapy may help you:
• Reduce the frequency of painful memories or flashbacks
• Feel less reactive to triggers and reminders of the past
• Work through experiences that still feel unresolved or “stuck”
• Shift negative beliefs connected to PTSD and childhood traumas
• Resolve fear, shame, guilt, or helplessness tied to trauma
• Recognize how past experiences may be affecting you today
• Analyze the causes of seemingly unprompted emotions
DBT Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a structured form of talk therapy that promotes compassionate self-acceptance while teaching practical skills to help you actively change destructive behaviors and manage intense emotions. It focuses on four core areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This trusted form of psychotherapy can teach you to respond to everyday challenges with greater awareness, stability, and control.
DBT Therapy may help you:
• Manage intense emotions without feeling controlled by them
• Recognize emotional triggers and pause before acting impulsively
• Live "in the moment" and reject spiraling negative thoughts
• Tolerate distress without avoiding, shutting down, or reacting
• Replace self-destructive behaviors with positive coping strategies
• Ask for what you need more clearly and confidently
• Set boundaries while maintaining important relationships
• Cultivate a greater sense of calm, security, and safety
Child & Teen Therapy
Growing up comes with a lot of change. Kids, tweens, and teens may be navigating school stress, social pressures, growing independence, and the emotional and hormonal changes that come with puberty. Therapy gives them a supportive space to make sense of what they are feeling, talk through challenges, and build skills that can help them feel more confident and capable.
Child and Teen Therapy may help your child:
• Manage big emotions, mood swings, and irritability
• Address frequent tantrums, hitting, biting, and conflicts
• Cope with anxiety, perfectionism, and persistent worries
• Recognize school avoidance, test anxiety, and academic pressure
• Work through friendship changes, exclusion, and bullying
• Build confidence and address negative self-talk or body image
• Express needs, feelings, and frustrations more effectively
• Process grief, trauma, and difficult life experiences
• Identify emotions and develop healthy coping mechanisms
• Navigate their evolving sexuality and gender identity
Strengths-Based Therapy
Strengths-Based Therapy draws your attention to what is already working within you—your abilities, resilience, values, resources, and past successes—rather than focusing on perceived shortcomings. By identifying and building on these strengths you can approach challenges with greater confidence, develop a more balanced view of yourself, and create meaningful change from a place of capability rather than deficiency.
Strengths-Based Therapy may help you:
• Recognize strengths you may overlook or underestimate
• Build confidence in your ability to handle challenges
• Identify personal values, resources, and sources of support
• Develop greater resilience during difficult periods
• Reframe setbacks without defining yourself by them
• Challenge negative views of yourself or your circumstances
• Build on strategies and coping skills that already work for you
• Set goals that feel realistic, meaningful, and attainable
• Develop more balanced expectations of yourself and others
MARI Assessment
Mandala Assessment Research Instrument is a therapy tool inspired by the work of Carl Jung that uses mandalas, colors, and symbols to help you explore your thoughts and feelings without relying only on words. It can be especially helpful if you feel emotionally "stuck" or understand something logically but still feel emotionally unresolved. By making more instinctive visual choices, you and your therapist can explore patterns that may be harder to recognize through talk therapy alone.
MARI may help you:
• Identify subconscious patterns and emotions
• Gain insight into internal conflicts or areas of uncertainty
• Recognize personal strengths, needs, and sources of resilience
• Explore how you currently see yourself and the world around you
• Bring greater awareness to your motivations
• Uncover themes from the past that influence present-day choices
