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Karla Albracht, MSW, LCSW is a bilingual (English/Spanish) licensed clinical social worker. Mrs. Albracht works primarily with pre-school through elementary-school children who are experiencing depression, anxiety, abuse/neglect, aggression, maladaptive social skills, developmental delays, learning disorders, and maladjustment to divorce and blended families. Mrs. Albracht is trained in both play and sand therapy. She strongly promotes a collaborative approach with parents. In addition, Mrs. Albracht counsels adults on a short-term basis through various Employee Assistance Programs. Please contact her at 703-352-8538 to schedule an appointment.
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Jean Atkinson, MA, LPC is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience as a therapist working with adults, couples, families, and young children. She has a master's degree in Counseling Psychology and Child Development, with further graduate training in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her specialties include depression and anxiety, relationship and parenting issues, grief and loss, and divorce and remarriage. She can be reached at 703-865-6931.
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Lori L. Bain LPC, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor who works with individuals, families, and children. She a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Ms. Bain's specialties include working with school age children, couples issues, personal stress, grief, and depression. She also has significant experience working in the areas of play therapy, and with children who have developmental delays. Ms. Bain can be reached at 703-352-9847.
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Heidi Brennan, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker. She has twenty years of experience working with families, couples and individuals. She works with adults, children, adolescents and families. She has experience in treating adults and children who have experienced trauma, depression and anxiety, divorce, blended family issues, grief issues, school behavior problems and couples issues. Ms. Brennan is the Clinical Director for both the Alternative House Shelter for Runaways and Homeless Teenagers and the Alternative House Residential Shelter for Young Mothers located in Vienna, Virginia. To schedule an appointment with her call 703-352-8536.
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Dian Epp, LCSW, CAC is a licensed clinical social worker and a certified addictions counselor. She has extensive experience working in various settings including inpatient/outpatient substance abuse, employee assistance, schools, community mental health and adolescent treatment programs. Ms. Epp specializes in providing cognitive behaviorial and family systems therapy to families, couples, individuals and adolescents with a wide range of problems and offers services that emphasize the individual strengths of each client. She is trained in EMDR which is an effective therapy method for those who suffer from anxiety or the effects of trauma, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an effective therapy to assist with building interpersonal skills and emotional regulation.
Dian can be reached at 703-352-9007.
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Sheila B. Finnerty, RN, LCSW is a licensed clinical therapist and a registered nurse with over 16 years experience working with individuals, couples and families, as well as expertise working with older adults and their families. She enjoys working with clients on a wide variety of issues to help them lead more fulfilling lives and have more satisfying relationships. She has significant experience working with other cultures and client populations. Her treatment modalities include cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, employee assistance counseling, family therapy and solution-focused therapy. She designs a treatment approach which is best suited to the needs of the client. Sheila may be reached at 703-352-8534.
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Jennie McKinney, MSW, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience working with couples, families, individuals and children. Her focus is on treating families with special challenges, such as abuse, trauma, mental illness, and learning disabilities. Jennie is also experienced in treating anxiety, depression, adhd, mood disorders and emotional regulation problems/anger issues with all developmental levels. She has experience with inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities, various county social service agencies, and in military social service agencies/contract settings. She currently works with couples, families and children, but she also has extensive group treatment experience. Jennie uses a variety of modalities to ensure that her clients' needs are met and their goals are obtained. She can be reached by calling 703-352-9255.
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Connie Nielsen, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker who works with individuals, couples and families. In her 15 years of clinical experience, she has dealt with depression, stress, marital and family conflict, grief and many other issues. She has worked at the Women's Center of Northern Virginia, an adolescent crisis center and started her private practice in 1993. Connie believes that the primary goal of therapy is to assess the need of the client, identify the problems and to develop a plan to encourage change. Mrs. Nielsen is a member of NASW. She can be reached at 703-383-0115.
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Eileen O'Beirne, MS, LPC, LMFT specializes in working with individuals, families and children. Ms. O'Beirne has experience working with families with a wide range of problems and has expertise in treating families in crisis. In addition, she is a certified mediator. She can be reached at 703-352-9254.
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Clarissa Rathbone, M.Ed., LPC specializes in family functioning and relationships across the lifespan, from adolescence to end of life issues. A former teacher, writer, editor, and hospice bereavement counselor, Clarissa knows that life, and simply being human, often presents challenges. She has extensive experience in assisting individuals, couples, and families to not just survive the difficult times but also to thrive and live a more fulfilling and richer life. Trained in family systems and strength-based brief psychotherapies, Clarissa works in a collaborative way with clients to explore with them options or solutions for issues related to parenting, marital or family conflict, separation and divorce, chronic or terminal illness, grief and loss, loneliness, estrangement, anger, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, co-dependence, and immigration. Clarissa may be reached at 703-865-6932.
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Nancy Shands, MS, LPC, LMFT is a therapist with experience in a wide variety of issues and a diverse client population. A great deal of her work is focused on loss and its impact on a person, couple or family. Although she is a published author, consultant and lecturer in the field of chronic and terminal illness and in death and bereavement, her interest in loss expands beyond these fields. People grieve the loss of "what might have been" in many of life's situations that bring them to therapy, and she is adept at helping them move on from that point. She has extensive training and experience in EMDR, and is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Ms. Shands can be reached at 703-352-9003.
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Kristin Sorenson, LPC is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in working with adolescents, families and individuals. She has experience working with adults, teens and children in crisis in addition to individuals experiencing trauma, depression, family and parenting issues and personal stress. She has worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient mental health settings including long-term residential programs for children and adolescents, and short-term crisis care. She uses a solution-focused, strength-based approach in working with individuals and families. She can be reached at 703-352-9896 to make an appointment.
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Kathy Stevens, MA, LPC is a licensed clinical therapist who works primarily with children and their families. She serves preschool through middle school age children who experience adjustment issues, anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, or developmental delays. She uses play therapy and experiential therapy, and strongly encourages family participation in the counseling process. Ms. Stevens also works with adults and older teens, using a solution-focused approach to address a variety of life issues. Ms. Stevens can be reached at 703-352-8537.
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