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Posts by category

• Category: Addiction
  • Sober Curious? A.A. Isn’t the Only Way.
  • Processing and Healing from a Loss Due to Overdose
  • Recognizing Alcohol Awareness Month
• Category: Adolescents
  • Signs Your Child Is Being Bullied – And How You Can Help
  • 5 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Anxiety
  • Screen Time Affects Your Mental Health. Here’s How to Cope
  • 5 Surprising Misconceptions about School Counselors
  • 6 Signs Your Teen May Be Depressed
  • What Is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Is It Good for My Teen?
  • The Physical Side of Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
  • Cyberbullying: Four Ways to Intervene
• Category: Anxiety
  • Understanding Anxiety: What Does It Feel Like?
  • Embracing Anxiety Could Help You Manage It
  • Understanding PTSD: You Are Not Alone
  • 3 Breathing Exercises to Help Reduce Stress and Anxiety
  • Health Implications on Women Caused by Pandemic Stress
  • 4 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Practice Anytime, Anywhere
  • 60 Second Anxiety Break
• Category: Ashburn Office
  • Sunstone Counseling Wants You to Join Our Team!
  • Sunstone Counseling to Hold Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for New Ashburn Location
• Category: Awareness
  • Shining a Light on LGBTQIA+ Mental Health
  • Highlighting Mental Health Awareness Year-Round
  • What NOT to Say to Sexual Assault Victims
  • Supporting Your Transgender or Nonbinary Child
  • Social Work for Social Good: Celebrating National Social Work Month
  • Is It Time to Get Help for OCD?
  • Why It’s Important to Talk About Suicide
  • Recognizing Women’s Equality Day
  • Sunstone Applauds Launch of 988 Hotline for Mental Health Emergencies
  • Juneteenth: A Time for Reflection and Healing
  • The Power of Vulnerability
  • Infertility’s Impact on Women’s Mental Health
  • 5 Ways to Support Sexual Assault Survivors
  • Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month Shines a Light on Mental Health
• Category: BIPOC Mental Health
  • Understanding Race-Based Stress
• Category: Bringing Baby Home
  • Maintaining Relationship Health While Transitioning to Parenthood
• Category: Careers
• Category: Children
  • Empowering Your Child’s Journey: The Transformative Power of Therapy Outside of School
  • Children and Play: Four Reasons to Encourage It
  • 3 Therapy Approaches for Childhood Trauma
  • The Therapeutic Power of Play in Child Counseling
  • Providing Virtual Play Therapy via Online Counseling Sessions
  • Attachment: Exploring 5 Ways to Connect with Your Child Through Love
• Category: Counseling at Sunstone
  • 4 Reasons to Start Therapy in 2023
  • 7 Reasons to See a Sunstone Graduate Intern
  • Why Take a Mental Health Day?
  • Give Yourself the Gift of Counseling
  • 7 Ways Sunstone Counseling Can Help the Richmond Community’s Mental Health
  • Sunstone Counseling Expands Its Mental Health Services with New Richmond Location
  • Our COVID-19 Response
  • How trained is your counselor? The answer: Very.
  • The Initial Counseling Session [video]
  • 3 R’s in Counseling: Radical Acceptance, Resonance, Resource Building
• Category: Couples
  • It’s Time to Normalize Couples Therapy
  • What Is the Gottman Method Used in Couples Counseling?
  • Three Self-Care Tips if You’re Experiencing Divorce
  • 5 Reasons to Join a Divorce Support Group
• Category: Depression
  • October Is a Time to Focus on Mental Health
• Category: Divorce
• Category: Eating Disorders
  • 5 Tips on How to Manage Food Fears on Thanksgiving
  • Am I Hungry, Stressed, or Bored?
  • Tips to Navigate the Holidays While Staying in Eating Disorder Recovery
  • It’s Not Just About Weight: Atypical Anorexia
• Category: Family
  • How to Navigate Difficult Conversations this Holiday Season and Beyond
  • 3 Rituals to Help your Family Reconnect and Reset
• Category: Gratitude
  • Moving Beyond Gratitude to Self-Compassion
  • When Gratitude Gives Back: 5 Reasons to Practice Gratitude
  • Sunstone Counseling Wins 2021 Best of Falls Church Award!
• Category: Grief
  • Grief and the Holidays: Some Recommended Reading
  • Grief – a Journey Rather Than a Destination
  • On a Path Toward Different – Processing Grief and Loss
  • Grief, Loss & Life: A Group Process
  • Grief is Hard, but THIS is Harder
• Category: Group Counseling
• Category: Holiday
  • Gift Yourself a Different Kind of Holiday – With Less Stress and More Ease
• Category: Homepage
  • Embracing Change and Planting Seeds of Growth
  • Coping with Caregiver Stress: Self-care for Caregivers
  • A New Year Planning Guide For You
• Category: Individual Counseling
  • 5 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health
• Category: LGBTQIA+
  • How to Support Yourself When Coming Out
  • Using Your Pronouns Helps Create a Safe Space for Others
• Category: Men's Issues
  • Men, It’s Okay to Ask for Help (With Your Mental Health)
• Category: Military
  • Recognizing Mental Health Challenges in Military Families
• Category: Mindfulness
  • Understanding and Practicing Self-compassion
• Category: Modalities
  • Have You Tried Sandtray Therapy?
• Category: Multicultural
  • Holi Reflections: Mental Health Challenges in the South Asian Community
• Category: Parenting
  • Bringing Baby Home Workshop Dates Announced for Spring 2022!
• Category: Perinatal Mental Health
• Category: Play Therapy
• Category: Racial Stress
• Category: Richmond Office
• Category: Self-compassion
• Category: Stress
• Category: Suicide Ideation
• Category: Trauma
• Category: Uncategorized
  • Caring for Your Mental Health Is Like Learning to Swim
• Category: Wellness Tips
  • 101 Screen-free Activities to Boost Your Mental Health
  • Labor Day Brings New Beginnings
  • Managing Social Media During COVID-19
  • Defining Amidst Darkness
  • Why You Should Consider Starting Your Day with Your Counselor
  • 3 Important Mental Health Benefits of Physical Exercise
  • The Transformative Power of Therapy – It’s Not Just for Crises
• Category: Women's Issues
  • Standing Up for Gender Inequities on International Women’s Day and Beyond
• Category: Workshops

Counselors

• Tamica Northcutt
• Ronika Schmidt
• Eleanor Whitaker
• Katherine Kelly
• Matthew Blomme
• Allison Pond
• Jill Munyan
• Mary Stout Hess
• Nicole Cowans
• Rebekah Rexrode
• Lisa Huang
• Andrea Devooght
• Melissa Johnson, MS, NCC
• Laura Moon, LPC, NCC, CTP
• Callie Sapen, LPC, NCC
• Rachel Costlow, MA, NCC
• Margaret Lefbom, LCSW
• Tara Amor, MSW
• Morgan Canner, MA
• Courtney Beyer, MSW
• Yasmeen Richards, MS, MA, NCC
• Sara Bond, MA, NCC
• Carol S. Miller, LCSW (VA, MD, DC, AZ)
• Deniz Inanici, LPC
• Leah McNeil, MA, NCC
• Morgan Moore
• Ema Simpson, M.Ed.
• Kelsey Meltzer, MS
• Dee Hagan, MA
• Ashley Fischer, MS
• Tala Halik, MA
• Kate Schneider, M.Ed., NCC
• JaNae Messick, MA, NCC
• Scott Moshen, MS
• Rachel Stewart, MA, NCC
• Lana Milligan, MA
• Lauren McCall, LPC
• Briana Sinden, M.Ed.
• Vanessa Cheshier, LCSW
• Anna Blevins, M.Ed., NCC 
• Patricia Cisnero, LPC
• Betty Luo, LCSW
• Liz Rae, LPC
• Gabrielle Lipson, LPC
• Lauren Stuart, LPC
• Sean Maloney, LCSW
• Steffanie Kelshaw, LPC, CSAC
• Emily Louisos, LCSW
• Mathew Carl, MA
• Katherine Robinson, MA, NCC
• Dana Lougheed, MA
• Shelley Shadron, LPC
• Lauren Schlenger, LPC, ATR-BC
• Elizabeth Moyer, LPC(VA), LCMHC(NC), NCC
• Natalie Jensen, LCSW, CFRC
• Callie Dyer, LPC
• Crystal Davis, LCSW
• Jenny Smith, LPC, CFRC, NCC
• Melonye Cleveland, MA
• Gina Hafez, LPC, NCC, GCDF
• Caroline Crilley, LPC
• Elise Brown, LPC, NCC
• Emily Goff Trkula, LPC
• Jennifer Munroe, LPC, NCC
• Erika Davis, LPC
• Caroline Cook, Ed.D., LPC, ATR-BC
• Katie Clark, LPC, RPT, NCC
• Elizabeth Autrey, LPC, NCC
• Julia Ward, LPC, NCC
• Hugh Pinnock, LMFT
• Dan McDonald, LPC
• Melissa Johnson, LPC
• Ashley S. Davis, LPC
• Jordi Izzard, LPC, NCC
• Maya Georgieva, LPC(VA), LCPC(MD), NCC, ACS, CHST, Ed.D
• Aileen Elsaesser, LPC
• Anna Bailey, LPC
• Charlie Clark, LPC, NCC
• Amy Clay, LPC
• George Coyne, LCSW

Types of Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
• Adlerian
• Art Therapy
• Attachment Based
• Christian Counseling
• Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavioral (DBT)
• Existential
• Expressive Arts
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Family Systems
• Feminist Theory
• Gestalt
• Gottman Method
• Humanistic
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Marital/Premarital Counseling
• Mindbody
• Mindfulness Based
• Motivational Interviewing
• Multicultural
• Narrative
• Person Centered
• Play Therapy
• Polyvagal Theory
• Psychodynamic
• Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
• Relational-Cultural
• Sand Tray Therapy
• Sex Therapy
• Solution Focused
• Strengths Based
• The Daring Way™
• Trauma Focused

Specialites

• Anger Management
• Anxiety / Panic
• Attention Disorders (ADHD)
• Autism / Neurodivergence
• BDSM/Kink
• Bipolar/Mood Disorders
• Body Image
• Career Counseling
• Chronic Illness/Pain
• Conduct and Impulse Control
• Consensual Polyamory/Non-Monogamy
• Depression
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Regulation
• Family Dynamics
• Gender/Sexual Identity (LGBTQIA+)
• Grief and Loss
• Infidelity
• Life Transitions and Adjustment
• Obesity
• Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
• Parenting
• Perinatal / Postpartum
• Racial/Cultural Identity
• Relationship Conflict
• Religion and Spirituality
• Self-esteem / Personal Growth
• Self-harm / Suicidal Ideation
• Separation and Divorce
• Sex and Intimacy
• Social Skills
• Stress and Overwhelm
• Substance Misuse
• Trauma and PTSD