Joan Normandy Dolberg, LPC, NCC, Director,  employs a compassionate, strength-based approach in her work with individuals, couples and families. She began working with teens and their families in 1971 as a Learning Disabilities specialist and she has extensive training and personal experience in the field of adoption. As the adoptive mother of three children and as the survivor of the loss of a child, she will share your pain and provide compassion and guidance through difficult times in your life.

Joan has been in clinical practice since 1998 and is both a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. Joan is Past-President of the Virginia Association of Clinical Counselors (VACC), and is Chairperson of Public Awareness Committee of the  American Mental Health Counseling Association (AMHCA).

Joan participates with several insurance companies.

 Julie Edstrom, PhD, LPC received her doctorate in Counseling from George Mason University. She has worked as a school counselor in a variety of programs before entering private practice in 2004.

Dr. Edstrom is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a certified Solution Oriented Brief Therapist and specializes in grief, trauma, and post traumatic stress disorder.  She also has extensive experience with clients with chronic illness and homicide survivors.  Dr. Edstrom works with all ages both individually and in groups. 

Armaria J. Fleming, LCSW graduated with honors from Virginia    Commonwealth University, earning both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Social Work and has over 13 years  clinical experience.

Ms. Fleming previously worked as a therapist in a school program for teenage mothers and their babies, a runaway shelter for adolescents, and in community mental health. She is committed to providing individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, clinical case management and crisis intervention services to youth, adults and families coping with mental, emotional and behavioral health issues with sincere compassion. Utilizing a strengths-based perspective, she has incorporated creativity, therapeutic interventions and artistic expression to assist clients in reaching their full potential. Specialized areas of interest and expertise include working with youth and adults who are experiencing problems related to self-esteem and self-efficacy, depression, mood disturbance, sexual abuse and victimization, adjustment issues, school problems, learning difficulties, anger management, anxiety, issues of grief and loss and teen pregnancy/teen parenting issues.

Ms. Fleming has experience working with youth and adults from various cultural backgrounds and diverse populations

Armaria participates with several insurance companies. 

 Mary Ann Sprouse, LCSW, CSAC is a highly qualified specialist in the field of Substance Abuse. She is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor who provides individual, family and group counseling and Parent Substance Abuse workshops, to clients dealing with various addictions. She has performed assessments and provided individual and group counseling to court referred adults, teens and families through Fairfax county’s ASAP and SAFE programs.

In addition Mary Ann has worked for 6 years at George Mason University administering assessments and providing group counseling for students referred for alcohol and/or substance use. She is a current lecturer for INOVA Hospital's Reality Check program, an active member of the Fairfax County Task Force to Reduce Underage Drinking, and co-chair of the Task Force sub-committee focusing on substance use by 18 -21 year old individuals.

 Mary Ann participates with several insurance companies. 

Julie Day, LPC is a  

a dedicated and passionate therapist who works with adolescents and adults. She provides individuals and families touched by anxiety, depression, and drug addiction with strategies to help them cope with life’s difficulties. She treats all her clients with compassion, empathy, dignity and respect and enjoys working with individuals and families struggling with mental illness, and/or addiction. She employs cognitive behavioral, short-term focused counseling and other treatment modalities and offers gender, life skills education, and mental health/addiction relapse, and recovery groups.

Ms. Day participates with several insurance companies.

Elizabeth Reed, LCSW, is a clinical social worker with  12 years post masters degree experience in a variety of settings. She holds a masters degree  in social work from New York University and spent two years at Yale Psychiatric Institute working with hospitalized adolescents and their families.  The last four years she practiced in the United Arab Emirates where she worked with adults and families. She has extensive experience working with multicultural clients, issues of depression and anxiety, transitional issues, and woman's issues, as well as adult ADHD, and issues related to parenting challenging children. She is a compassionate, thoughtful therapist who  utilizes a combination of cognitive/behavioral and solution- focused approaches to problem solving with clients, working from a client's strengths and helping them build from there. She has lived and traveled the world as the wife of a foreign service officer. These experiences have enriched her life and her work with clients immensely.

Liz participates with several insurance companies. 

Judith Elliott, LPC, graduated from Marymount University with  a Masters Degree in Counseling. She has 12 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and groups. Her prior experience includes the Whitman-Walker Clinic, home-based therapy and private practice.

Judi's approach to treatment is to help her clients develop a cognitive awareness of the patterns of thinking and feeling which affect their behavior. She helps them recognize that the ability to change requires the acceptance of their feelings, thoughts and memories and the realization that the past is not their enemy.  Mindfulness and compassion then become partners in change and new behaviors can begin to emerge. Through mindfulness they gain the ability to handle fear, anger, depression and anxiety and the improvement of life skills. This also results in a better understanding of goals and values and the ability to attain them. 

Judith's engaging clinical style and approach to treatment is indeed an asset and greatly benefits the clients she serves.

Judi participates with several insurance companies.

Ingrid practices the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy and received her training from the Gottman Institute in Seattle that integrates leading-edge research on marriage into practical, down-to-earth counseling for couples, individuals and families.Using the Gottman method, Ingrid offers unique skills and knowledge for couples with attention deficit, hyperactivity, depression, and/or anxiety challenges in their relationships.  She is a graduate of Drs. Edward Hallowell and John Ratey’s course in “ADD in 2005” and of Dr. Daniel Amen’s “Breaking Free” program in anxiety and/or depression.  She has extensive experience in stepfamily transitions and is herself a stepparent.

Ingrid received her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from The George Washington University and her Bachelor’s in Nonviolent Conflict and Change from Syracuse University.  She began her work in problem solving and conflict management in 1991 and clinical work in 1999.

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