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As a South-Asian therapist, I bring warmth, curiosity, and a deep respect for your unique story, drawing from both my professional...
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As a South-Asian therapist, I bring warmth, curiosity, and a deep respect for your unique story, drawing from both my professional training and my lived experience to create a space where you feel truly seen and supported.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 4 years of experience supporting individuals through life transitions, anxiety, grief, mood disorders, trauma, and substance use. I specialize in working with adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected—from themselves, their relationships, or their sense of purpose. Many of my clients come to therapy seeking clarity, healing, and a more grounded sense of self. Together, we work to understand patterns that no longer serve them, build resilience, and cultivate meaningful change.
I earned my Master’s in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and I ground my approach in evidence-based practices such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and dialectical behavioral therapy. I support clients in slowing down, tuning into their emotions and patterns, and making intentional choices.
I know that reaching out for support can feel vulnerable, and I want you to know you are not alone in whatever you are facing. If you’re ready to explore your story and take steps toward healing or growth, I’d be honored to walk alongside you. When you are ready, I invite you to take that next step—we will move forward at your pace together.
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My philosophy is that the therapeutic relationship is critical; genuine interaction is the key to gaining trust and connection....
My philosophy is that the therapeutic relationship is critical; genuine interaction is the key to gaining trust and connection.
Teresa George is a Licensed Professional Counselor in both West Virginia and Virginia. She has 25+ years of experience, providing individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and psychological screening to adults, seniors, adolescents, and children. She’s worked with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other types of trauma as well as those with adjustment issues, parent-child relational issues, and mood disorders. She continues her education by attending cultural diversity, LGBTQ+, mindfulness techniques, autism, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused CBT courses.
Teresa approaches clients without judgment, working at their pace and giving them space to explore their lives and improve areas of their lives that are unsatisfactory. Depending on the client, she will use CBT, CCPT, motivational interviewing, parenting skills, brief strategic family therapy, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
Teresa knows that seeking help can be challenging, even frightening. She recognizes that seeing a therapist is a vulnerable process. She will provide a safe place, free from judgment. She is confident that she has the skills, empathy, and experience to support and help you in your personal journey. Be good to yourself; please schedule an appointment today!
Ben Clark currently holds a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) license in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With over 10 years of e...
Ben Clark currently holds a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) license in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With over 10 years of experience supporting adolescents and families as they are managing issues such as depression, anxiety, life transitions, individual, family and personal relationship issues. As an undergraduate, he felt it was important to combine his two passions of psychology and outdoor recreation by completing a specialty double major program in Psychology and Human Services and Recreation Management with an emphasis on Therapeutic Outdoor Recreation. This dynamic path of study served to reinforce his appreciation for people to cultivate an understanding of the importance of their basic needs, environmental needs, sense of security, relationship, emotional belongingness, feelings of esteem, and a sense of ability for growth.
After achieving a M.S. in Professional Counseling, he went to earn a Post Graduate Trauma Certificate. Through this education, and work experience, he has come to appreciate the value in cultivating personal awareness for clients and empowering them to become their own agent of change toward their life mission. His focus is centered around the importance of the therapeutic alliance to ensure a collaborative setting is available for people to feel safe to identify personal problems that they are struggling with and to move forward by recognizing barriers, emotional attachments and challenges they uniquely face. His integrated approach focuses on the use of strength based, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, solution focused and emotionally focused methods that provide a therapeutic space for creativity, flexibility and awareness that is necessary to best meet the needs of every unique individual and couple.
Recognizing a client’s specific needs and fostering their own growth by recognizing their strengths and providing a forum to recognize how to create effective solutions to address issues in their life is the cornerstone to being able to not just manage, or cope, but to ultimately learn how to thrive. Ben is grateful for the opportunity to be able to sit, listen, support, challenge and encourage everyone to become an agent of change toward the life they know they need and want.
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My competency and preferred modality is based in cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and some DBT skills. I like to utilize this combination because it helps clients understand their thoughts and emotions and how they can influence their behavior. Through this process, I try to understand what clients want to see in their life and help them manage their intense feelings and emotional responses.
I like to share my screen and educate clients on some of the following CBT tools, such as:
I can tell a client is making meaningful progress in individual therapy when they are able to come back, session after session, and confidently report and process their ability to use skills, strategies, and routines they have been working on in treatment.Also, when they are using terminology they learned in sessions and demonstrating increased awareness, ability to utilize the skills to regulate, and ability to manage whatever they are working on in treatment goals.
Clients can use skills, strategies, and routines they have been working on in treatment, utilizing the skills to regulate and manage whatever they are there working on in treatment goals.
I encourage clients to supplement their work in individual therapy with positive, healthy, and effective activities, or what we refer to as pleasant events, in their daily lives. We can discuss activities, practices, routines, and habits that provide life satisfaction and help them feel like they are working toward long-term life goals. We will often look at a balanced life wheel that I have been known to share.
With Thriveworks, Online therapy is an effective alternative to in-person therapy services in which a client can speak to a Thriveworks therapist remotely via online video conferencing. Online sessions are just as effective as in-person treatment, but they can also provide added benefits like reduced travel time, saving money on transportation or childcare, and increased access to care.
Online therapy works much like traditional in-person therapy but takes place through secure video conferencing. Clients can attend Online therapy from any safe place they choose that has access to the internet, whether that be their home or another easily accessible place. Like in-person treatment, a therapist will work with their client to address their concerns, create goals, and establish an effective treatment plan.
There is no best option for online therapy—instead, it’s best to focus on finding a provider that meets your specific needs and with whom you can form a professional connection with.
Yes, online therapy is just as effetive for many clients as in-person sessions.
Online therapy can last for a few months to years depending on the goals and symptoms of the client. The treatment process will be unique to each client and lend itself to their specific concerns, which means that the time it takes to treat them will always be different. Timing is also up to the client themselves; they are free to stop therapy whenever they please, especially if they feel they have reached their goals and addressed their concerns.
At Thriveworks, we accept most major insurance plans, allowing many clients to pay as little as $0–$50 per session with their co-pay. We also offer self-pay options for those out-of-network or without insurance. Self-pay rates for talk therapy range from $160 to $240 for intake sessions and $135 to $195 for follow-ups, depending on your state. For psychiatry services, self-pay intake sessions are $255–$375, with follow-ups ranging from $175–$300, also varying by state. More information on current self-pay costs is available on our pricing page.
To best address varying needs and preferences, Thriveworks Woodbridge offers online counseling opportunities. Online counseling—otherwise referred to as e-counseling and virtual therapy—improves access to mental health services and also offers a more convenient counseling option, as it allows individuals to work with a counselor or therapist right from home.
“When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” –Fred Rogers
The two main online counseling options at Thriveworks Woodbridge, VA are telephone counseling and video counseling (of which we will delve into later). Both of these options will enable you to work with your counselor virtually, and from the convenience of home, work, the coffee shop down the stress, your car, or anywhere else you choose.
To schedule an online counseling appointment at Thriveworks Woodbridge, simply give our office a call. Or, if you’d prefer to schedule an in-person counseling appointment, we can help with that too! Our counselors are happy to work with you in-office or online. The choice is yours.
As we just mentioned, there are two main online counseling options at Thriveworks Woodbridge: telephone counseling and video counseling. Both are effective options, which allow you to work well with your therapist and make important progress in your sessions. Here’s a little bit more about each:
The therapists and counselors at Thriveworks Woodbridge are happy to work with you in online counseling over the phone or over video. Also, if you try one option out and then decide that it might not be right for you, that’s okay—it happens. Sometimes you have to engage in telephone counseling and/or video counseling to best determine which option works for you.
Just like in-person counseling, online counseling can help people address a wide array of mental health challenges and other life issues. These include symptoms of a mental health disorder such as depression or anxiety; family conflicts; relationship issues; grief and loss; stressors in childhood or teenhood; stress management; and so on. This means that you can participate in the following services online at Thriveworks Woodbridge:
This list does not completely represent the services offered in online counseling at Thriveworks Woodbridge, VA—but it’s a good start! If you’re looking for mental health services and you’re interested in the comfort, convenience, and flexibility offered in online counseling, consider reaching out to Thriveworks Woodbridge today. We can get you set up with a skilled, caring provider.
The counselors and therapists at Thriveworks Woodbridge are always ready to get to work. They’re dedicated to helping people live happy, successful lives, whether that means helping someone better understand and manage a mental illness, supporting them during a tough loss, assisting them with relationship issues, or providing their professional help with another challenge.
If you’re ready to schedule an online counseling appointment, just give our office a call. We can also answer any questions you might have about online counseling and help you work through any reservations you might have about mental health help, online or otherwise. Additionally, when you call to schedule your appointment, your scheduling specialist will explain the flexible counseling options that are available to you: these include counseling sessions in the evenings, on the weekends, or in the daytime. It’s about whatever works best for you!
The online counselors at Thriveworks Woodbridge are ready to get to work. Are you? We look forward to your call!
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