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Are you looking for support in your life to help navigate a life obstacle or past pain? Sometimes seeking help is the best way to manage challenges and access your own strength and inner wisdom. At Charlottesville Counseling Services, I offer compassionate, supportive counseling for teens, parents, and adults throughout Central Virginia. I take a wellness-based, relational approach to help you overcome difficulties. Pam McIntire approaches therapy with compassion and understanding. She believes that a positive supportive relationship with a psychotherapist encourages clients to find their own wisdom. Pam works with women, men, young adults, parents and teens using a collaborative, wellness- based approach to promote growth and healing. [Read More]

Deborah Cohn, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who has been in private practice in Charlottesville since 1995. She completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, and her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Cohn also completed a clinical internship at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Her major interests are in attachment theory and family relationships; she has published articles in professional journals and taught courses at the University of Virginia in both areas. In her practice, Dr. Cohn’s treatment focus includes working with adults on a variety of issues including depression, loss, and relationship difficulties. A significant proportion of her clinical work is with faculty and staff members from the University of Virginia. She has considerable expertise working with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients. [Read More]

Jennifer Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has over thirteen years of experience in the field and has a solid foundation in utilizing techniques from Cognitive Behavioral therapy, Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution focused therapy. Jennifer is known for a warm, relaxed, empathetic approach to counseling; helping clients explore ways to make the changes in their lives that will allow them to look forward to the future with hope. Jennifer works with clients from a strength-based, positive and affirming approach. Jennifer earned her BS degree in Clinical Psychology from York College of Pennsylvania, and her MS degree in Mental Health Counseling from Springfield College in Massachusetts. Jennifer works with a wide range of issues including: depression, anxiety, unresolved emotional issues, grief and loss, relational/family concerns, and substance abuse/co-occuring disorders. Jennifer can also provides faith-based counseling to those individuals that want to incorporate this into their sessions. [Read More]

Alyson received her master’s degree from Valdosta State University in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her experience includes school counseling, providing intensive in-home services and working in a brief-therapy center conducting individual, couples, group and family therapy. Strengths-based, Narrative, Solution Focused and MRI are models she uses when working with clients. Her hobbies include writing, blogging, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends and watching movies. She believes that an individual can either “forget everything and run, or face everything and rise; the choice is their own” –Zig Zigler. She is passionate about working with women’s understanding of self-worth, cultural identity, identity within interpersonal relationships and motherhood. Alyson describes a client’s process as the overcomer’s journey, where the path on the road to progress can be a bumpy one, but it leads to resiliency, resourcefulness and perseverance. [Read More]

Alyson received her master’s degree from Valdosta State University in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her experience includes school counseling, providing intensive in-home services and working in a brief-therapy center conducting individual, couples, group and family therapy. Strengths-based, Narrative, Solution Focused and MRI are models she uses when working with clients. Her hobbies include writing, blogging, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends and watching movies. She believes that an individual can either “forget everything and run, or face everything and rise; the choice is their own” –Zig Zigler. She is passionate about working with women’s understanding of self-worth, cultural identity, identity within interpersonal relationships and motherhood. Alyson describes a client’s process as the overcomer’s journey, where the path on the road to progress can be a bumpy one, but it leads to resiliency, resourcefulness and perseverance. [Read More]