Catholic Counseling in Virginia
Live through your values,
not your anxiety.
You’re looking for therapy that aligns with your faith and values.
Living with anxiety, major stress, or OCD can feel like climbing a mountain without a trail. You pray for healing and work towards change, but sometimes feel like you’re not sure where to go next. Some days, it feels easier to stay where you are.
You’re getting by, but deep down, you know you’re made for more.
Therapy is a place to find rest from our worldly journey and restoration for the work ahead. Through prayer and work, Catholic counseling can be an invaluable asset to your mental and emotional health that upholds your faith-based values and guides you to where you want to go.
You wonder if therapy is the right fit for you, and how it could help.
There are a wide range of reasons for meeting with a Catholic counselor, including mental and emotional distress, relational stressors, or difficulty with managing your thoughts. These experiences can take many forms, including:
Anxiety in daily life that leads to restlessness, unease, and exhaustion
Depression that may lift every so often, but more days than not, it’s a burden
Intrusive thoughts, obsessive thinking, and rumination that never quite get you to the solutions or relief that you so desperately need
A heavy heart that feels the weight of parental responsibilities with a family you’ve always desired, but need help to engage with on a deeper level
Consulting a therapist who upholds the teachings of the Catholic Church can provide you with effective mental and emotional techniques rooted in research and experience that align equally well with our faith. These strategies are designed to endure and evolve, benefiting you beyond your current sessions and fully integrate with your spiritual life.
Beginning again can be one of the hardest steps to take. You don’t need to go alone.
If this is your first time in counseling or your third try this year, it’s more than okay to wonder what to expect next.
In our work together, we focus in on where you’ve been and where you want to go. We take time for understanding your life up to now and holding space for introspection on your experience. We move forward with this insight through committed actions aimed at developing your emotional regulation, mental coping strategies, and perspective.
Our work together will provide the opportunity for you to grow in:
Self-awareness and ability to notice, identify, and reflect on emotions
New ways to develop patterns of thought and self talk that are oriented towards your values and life goals
Lifestyle changes oriented towards your greatest purpose and meaning
Deeper integration of your faith with your interior world of thoughts, emotions, and beliefs
Let’s work together.
Whether you’re near or far, there is an option for you.
Telehealth counseling offers the opportunity for clients all throughout the commonwealth of Virginia to receive quality therapy from the comfort of their own home.
Serving adults, young adults, and adolescents ages 16+
Offering sessions between 9am and 5pm Monday - Friday
All sessions provided virtually from a HIPAA compliant secure platform
Virtual sessions offer the same high-quality care as in-person sessions, ensuring you get the help you need, when you need it.
If you have further questions about telehealth, read more here.
Maggie Maxwell, Resident in Counseling
Understanding. Compassionate. Rooted in Truth.
If you’re ready for therapy grounded in evidence-based practice and deep spiritual truths, there’s room for you here.
Read more about Maggie’s specialties and modes of therapy.
More about “Ora et Labora”
Pray (Ora)
We pray for what we need because our Father “desires to give us good things” (Matthew 7:11) and calls us to “let your requests be known to God” (Philippians 4:6-7), including our prayers for health & well-being.
Prayer serves as a fundamental principle in our work that opens us to being more able to acknowledge and receive God’s living word. An open, honest, and healthy relationship with our Father is one of the greatest tools to bring into or develop further in therapy.
Work (Labora)
We are called to complete the work God has placed in front of us by engaging in meaningful activities and fulfilling responsibilities, “committing to the Lord whatever you do” (Proverbs 16:3).
The work of therapy occurs in part during session, but in a larger way through the life lived between. This foundational principle of work aligns with the belief that our life’s meaning and purpose is found when we “know, love, and serve God” (CCC 1721).
Always, we begin again.
— St. Benedict