Main Street Counseling seeks to enhance the quality of life for all members of the greater metropolitan area through the provision of specially tailored professional services designed to enhance the personal, interpersonal, spiritual, and vocational development of community members. Respect for diversity and a commitment to individuals' personal growth are guiding principles in the work we do.
Main Street Counseling office should be your first call for any issue related to your emotional state, dealing with stress, handling a crisis, or coping with transitions in life such as death, separation & divorce, parenting, and diagnosis of a chronic illness. Clients often come for help with concerns both large and small, including depression, anxiety, eating disorder, chemical use, assault or abuse, sexual identity, relationship conflicts, marital infidelity, grief, academic stress, and family issues. Sometimes individuals’ come in just to get an outside opinion or feedback on their current situations knowing that they will get non-judgmental treatment and expert advice. Main Street Counseling can also be a referral resource when situations require other types of care or medication from a psychiatrist.
Counselors act as facilitators to help clients better understand themselves and the world around them. Open and honest discussion of feelings, behaviors, relationships and life experiences with a trained counselor in a safe, confidential environment helps clients learn to make healthy choices and achieve more satisfying life goals.
Counselors work with clients to help them understand and explore how their feelings and thoughts influence their choices, decisions, and actions. Our counselors help clients develop more effective coping and problem-solving skills.
Counseling is a collaborative process that involves the development of a unique, confidential helping relationship. The counselors act as facilitators to help clients better understand themselves and the world around them. Open and honest discussions of feelings, behaviors, relationships, life experiences, and circumstances with a trained counselor in a safe, confidential environment enables individuals to grow towards greater freedom in making healthy choices and taking appropriate actions for more satisfying relationships, self-concept, and life goals.
The counseling that is offered at Main Street Counseling is provided by skilled mental health professionals trained in the science of human behavior and relationships. When a client meets with a counselor he/she is meeting with someone who has experience helping individuals’ deal with a wide range of personal difficulties. Main Street Counseling associates work with the client to help him/her identify strengths, locate support resources, and to begin a process of change and growth. This work may occur one-on-one with an individual counselor, or in one of our office’s on-going popular groups. Whatever the format, a client coming to Main Street Counseling is treated with respect and is seen as an individual with unique strengths and limitations.
People in the Washington Metropolitan area are wonderfully diverse. They come from many different backgrounds, cultures, states, and families. Individuals, Couples, and Families come to Main Street Counseling for help with concerns such as interpersonal relationships, career decisions, and low self-confidence. They also come for help with issues related to their families, past sexual or physical abuse, current physically abusive relationships, drug/alcohol abuse, eating disorder, rape/sexual assault, life-threatening illnesses, and intense grief over losses such as the death of a parent, child, spouse or close friend. Over the course of life people go through numerous changes and pressures. During these times of crisis or stress, talking with a counselor at Main Street Counseling may be a beneficial option.
Main Street Counseling has a group of qualified psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, and trained, advanced-level psychology and counseling graduate students who offer counseling services. Many of our clinicians are credentialed with most major insurance carriers and are eligible to use their clients' insurance for a confidential counseling appointment. During this appointment, the client and the counselor will discuss counseling options which may include group, individual, or couples counseling at Main Street Counseling or in the community. All services provided by Main Street Counseling are voluntary and confidential.
The group is committed to providing counseling services and preventive programs which promote personal and career development as well as the psychological well-being of the client.
Main Street Counseling also offers workshops, consultations, psychotherapy groups, educational programs, career counseling, and hosts trainings for professionals.
Our website provides you with: self-help documents, internet resources, referrals, and reading lists, all to help you with day-to-day stresses and difficult periods in your life.
We are conveniently located in Fairfax and easily accessible from many major arteries in Northern Virginia. We also make available maps and directions.
Services are provided Monday through Saturday. Each counselor establishes her own hours and most provide evening hours in addition to daytime hours during the work week. Some counseling and workshops are offered on Saturdays. We take pride in our ability to respond quickly and personally to our clients’ needs.
This website and the information it contains is not meant to replace a face-to-face consultation with a trained counselor, nor does this service provide "on-line" counseling.