Who are we?

Here at Power of Mind, LLC (POM) we are more than a private practice, we are healing center that roots our treatment in targeted achievable goals, integrative approaches, and evidence-based practices. At POM we promise to be integrative in your therapeutic work, collaborative by prioritizing your voice and choice in the process. 

POM was recently nominated for the Partnership for a Healthier Fairfax’s 2023 Live Healthy Fairfax Award.  The Award recognizes those who have demonstrated exemplary action and leadership to improve the health and well-being of the Fairfax Community. 

We specialize in children/adolescent behavioral health with a speciality in trauma related issues. POM offers services that gear toward healing and recovery, which recognizes that services should be customized and client-centered. We offer traditional outpatient therapy and specialized services such as life coaching, mentoring, parent coaching, uncoupling/coupling, and assessments. 

Here at POM our approach is evidenced-based. Evidenced-based means treatment modalities, that have successfully passed clinical trials, backed by science, are often federally supported and effectively improve a range of emotional and behavioral presentation. Examples of our most frequently used evidenced-based modalities are:

EMDR: Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an enhanced therapy model that desensitizes distressing events or negative self-beliefs through work with negative memories.  It by- passes traditional talk-therapy approach and brings relief through a memory a processing protocol that facilitated by an EMDR-certified practitioner. Core components of this modality are: soothe/safety, memory, bi-lateral stimulation and enhancing core-self beliefs.   www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYxH8_SISE 

TF-CBT:  Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral therapy is a short-term eight-step treatment course for children ages 5-18 who have been impacted by trauma.  It aims to both process and desensitize child to the traumatic event so that they are no longer distressed by it, rather aware, integrated and released of their negative cognitions. Core components of the model are:  Education, soothe, process, and parent-skills. https://www.tfcbt.org/

CBT:  Cognitive behavioral therapy is a classic and common insight-oriented modality that promotes symptoms reduction through building a therapeutic relationship, gaining an understanding of self and facing painful feelings. Core components of this modality are:  challenging distorted thinking, deconstructing negative experiences, education of basic emotional functioning and shifting your narrative from a self-destructive to self-liberating.