Menzo Faassen
Practical, experienced counseling for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Menzo
Menzo Faassen is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years of experience practicing in Virginia. He focuses on guiding people through difficult emotional times. He is direct and compassionate in sessions.
He aims to make therapy understandable and practical for those seeking help. He works with concerns such as depression, addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, stress, sleep issues, anger, self-esteem, and parenting. He also addresses more specific areas like attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, substance use, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
His methods draw on established therapies to match each person's needs. Menzo favors a collaborative style. He listens closely and helps clients set clear goals.
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and steps to manage strong emotions. He uses techniques to make changes feel doable in everyday life. Over his career he has helped people facing identity questions, painful losses, and life transitions.
He also supports those coping with shame, isolation, panic, and family of origin issues. He explains options plainly so people can choose what feels right. Menzo holds the LPC credential, Virginia LPC number 0701010945.
He conducts sessions in English and offers multiple online formats. His approach seeks steady progress through practical steps and steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathic relationship where clients set the pace. It helps people who need understanding and space to sort out feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving coping, which can help with anger, panic, and mood instability.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try approaches that match those needs. Decisions about techniques are made together and adjusted based on how things are going.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and keep continuity during life changes. They also allow for timely follow-up between sessions and practice of skills in the moment. Licensed professionals can use these tools to offer regular care that matches a person's routine and needs.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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