Dr. Pamela Kayanan, LPC, LMFT

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has practiced in Virginia for 25 years. Her approach is straightforward and focused on what will help now.

She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to listen and understand a person's priorities. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and with Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation.

Motivational Interviewing helps people find the reasons they want to change and take small steps toward those goals. Her work often focuses on anxiety and depression, including trauma and post-traumatic stress.

She also supports people dealing with addictions of many kinds, from substances to behavioral patterns. Relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, anger, and self-esteem are also common concerns she addresses.

Dr. Kayanan has experience with complex situations such as attachment and blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems.

She has worked with first responders and veterans around mood disorders and trauma-related concerns. Practical coping strategies, clearer communication, and gradual behavior change are typical parts of her sessions.

Sessions are offered in English and can be delivered online. People who choose to begin work complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions to fit their lives.