About Ina
Ina Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 23 years of experience. She works with adults and young people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other common life struggles. She speaks English and German and uses practical, goal-focused sessions to help people move forward.
Ina aims for simple, direct work in sessions. She encourages clients to name what matters most and to build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and paced to the individual, with tools introduced gradually so they are easier to use between meetings. Her background spans many concerns that commonly arise in therapy. Those include attention challenges, grief, parenting strain, substance use, career stress, relationship difficulties, and issues related to identity and coming out.
Ina also supports people dealing with burnout, first responder stress, and the emotional impacts of aging or adoption and foster care histories. Ina draws on methods from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and from acceptance and commitment work to clarify values and committed action.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and client-centered listening to shape sessions around each person’s pace and goals. Sessions focus on clear, achievable steps. Ina helps people build coping skills for anxiety, manage strong emotions, and make steady changes that fit day-to-day life.
The approach is collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where avoidance keeps someone stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. This approach is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ina works together with each person to decide which methods match their needs and goals. That collaboration can mean blending ideas from different approaches and adjusting strategies as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth work and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day and use less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to get regular support while fitting sessions around work, family, or school commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, German
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