About Menzo
Menzo Faassen is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years of experience practicing in Virginia. He provides steady, straightforward support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and trauma. Menzo aims to make therapy understandable and practical from the first conversation.
He focuses on creating a respectful, accepting atmosphere where clients can talk through painful experiences. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Menzo listens for patterns that cause distress and helps people try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Menzo draws on several approaches to problem solving. He uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills may be added to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance. People who want help with addiction, panic, mood disorders, family of origin issues, identity questions, or relationship patterns often find clear, practical steps in sessions. He also offers support around sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, and feelings of isolation.
Sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Menzo describes therapy as a paced collaboration where goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Menzo uses client-centered work to make sessions focus on what the person finds most important. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client’s priorities to shape each session. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot negative thinking and test alternative ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Menzo will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up. Together they decide which methods to try and check in regularly to adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for most full sessions and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can help keep momentum between longer sessions or provide brief skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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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