About Ina
Ina Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with adults and young people on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and trauma. Her language skills include English and German, and she draws on a range of practical methods to support change.
Ina focuses on helping clients manage intense emotions and everyday problems. She uses clear, hands-on strategies to address anger, attention challenges, sleep and eating concerns, and addiction-related issues.
Background and approach
She also helps people coping with life transitions, caregiver stress, and first responder strain. Her approach centers on collaboration. Ina treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them build on existing strengths.
Sessions aim to make thoughts and feelings easier to name, and to practice new ways of responding when situations feel overwhelming. Ina often blends talk-based work with skill practice. She uses methods drawn from cognitive and behavioral approaches to change unhelpful patterns.
She also brings in acceptance-based ideas and attachment-focused skills when they match a client’s goals. Parents who are worried about a child or a teen will find a calm, structured presence. Ina offers support for parenting challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and family of origin issues.
She helps parents develop practical steps and coping plans to reduce everyday stress. To start, prospective clients choose a plan, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session. Ina aims to work together to set clear goals and make steady progress toward them.
How Ina’s approaches translate to online work
Ina commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and practicing small actions toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. CBT looks at thinking and behavior patterns and helps people try experiments to shift unhelpful habits and reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ina collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. Together they set concrete goals and adjust techniques over time based on what is helping most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase convenience. Video calls let people use visual cues and do longer skill-building work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for a check-in. Live chat and text messaging make brief touchpoints or ongoing support easier to fit into a busy day. These options are meant to make scheduling and follow-up more flexible while keeping the focus on practical, goal-oriented therapy.
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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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