Jennifer Riordan's Counseling Specialties
Specialty Areas
- Depression
- Bipolar Disorder
- Alcoholism
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Codependency
- Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
- Anxiety
- Gifted and Talented Adolescents and Adults
- Families with a Gifted Child
- Parenting
- Who Am I? A search for Self
- Gay and Lesbian Issues
- Crisis Counseling
- Suicidal Ideation
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Disaster Mental Health Counseling
Clients Served
- Individual adults and adolescents
- Couples
- Families
- Gifted adults and adolescents
Some of the Strategies Used
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Imago Couples Counseling
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization)
- Critical Incident Stress Manaagement (Mitchell Method)
- Red Cross Disaster Mental Health
- Assertiveness training
- Self-Image/Self Esteem Bulding
- Dealing with Anxiety or Fear
- Stress Management
- Trust building
Counseling Background and Training
(most recent is first)
- EMDR Training
- Disaster Mental Health Training
- Training in working with the Gifted (1 year)
- Critical Incident Stress Management trainings (5 days)
- Imago Couples counseling training
- 2000 Earned Virginia State License
- 1997 Began working at Dominion Hospital with groups of chronically mentally ill patients
- 1996 Began Private Practice in Springfield
- Worked with homeless families for FACETS-Fairfax Area Christian Emergency and Transitional Services
- 1994 Worked for Ethos Foundation, outpatient substance abuse treatment center in Falls Church, doing group and individual counseling.
- 1994 (Jan) MEd in Mental Health Counseling
- 1993 Internship on the Substance Abuse Treatment Team at Loudon County Mental Health (1 year)
- 1990-94 Stephen Minister
Professional Organizations
- American Counseling Association
- Northern Virginia Licensed Professional Counselors (on Board)
- American Mental Health Counselors Association
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- International Critial Incident Stress Foundation
- Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists
Other Background and Training
- Author of They Can Sing Too
- 5 1/2 years as Special Education Teacher
- MA in Special Education
- Army Wife
- BA in Sociology and English