Menzo Faassen

Menzo Faassen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 24 years of clinical experience. He supports people facing depression, addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, and stresses related to work and identity. He creates an affirming, respectful space where clients can talk through painful experiences. Sessions focus on listening first, then building practical steps to manage symptoms like panic, sleep problems, or low self-esteem. The tone is collaborative and down-to-earth. Menzo often helps people wrestling with identity and isolation, including clients from LGBT communities and veterans. He also works with those coping with family of origin issues, attachment concerns, and relationship patterns that cause repeated conflict. His clinical toolkit includes client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. He also uses psychodramatic techniques such as role exploration and the empty chair to support creative problem solving. In sessions, Menzo aims to translate insight into concrete tools. That might mean practicing emotion regulation skills, setting small behavioral experiments, or mapping coping plans for difficult moments. He helps clients set goals and adjust strategies when life changes shift their needs. People who reach out can expect practical guidance grounded in long-term experience. The approach is flexible and tailored, with attention to both immediate relief and longer-term growth.

How his approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, with the therapist showing empathy and following the client’s lead to support growth and self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and uses straightforward tasks to test and change unhelpful patterns; this can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and sleeping difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which supports people facing intense moods, anger, or relationship strain. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Menzo will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and he adjusts strategies as needs change over time. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay relevant and practical. Confirm the available session formats before scheduling because the biography does not list specific online options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, save travel time, or choose sessions that match how much interaction someone wants, such as shorter check-ins or longer weekly meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises like role work, CBT worksheets, and DBT skills practice to remote sessions, helping people apply new skills in day-to-day situations.