Virginia Lodge LMSW

You have been through a lot — abuse, family dysfunction, marital challenges, grief, abandonment. A lot of the time, you feel like you’re holding it together and fulfilling your responsibilities. But there are moments when it feels like you might come crashing down — you find yourself yelling at or completely shutting off from people you care about. Or you experience waves of emotions like sadness that seem to come out of nowhere. Maybe it’s challenging to have close relationships. The ways that you developed to cope with hardship are getting in the way of your life now — you want to feel capable of handling situations intentionally.

I firmly believe that your deepest self already knows what it needs to heal and I seek to create the conditions for that healing capacity to emerge. As we build a trusting relationship, I will use my training across multiple modalities to collaborate with you, adjusting our work together based on what feels right for you.

Through teaching you about how our brains and bodies develop to remember our life experiences, I can help you to begin to feel compassion toward yourself, which will give you the courage to get curious about who you are and how you operate. We will work together to help your body process past harm, your mind to slow down, and your heart to feel open to others.