Meet Virginia

 


Welcome. I'm so glad you're here.

I’m a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern, currently completing my master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, where I’m finishing my internship hours under supervision. While I’m still in training, I come into this work with decades of experience as a writer, editor, and nationally credentialed victim advocate through NOVA’s National Advocate Credentialing Program — and with a deep respect for how complex, layered, and non-linear healing really is.

My approach is rooted in person-centered values, existential and narrative therapy, and logotherapy. In plain terms, that means I care deeply about your story, your sense of meaning, and the way your experiences have shaped how you see yourself and the world. I integrate trauma-informed care, polyvagal theory, somatic awareness, mindfulness, and expressive modalities like sand tray work to support both emotional understanding and nervous system regulation. Sessions with me are collaborative, paced, and responsive — there’s room for reflection, curiosity, and growth without pressure to “perform” or have everything figured out.

Before entering the clinical world, I spent years walking alongside survivors navigating grief, trauma, abuse, and recovery. That work — along with my own lived experience — taught me that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about reclaiming voice, restoring agency, and gently rewriting the narratives we carry about who we are and what we’re allowed to become.

I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating life transitions, trauma, grief and loss, chronic illness, identity questions, relationship and communication challenges, dissociation, addiction, and the impact of high-stress or service-oriented roles. I have particular experience supporting first responders, medical professionals, veterans, older adults, LGBTQ+ individuals and couples, parents, and those exploring non-traditional relationship structures.

At the heart of my work is a simple belief: healing begins when people feel genuinely seen and heard. I walk alongside my clients as they reconnect with themselves, strengthen their relationships, and move toward lives rooted in meaning, authenticity, and choice. As I often say, you are not who others say you are — you are who you choose to be.

If you want to know more about me as a mental health counselor, you can visit my Psychology Today profile. 

But like every story, there’s more beneath the professional headline.

I’m also the co-host and producer of Language of the Soul Podcast, where I explore voice, healing, and the complexity of being human with the main host, Dominick Domingo.

At home, I’m a mother to three amazing humans, a dog lover, a partner, and a lifelong learner of the messy, beautiful human experience.

This blog is one of the ways I continue that learning—with honesty, curiosity, and presence.

Thanks for walking part of the path with me.

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