About Ina
Ina Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 23 years of clinical experience. She offers steady support to people facing overwhelming stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Ina speaks English and German and brings a calm, practical manner to sessions.
Ina uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people shift unhelpful thinking and on dialectical behavior strategies for managing strong emotions and impulses.
How Ina works
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered elements to build trust and focus on each person's goals. Her background includes work with attention differences, substance concerns, grief, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and gender and LGBT issues. She has experience addressing eating and sleeping difficulties, bipolar and mood disorders, and problems tied to adoption, abandonment, or family of origin.
First responder issues and disaster-related stress are also areas she has supported. In sessions she aims for clear, practical steps. Conversation, skill practice, and short-term problem solving are common.
The goal is to ease day-to-day struggles and build strategies people can use outside sessions. Therapy is scheduled around each person’s life and can include longer work on deeper patterns or focused help for a particular problem. Ina encourages clients to set concrete goals and checks progress as they go.
Ina lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Ina works with
The areas below are the ones Ina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English, German |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify personal values and take meaningful action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ina will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying a few ideas and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills demonstration. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat let people send thoughts between sessions or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent work while balancing life responsibilities.
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