About Menzo
Menzo Faassen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 24 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and anxiety. He creates an affirming space and listens carefully before offering next steps.
Faassen aims to make therapy straightforward and relevant. He helps clients tackle sleep problems, anger, parenting strain, and career-related stress. He also supports those dealing with mood disorders, panic, and challenges tied to identity and isolation.
How Menzo works
His style is collaborative and person-focused. Sessions emphasize clear goals, useful skills, and small changes that add up. He often uses methods that teach coping skills, restructure thoughts, and build emotional regulation.
Clients can expect conversations that move at a manageable pace. Menzo works to reduce guilt, shame, and codependency while strengthening self-esteem and problem-solving. He also addresses complicated family-of-origin issues and adoption or attachment concerns.
Over two decades in practice have shaped a flexible approach. He draws on motivational work to support change, solution-focused steps to advance toward goals, and behavior-based techniques for mood and anxiety. Menzo aims to help people regain stability and handle life transitions with clearer tools and more confidence.
Menzo lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Menzo works with
The areas below are the ones Menzo selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the client set the direction of therapy. It is useful for building self-understanding and addressing issues like identity, shame, and isolation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, or panic. It often includes practical exercises to try between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve sleep and mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It is especially helpful for strong mood swings, impulsive behaviors, and intense anger.
Menzo treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as sessions progress to match client needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and styles. Video calls permit face-to-face conversation when that helps progress. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or travel is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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