Aja King
Hello, and welcome. I am Aja King, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia and Colorado. My work as a counselor has allowed me to sit alongside people from many different backgrounds and life experiences, often during some of the most overwhelming or uncertain seasons of their lives. I believe counseling should feel genuine, steady, and collaborative — a space where people can process honestly, feel understood, and begin reconnecting with themselves in meaningful ways.
First session
During the first session, my goal is to better understand you, your experiences, and what brings you to counseling at this point in your life. I take a strengths-based and collaborative approach, creating space for clients to speak openly without fear of judgment while we begin identifying both the challenges they are carrying and the strengths they already possess. Together, we will explore what feels important to preserve, what may need to shift, and what changes may help create a greater sense of stability and progress. My hope is that clients leave the first session feeling heard, supported, and reassured that they do not have to figure everything out alone — we will work through it together, one step at a time.
Strengths
What makes me unique as a counselor is the combination of both professional experience and lived experience. I understand that life can throw some serious curve balls, and I know what it feels like to navigate difficult seasons while trying to find steadiness and hope again. Having experienced counseling from both sides of the chair — as both a therapist and a client — has deepened the compassion, respect, and authenticity I bring into my work with clients. I believe people deserve a counseling space where they feel genuinely seen, heard, and supported without judgment. My approach is grounded, transparent, and collaborative, and I consider it a privilege to walk alongside clients as they navigate healing, growth, and change.
Ideal clients
I primarily work with adult individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, and cultures. I enjoy working with people who may be navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, PTSD, difficult relationships, major life transitions, emotional overwhelm, or seasons that simply feel heavy and difficult to carry alone. Many of the clients I work with are thoughtful, capable people who have spent a long time holding everything together while quietly struggling underneath the surface. I strive to create a supportive and grounded space where clients feel safe to process honestly, build greater self-understanding, and move toward healing, emotional steadiness, and self-acceptance without judgment.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people better understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Many people move through difficult seasons carrying anxiety, self-criticism, fear, or patterns that developed during stressful experiences. I use CBT in a grounded and encouraging way that helps clients slow things down, gain perspective, and respond more intentionally instead of feeling controlled by overwhelming emotions or spiraling thoughts. This work is not about forcing “positive thinking.” It is about recognizing unhelpful patterns, building healthier responses, and creating more emotional steadiness and clarity in everyday life.
Narrative
Narrative Therapy helps people look at their experiences, struggles, and relationships through a different lens. Many people begin to define themselves by painful experiences, anxiety, shame, conflict, or the messages they have carried for years. Over time, those stories can begin to feel permanent and deeply personal. I use Narrative Therapy to help clients separate themselves from the problem, recognize their strengths more clearly, and reconnect with who they are beyond the difficult season they may be walking through. This approach creates space for reflection, healing, self-understanding, and more intentional movement forward.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma affects every person differently, which is why I use a variety of evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Each intervention offers different strengths depending on a client’s experiences, symptoms, goals, and emotional readiness. My approach to trauma work is grounded, supportive, and collaborative. The goal is to help clients feel safer, more emotionally steady, and less defined by what they have been through.
Attachment-based
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships and emotional experiences shape the way people connect, trust, communicate, and respond within relationships throughout life. Many people find themselves repeating painful relational patterns or struggling with anxiety, fear of abandonment, emotional distance, or difficulty feeling secure and understood. I use an attachment-based approach to help clients better understand their relational patterns with compassion rather than shame. Together, we work toward building healthier connections, greater emotional safety, improved communication, and a stronger sense of security within themselves and their relationships.
Christian Counseling
I offer Christian counseling for clients who would like their faith to be incorporated into the counseling process. At the same time, I deeply respect that people draw strength, meaning, and resilience from many different backgrounds, beliefs, values, and life experiences. My priority with every client is understanding who they are, what matters to them, and where they find support and strength during difficult seasons. I strive to create a space that is respectful, grounded, supportive, and welcoming to individuals from all backgrounds and belief systems.
Location
Virtual sessions