LP, 10 years of experience
Hello! My name is Dr. Abey Muthoni, and I am so thrilled for the opportunity to get to know you and be part of your life journey! I was born and raised in Kenya, and have lived in the U.S. since 2004. I earned my doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and I am a licensed PSYPACT psychologist residing in Virginia. My treatment approach is integrative, with primary roots in relational-cultural, person-centered, and narrative therapy approaches. In therapy with clients, there is a strong emphasis on empowerment, honoring clients’ cultural worldview and subjective reality, consideration of sociocultural and sociopolitical influences, capitalization of strengths and supportive resources, using the therapeutic relationship to facilitate corrective experiences, as well as collaborating with clients to identify goals and action steps that will promote improved overall well-being.
In your first session with me, you will be welcomed with a warm smile and an affirming atmosphere. In the first session, I like to take the time to get to know you, and ways that I can support you in this season of your life. During our first session, we will also discuss ways that we can collaborate to work towards achieving your goals.
My strengths include demonstrating genuine care and compassion, co-creating a safe and affirming environment, collaborative, multiculturally aware and sensitive, building on strengths and supportive resources, promoting hope and empowerment, fostering mutuality and corrective experiences, and cultivating liberating and growth-fostering experiences.
My clinical specialty areas include Black diaspora issues, immigrant and international student issues, racial and ethnic minority issues, intercultural issues, identity exploration, life transition and adjustment concerns, family of origin and relationship concerns, faith/spirituality, trauma, grief and loss, and academic and job-related concerns. I am also passionate about cultural diversity issues and strive to learn and put into practice culturally-responsive ways that I can best support clients as they explore their intersecting cultural identities and related systems of power and oppression.
My treatment approach is integrative, with primary roots in relational-cultural, person-centered, and narrative therapy approaches. In therapy with clients, there is a strong emphasis on empowerment, liberation, honoring clients’ cultural worldview and subjective reality, consideration of sociocultural and sociopolitical influences, capitalization of strengths and supportive resources, using the therapeutic relationship to facilitate corrective experiences, as well as collaborating with clients to identify goals and action steps that will promote improved overall well-being. My clinical specialty areas include Black diaspora issues, immigrant and international student issues, racial and ethnic minority issues, intercultural issues, identity exploration, life transition and adjustment concerns, family of origin and relationship concerns, faith/spirituality, trauma, grief and loss, and academic and job-related concerns. I am also passionate about cultural diversity issues and strive to learn and put into practice culturally-responsive ways that I can best support clients as they explore their intersecting cultural identities and related systems of power and oppression.
7 ratings with written reviews
August 4, 2025
Abey is authentic and brings a really light but caring energy to each session. She navigates serious and caring with light and humorous really well depending on the topic we are broaching. I have made more progress in my interpersonal relationships in about 6 months than all my 30 years of floundering about on my own trying to figure out why my friendships were not working for me and how to set boundaries. I feel like I am finally turning over a new leaf!
July 15, 2025
I always leave our sessions feeling empowered, challenged, and content!
June 15, 2025
A wonderful therapist. As an older woman, I have avoided therapy for many years as I had little confidence in the process. Then a couple of stutter steps with therapists that were not a good fit. Now, with Dr. Wachira, I look forward to sessions. I have a lot of work to do to meet my goals. Dr. Wachira is a fully engaged partner on my healing and improvement journey. I'm grateful to have found her.