LCSW, 25 years of experience
First, let me thank you for taking the first step to improve your mental health and your well-being. It’s normal to feel nervous and anxious when seeking therapy and it can be uncomfortable and even confusing at first. I strive to create a respectful, confidential, comfortable, safe environment that allows and encourages clients to explore their thoughts and feelings and to find a healthy and empowering voice to promote the desired changes to help improve mood, negative emotions and daily functioning at work and home. I help clients gain or regain control in their lives, to create healthy boundaries, to gain insight to understand and manage unhealthy, unhelpful emotions, and behaviors by developing new perspectives and coping tools and strategies to increase problem solving, confidence, self-esteem, self care and to improve their overall well being. I am Deidre Jones- Soll, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia, a Board Certified Diplomat and a Master Addiction Counselor with over 25+ years of clinical experience and training in a variety of evidence based treatment modalities that have allowed me to effectively treat individuals experiencing a variety of mental health issues and life stressors, including anxiety, depression, grief, and loss, insomnia, work stress, relationship issues, lack of motivation, low self-esteem, and lack of confidence, trauma, and life transitions, and adjustments concerns especially related to military service. I believe you are the master of your journey. You are the author and illustrator of the next chapter of your life! It’s never too late to find purpose and meaning in your life. You have a story to tell!
your first session will involve intake an assessment with questions regarding what bring you to therapy, confidentiality discussion, previous therapy you received, and what has been effective or not in the past. I will help you identify 2 -3 therapy goals. We will discuss the recommended treatment modality to be used in your therapy sessions , your therapy expectations, homework to be given if any, and how often we will meet. “I believe you are the expert of your life story and the master of your journey” My goal is to help you tell your story and identify the healthiest pathway to create the change you desire.
my greatest strength are my ability to work with a variety of clients with various mental health conditions. I have 25+ years of clinical experience, in a mental health treatment settings, including outpatient, Co Occurring- substance use disorder, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient behavioral health ,treatment programs with training and CBT, DBT, ACT, Trauma Grief and loss. For the past 20 years, i’ve worked primarily with active duty military service members in a Co Occurring partial hospitalization program, inpatient psychiatric care, intensive outpatient therapy providing individual group therapy. I also provided treatment to female active duty service members who suffered trauma, especially military sexual trauma, sexual harassment, and discrimination.
My ideal clients are adults who are experiencing anxiety and depression symptoms that are impacting work and personal life. The ideal clients are open, willing and motivated to changes, to gain new knowledge and perspectives, to learn healthy coping skills and tools to reduce or reframe negative thinking, to challenge unhealthy core beliefs, and to build supportive resources to improve mood and overall daily functioning. I also specialized in working with active duty service members and veterans who are experiencing a variety of mental health issues and life stressors related to balancing the demands of active duty service and or transitioning out of the military. Are you stressed out, feeling overwhelmed, isolated, anxious, having trouble sleeping and worried trying to deal with life demands and expectations? Do you find it difficult to set boundaries, to maintain balance or to speak up for what you want? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions. I am available to help you find your healthy voice to speak up for what you want, to help you establish healthy boundaries, to learn healthy coping skills to help reduce stress, anxiety, depression symptoms, to improve interpersonal relationship, to build self esteem and confidence and to promote good mental health and wellbeing. I can help you set realistic and measurable therapy goals and can help you to achieve your goals which can improve your mood, reduce stress and negative thoughts and emotions, and can increase your energy level and motivation. remember,Stress is the one constant in our lives! Everyone is dealing with stress and some stress is normal. However,excessive stress can be harmful to mind and body and therapy can help you learn healthy effective ways to cope and manage stress, to improve healthy self care and compassion for self and others and to improve daily functioning and quality of your life.
For the past 20 years, I have effectively used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy strategies and techniques to help adult clients learn healthy coping and problem solving skills and tools to improve anxiety, depression and sleep issues by helping clients change negative unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors, creating healthy boundaries, improving self-esteem and self care skills which helps to improve self awareness, relationships and overall functioning at work and home.
I am trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I have utilized ACT tools and techniques for the past 15 years to help adult clients manage a wide range of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, low self-esteem, lack of confidence etc by helping clients learn healthy coping skills healthy ways to reframe and manage their distress by understanding and accepting their emotions and challenges and learning to develop self acceptance, self compassion and healthy self care to improve overall daily functioning.