About
As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia with over eight years of experience, Christina Keenan helps adults and older adolescents navigate their internal struggles, trauma, and adversity. Her approach is centered around creating a safe and comfortable space for clients to explore their pain and develop healthier lives. Christina Keenan's work is informed by a psychodynamic and trauma-informed lens, emphasizing the importance of exploring the link between past experiences and present thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She prioritizes building an authentic therapeutic relationship with her clients, encouraging feedback and providing therapeutic observations and feedback in her sessions. Christina Keenan is committed to providing a safe space for clients to share about and process how larger systemic injustices affect their well-being, and she believes that the counseling profession cannot be separated from social justice issues.
Insurance & payment
Christina Keenan Counseling LLC is an Out of Network provider and therefore does not accept insurance.
- Out of network
Listed fee: $160 per session. Ask about sliding-scale fees if you're paying out of pocket.
Services & specialties
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT combines cognitive and behavioral therapies with mindfulness to help individuals learn how to tolerate distress, regulate emotions, and develop healthier interpersonal relationships.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an eight-phase psychotherapy approach used to treat suffering caused by past trauma, helping desensitize the emotional charge associated with memories and facilitating their reprocessing and integration of healthier thoughts.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS posits that everyone has parts and there are no 'bad' parts - only parts that have been forced into extreme roles due to the need to respond and adapt to adversity.
Perinatal Mental Health
A perinatal mental health therapist has formal training relating to planning to welcome a baby into one’s home and to managing the first year after a baby’s arrival, navigating the transition with internal and external stressors such as depression and anxiety, changing relationships, and managing childcare.