About Menzo
Menzo Faassen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 24 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical help for people facing depression, addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, and stress. Menzo aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through hard things and work toward feeling more steady.
He takes a straightforward, person-focused approach. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs most, whether that means learning skills for panic attacks or talking through family and identity concerns.
Background and approach
Menzo pays attention to shame, isolation, and how past relationships affect current life. Menzo also helps people with sleep problems, career stress, parenting strain, and challenges tied to mood disorders such as bipolar. He works with those affected by substance use and supports people wrestling with anger or low self-esteem.
His practice includes attention to adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and codependency. Therapy blends goal-focused work and emotional processing. Menzo uses practical tools to manage symptoms and short-term strategies for day-to-day coping.
He partners with clients to set clear goals and track progress over time. Sessions are offered in English and available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Menzo brings long experience and a steady presence to help people negotiate life changes and regain a sense of control.
How Menzo’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about making space for a person to lead the conversation while the therapist listens and reflects. It helps when someone needs to feel understood, reduce shame, or make sense of identity and relationship issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, sleep problems, and mood regulation by teaching tools to break cycles that keep problems going.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, brings skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping. It can help with intense anger, emotional swings, codependency patterns, and building distress tolerance skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Menzo will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean combining skill training with deeper conversations about past wounds and family patterns.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work for short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats help therapy fit around work, parenting, or other daily demands.
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What this counselor works with
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- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English