Virginia Moon-Panagiotes

Virginia's clients experience anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, impulse control, and high-risk behaviors. Her clients have survived foster care, POWs, housing instability, drug abuse, war, COVID-19, grief/loss, neglect, and other abuses. Virginia utilize client-centered treatment that stabilizes crises and provides the client and their support systems with tools to overcome current and future stresses they may face. Virginia takes a holistic approach to treatment that includes the client, their sense of self, family, and extended support systems.

Virginia is trained in trauma-informed care that provides tools to manage stressors and triggers while facilitating a safe environment to process trauma with EMDR and other techniques suitable to the client's individual needs. Virginia works to establish trust and rapport by looking at the client as a human in their whole with layers and complex interests and experiences. Virginia's goal is for an hour a week her clients feel safe to do the hard work with someone they know truly cares and engages with them in where they are at any point during treatment.

Virginia worked with foster care and probation youth in placements as well as therapeutic group home settings and in transitional high school as an on-site therapist. Virginia has also worked with senior populations who were experiencing the transitions into dependent care as well as hospice. Virginia was also honored, in this population, to work with Holocaust survivors and provide them clinical care and case management. Virginia worked within the recovery population utilizing harm reduction and medicated assisted treatment to address the client's recovery goals. Virginia now works primarily with a wide variety of adult-aged individuals who seek symptom reduction and comprehensive treatment for their trauma.

Virginia specializes in telehealth with virtual EMDR interventions so clients can receive treatment from their own home.