Stafford Family Counseling

Services

Stafford Family Counseling (SFC) offers specialty programs in addition to the expected individual, couples and family counseling. These programs include:

	Virginia Support Services, P.C.
	Virginia Home Based Counseling, P.C.
	Social Achievers

Virginia Support Services, P.C.

Henry Koch, Ph.D. - Director
Patrick Stiehm, L.P.C. - Program Director

Virginia Support Services, P.C. provides behavioral and mental health training and support services to individuals with impairments in major life activities that have mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders with the purpose of facilitating an individual’s functioning and promoting his/her autonomy.

Our program offers supportive services to individuals and families in their homes. Clinicians assist with training the individual and families to understand and cope with the challenges of one diagnosed with a mental, behavioral, or emotional disability. A wide range of services is provided. These include helping individuals perform various daily living activities. Some of these include maintaining proper hygiene, keeping a clean living environment, addressing interpersonal skills, managing money, developing self-help skills and increasing appropriate social skills. The program provides a nurturing environment that enhances the individual and family.

Virginia Support Services, P.C. is committed to providing unconditional support to individuals and their families through flexible, timely, and least intrusive services. Individuals and their families are supported until they no longer need or desire services. Services are built around the individual and family preferences, choices, values, strengths and the natural support system of the family and community. Virginia Support Services, P.C.’s goal is to address life skills problems and provide therapeutic services designed to empower and support developmentally and psychologically disabled individuals and their families as they attempt to achieve personal autonomy and independent life-styles.

Supportive In-Home Program

• Licensed by DMHMRSAS
• Medicaid Provider

When: By Appointment
Where: Currently servicing Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, and Stafford counties.
Rate: Medicaid (see below for Medicaid criteria)

Please call (703) 330-9933 if you have any questions.

Eligibility for Supportive In-Home Program through Medicaid

• Individuals of all ages with a pending or current psychiatric diagnosis.
• Must meet 2 out of 4 of the following:
  • Difficulty in establishing or maintaining normal interpersonal relationships to such a degree that they are at risk of hospitalization or homelessness or isolation from social supports.
  • Exhibit such inappropriate behavior that repeated interventions by the mental health, social services or judicial system are necessary.
  • Exhibit difficulty in cognitive ability such that they are unable to recognize personal danger or recognize significantly inappropriate social behavior.
  • Require help in basic living skills, such as maintaining personal hygiene, preparing food and maintaining adequate nutrition, or managing finances to such a degree that health or safety is jeopardized.

Virginia Home Based Counseling, P.C.

Henry Koch, Ph.D. - Director
Patrick Stiehm, L.P.C. - Program Director

Delinquency, alcohol and drug abuse, youth violence, gangs, early sexual involvement, and other problem behaviors in youth are causes for grave concern in Virginia. The demand for effective approaches to prevent the degradation of youth and their family is growing daily. Virginia Home Based Counseling, P.C. provides help to families with a child or children who are at risk for an out of home placement. This outreach program is an intensive in-home service for children, adolescents, and their families. The goal is to address problems and provide therapeutic services designed to empower those individuals and families, allowing them to develop and lead healthier lives.

Virginia Home Based Counseling, P.C. is a family-focused program committed to providing unconditional support through direct, intensive in-home services to youth who are at risk of an out of home placement due to mental health or substance abuse issues. The primary goal of this program is to preserve the family unit and prevent the unnecessary placement of children outside of their homes or community. The Core Principles in providing these services are:

• Families can be the best primary resource and decision-makers.
• Counseling services are built around family preferences, choices, and values.
• Counseling services are customized for each family and their individual strengths.
• Counseling services are geared toward the natural support system of the family.
• Counseling services are aimed at maximizing interagency cooperation to maintain the youth in the family and community.

Understanding that each family and child is different and requires specialized services is key to the success of this program. Virginia Home Based Counseling, P.C., provides a wide range of comprehensive services to children, adolescents, and their families including:

• Assessments
• Crisis Intervention and Treatment
• Individual and Family Counseling
• Life Skills Training
• Therapeutic Parenting Techniques
• Communication and Relationship Enhancement
• Individualized Case Management
• 24-hour Emergency Response

Virginia Home Based Counseling, P.C., provides a unique offering to the community through its affiliation with SFC, an established and respected outpatient psychological practice. This affiliation allows for immediate access to ancillary and aftercare services for clients requiring any number of outpatient counseling services, be it a state licensed substance abuse program for adolescents, psychological assessments, or outpatient care for all ages.

When: By Appointment
Where: Currently servicing Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, and Stafford counties.
Rate: Medicaid

Please call (703) 367-7800 if you want to make an appointment, referral, or have any questions.

Social Achievers

A Social Skills Program to Help Children & Adolescents Develop & Enhance Socialization Skills

Wendy Hasychak, L.P.C. - Program Director

Every child deserves the opportunity to grow socially, experience the joy of playing with friends and academically succeed. Unfortunately, disruptive class behavior, peer rejection and social alienation can cause psychological difficulties that are reflected in poor academic performance, low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness. Social Achievers assumes a positive social skills approach to treating children who suffer from peer rejection and social isolation by teaching and building new behaviors that are pro-social, adaptive and appropriate. Social Achievers is an interactive small group program designed to develop social skills with school-aged children and adolescents.

Social Achievers emphasizes five core social skills:

1. Cooperation: Goals include ignoring class distractions from classmates, making appropriate transitions, using free time appropriately, finishing classroom assignments within time limits and following teacher's instructions.
2. Assertion: Goals include giving compliments, making appropriate introductions, making positive self-statements, initiating conversations, joining ongoing activities, and inviting others to join activities.
3. Responsibility: Goals include asking adults for help, paying attention to speakers, politely refusing unreasonable requests from others, asking permission before using other people's property, reporting accidents to appropriate persons, and responding to compliments.
4. Empathy: Goals include saying socially enhancing remarks to others, nonverbally greeting or acknowledging others, feeling sorry for others when bad things happen to them and listening to adults when they are talking.
5. Self Control: Goals include getting along with people who are different, accepting peer's suggestions, cooperating with peers without prompting, responding to peer pressure appropriately, compromising in conflict situations, receiving criticism well, and responding appropriately when pushed or hit by others.

Social Achievers builds social skills through group activities, modeling behavior, coaching, behavioral rehearsal, social problem solving, homework assignments and peer feedback.

When: After School During the Week
Where: Stafford Family Counseling, P.C.
Rate: $40/Session (if not covered by insurance)

To make an appointment, referral, or to have questions answered, please contact Wendy Hasychak at (703) 330- 9933, Ext. 26.

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