Life is full of transition and change. JFS recognizes that sometimes individuals and families need help navigating these challenges. We provide individual, couples, group, and family counseling services to people of all ages, regardless of affiliation.
Our services are available to the entire Tidewater Community.
JFS offers grief counseling through the Dozoretz Center for Family Healing, a community resource center established to help people of all ages cope with death of a loved one, family illness, relocation or divorce/separation/remarriage.
The Jessica Glasser Children’s Therapeutic Pavilion at JFS offers an engaging play-therapy room, which provides a comforting place for children and teens to learn to cope with life issues.
Our therapists are highly trained, master’s level, Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs), many of which hold special training in grief, child/teen issues, family stress and gerontology.
Debbie Mayer, LCSW, CT
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Cerfified in Thanatology
Director of Clinical Services
Child, adolescent, adult, and older adult counseling. Grief & mourning, deployments, divorce & remarriage, school & behavioral problems, parenting, illness & caregiver stress, inter-faith relationships, infertility, depression, stress & anxiety.
Michelle Fenley, LCSW, CCTP
Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
Carolyn Lempert, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Dennis Patterson, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Arnold Unterbach, LCSW, BCD
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Michelle J. Walter
LCSW, CCTP
Adult and older adult counseling. Grief & mourning, depression, stress & anxiety, relationship issues, LGBTQIA+ issues, inter-faith relationships, infertility, intellectual & physical disabilities issues, divorce & remarriage.
