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.
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Please contact us today at 757-459-4640 to schedule an appointment. You may also complete the form below, and a member of our team will reach out to you.
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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 professionals (MSWs), many of whom 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.
Child, adolescent, and adult counseling. School & behavioral problems, ADHD, Asperger’s/Autism Spectrum disorders, parenting, depression, anxiety, families coping with illness or disability, relationships, grief & mourning, divorce & remarriage, and miscarriage/pregnancy loss.
MAYA BALL, LCSW, CCTP
Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Carolyn Lempert, LCSW
Dennis Patterson, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Michelle J. Walter, LCSW, CCTP
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER, CERTIFIED CLINICAL TRAUMA PROFESSIONAL
Adult and older adult counseling. Grief & mourning, depression, stress & anxiety, relationship issues, LGBTQIA+ issues, inter-faith relationships, infertility, intellectual & physical disabilities issues, divorce & remarriage.
