Therapy for children, teens, and adults.

Carey provides individual therapy for children, teens, and adults, along with parent and caregiver support, school collaboration, groups, and community workshops.

Individual therapy with practical support for daily life.

Services are individualized and responsive to the client's age, needs, strengths, and context. Parent support and school collaboration may be included to provide a fuller picture and continuity across settings.

Individual therapy

Therapy for children, teens, and adults.

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Children

Therapy helps children make sense of big feelings, worry loops, reassurance-seeking, avoidance, school stress, social challenges, flexibility, accepting limits, and building resilience in ways that reduce shame and build confidence.

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Teens

Teens have room to be honest, understood, and supported as they navigate mood changes, growing independence, overwhelm, perfectionism, social and identity pressures, family expectations, relationships with parents and caregivers, school demands, and the pressure to keep up or hold it all together.

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Adults

Many adults come to therapy not because something is wrong, but because life no longer feels aligned with who they are or how they want to show up. Therapy can help adults understand old patterns, navigate changing roles or life transitions, and move toward a more meaningful way of living and relating.

Common patterns

Common areas of support.

ADHD & Executive Functioning

Support for attention, planning, motivation, emotional intensity, task initiation, school stress, and the exhaustion that can come from trying to hold it all together.

Anxiety, Mood & Overwhelm

Help with worry loops, reassurance-seeking, OCD patterns, shutdown, avoidance, sadness, irritability, perfectionism, sleep disruption, and daily life that feels harder than it needs to be.

Regulation & Relationships

Therapy can build language for big emotions, conflict, reactivity, family stress, boundaries, rupture and repair, and the desire for more connection at home, school, or work.

Addiction & Compulsive Coping

Carey supports children, teens, and adults with digital habits that feel hard to manage, substance use, alcohol use, recovery-related concerns, and other cycles that may call for more awareness, support, and new ways of responding.

What therapy may include.

Sessions may include conversation, psychoeducation, creative expression, skill-building, parent consultation, collaboration with schools or providers when helpful, and pacing that respects the client's readiness.

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Clinical lens

Trauma-informed care is woven into the work.

Carey's individual therapy is trauma-informed and nervous-system-informed across ages. This means therapy pays attention to safety, regulation, lived experience, protective strategies, emotional awareness, coping skills, and the changes each person wants to make.

Around the client

Collaboration can include parents, schools, and providers.

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Parents & Caregivers

Parent-focused work helps caregivers understand emotional needs, reduce conflict at home, set realistic limits, reduce anxiety accommodations when helpful, and respond with more clarity, co-regulation, and compassion. This may include SPACE-informed parenting support.

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School & Provider Collaboration

When helpful and appropriate, Carey collaborates with caregivers, teachers, school teams, medical providers, and other supports so clients have more consistency across environments.

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Groups & Community Workshops

Groups create space for connection, belonging, expression, and growth. Community workshops offer practical education and support for parents, caregivers, and the wider community. Carey is also developing parent support groups for caregivers seeking education, shared language, and support around ADHD, neurodivergence, and family life.

Schedule a Free Consultation

Carey offers a complimentary consultation call to help you explore whether therapy feels like the right fit.

Not sure where to begin? A free consultation is a place to talk through what is happening and whether Carey's support feels like the right fit.

Carey Hitchcock, LCSW Rooted in Care Therapy 9912A Georgetown Pike Great Falls, VA 22066 (571) 766-8293 carey@rootedincaretherapy.com

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