Children
Therapy helps children make sense of big feelings, worry loops, reassurance-seeking, avoidance, school stress, and social challenges while building confidence, flexibility, and resilience.
Therapy Services
Carey provides individual therapy for children, teens, and adults, along with parent and caregiver support, school collaboration, groups, and community workshops. Services are shaped around the client's age, needs, strengths, and daily life.
Therapy helps children make sense of big feelings, worry loops, reassurance-seeking, avoidance, school stress, and social challenges while building confidence, flexibility, and resilience.
Teens have room to be honest and understood as they navigate mood changes, independence, overwhelm, perfectionism, social and identity pressure, family expectations, school demands, and the pressure to hold it all together.
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.
Neurodiversity-affirming therapy for children, teens, and adults, including autistic clients and clients with ADHD. Carey helps clients understand their strengths and needs, navigate challenges, and develop strategies that fit how they think, feel, and experience the world.
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.
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.
Carey works with children, teens, and adults around digital habits that feel hard to manage, substance use, alcohol use, recovery-related concerns, and other cycles that may need more awareness and new ways of responding.
Therapy in practice
Sessions may include conversation, psychoeducation, creative expression, skill-building, parent consultation, and collaboration with schools or providers when helpful. Pacing respects the client's readiness.
Therapy is trauma-informed and nervous-system-informed across ages, with attention to safety, regulation, lived experience, protective strategies, emotional awareness, and coping skills.
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 parent work.
When helpful and appropriate, Carey collaborates with caregivers, teachers, school teams, medical providers, and other members of the client's team so clients have more consistency across settings.
Groups create space for connection, belonging, expression, and growth. Community workshops offer practical education for parents, caregivers, and the wider community. Carey is also developing parent groups for caregivers seeking education, shared language, and community around ADHD, neurodivergence, and family life.
Getting started
Carey offers a complimentary consultation call to help you explore whether therapy feels like the right fit.
Carey Hitchcock, LCSW Rooted in Care Therapy 9912A Georgetown Pike Great Falls, VA 22066 (571) 766-8293 carey@rootedincaretherapy.comIf this is an emergency or you may harm yourself or someone else, call 911 or 988 now.