Social Workers - Moneta, VA

"Mrs. Kelly, Truly a caring professional. She works with her clients. She also will provide information for their families to make sessions easy to continue at home. She is willing to hear the parents side with out child getting feeling hurt. What a great experience working with her. I would recommend her to anyone if you want your child to succeed."

"Sorrowfully I was a client of Dorene Ficks because apparently she was experienced in PTSD, TRAUMA, and eating disorders- I'm here to tell you she is NOT experienced in these things to the degree to which Trauma can Fragment a life into unencoded, implicit memory pieces causing constant chaos within the client, which , what client could ever figure this out on their own. ZERO. She never did recognize what was going on, and I couldn't get her to hear me no matter what i said or how loud I said it, she would assume things but never was able for lack of competence to the degree called for to recognize let alone KNOW WHAT TO DO, so she QUIT, GAVE UP, gutted any and ALL good I had gotten for first time in life , and I had gotten good. Dorene showed me beauty, creativity, kindness - Things ANY TRAUMA client will tell you is soo hard to handle and more often than not will trigger an adverse event, a "part" needing to be heard; Seek out Teresa Lanahan LCSW, she'll see you through TRAUMA HELL."

"I did not think I needed to talk to anyone. My marriage wasn’t the best but we was trying. Wife says talk to someone so I did. I thought in the beginning this may be alright. Huh My marriage got worse. I talked to my buddy who is doing this together with his. He suggested we do that together too. I don’t want any more divorce stuff from this guy. It’s hard right but somehow things got worse. Said my wife was to blame for most stuff. Right away I’m like great someone on my side for a change. But she’s not like that. Took my friend to point out the holes ya know? I start listening different and doing my own thinking. I was being led to think the worst not to see the good we have. Gave my wife all sorts of labels laughed like we been close. My wife’s all mad I started this new man of the house stuff. Said we weren’t partners anymore and I needed to find God again. I stopped talking to this guy and started talking to my wife. We ain’t perfect we love each other and this guy made me feel cold to my wife. What kind of therapy does this? Just felt like if I didn’t agree with him I was wrong. Had enough of that in my life. Started asking him questions, we have far different right/left views. Helped me see how I was being led. Nope. Wife and I are doing better now. All we needed was each other and god "