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Monday 9am - 7pm Tuesday 8am - 7pm Wednesday 8am - 7pm Thursday 8am - 7pm Friday 8am - 5pm Saturday 8am - 1pm

Crescent Counseling Center LLC

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Crescent Counseling Center LLC

Women-owned mental and behavioral health counseling practice located in Alexandria, Virginia.

12/18/2025

The holidays make December hectic. If you’re craving rest, quiet time, or just fewer plans, that’s totally okay. Think of this season as a chance to slow down and move with the natural rhythm of winter.

How has December felt for you??

12/16/2025

✨ Featured Clinician Spotlight ✨

Diamond Allen, MA
Resident in Counseling

Diamond’s therapeutic style is integrative, incorporating CBT, DBT, Psychodynamic, and Narrative Therapy techniques. She is passionate about creating a comfortable and open environment where clients feel safe to learn and grow. Diamond also enjoys integrating mindfulness and expressive arts into her work to help clients achieve their counseling goals. Deeply committed to multicultural competence and social justice advocacy, she tailors each client’s experience to honor their individuality and maximize their personal growth.

Clinical Areas of Interest: anxiety & depression, trauma/EMDR, mood disorders, sexual and intimacy disorders, anger management

12/09/2025

💫Featured Clinician Spotlight 💫

Sierra Thorpe, M.Ed, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Sierra’s therapeutic style is integrative, drawing primarily from CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, and schema therapy approaches. She believes the heart of therapy lies in the connection between client and clinician and works to build a space rooted in trust, comfort, and authenticity. Her goal is to help clients feel safe to explore their emotions, process their experiences, and find meaningful growth.

Outside the office, Sierra loves cuddling with her cat, drawing, experimenting with new DIY projects, and rewatching her favorite comfort shows.

Clinical Areas of Interest: ADHD, Anxiety, Adolescent Mental Health, LGBTQ+

12/02/2025

🌙 Featured Clinician Spotlight 🌙

Natalie Both, MSW
Supervisee in Social Work / Intake Coordinator

In her clinical work, Natalie takes an integrative, client-centered approach, drawing from a blend of evidence-based modalities to support each person’s goals. Her style is warm, collaborative, and empathetic, paired with thoughtful structure that encourages insight and growth. She is passionate about empowering clients to identify their strengths, build motivation for change, and apply practical tools to manage stress, transitions, and emotional challenges.

When she’s not providing therapy or supporting new clients through the intake process, Natalie enjoys spending time with friends and family, working her way through an ever-growing reading list, and relaxing in a hammock at the park.

Clinical Areas of Interest: Child/Adolescent Mental Health, Anxiety/Depression, Grief & Loss, ADHD

11/26/2025

🍂 🍁 🍃 🦃

Small reminder: gratitude looks good on everyone.

11/25/2025

🌟 Featured Clinician Spotlight 🌟

Sydney Iwanski, MA/Ed.S, LPC

Sydney believes that every person has inherent worth and unique gifts. She strives to create a warm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental environment for children, adolescents, and adults to explore their inner worlds and take meaningful steps toward growth and healing. Her work is rooted in a trauma-informed and attachment-based framework, drawing from a range of modalities including DBT, CBT, Narrative Therapy, Play Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and Somatic Psychotherapy.

Sydney enjoys cooking, playing card games, and listening to music.

11/24/2025

New on the blog: Clinician Elizabeth Parola walks through the foundations of CPT and how it helps people move forward after trauma.
If you’ve been curious about this approach, this post is a great place to start!
🔗 Link in bio.

11/18/2025

💫 Featured Clinician Spotlight 💫

Nazanin Saadati Altamirano, M.Ed, LPC

Nazanin’s work is grounded in a humanistic, strength-based philosophy. She focuses on holistic transformation—helping clients cultivate self-compassion, make empowered choices, and reconnect with their inner strengths and wisdom. Her experience includes working with trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-esteem, relationship challenges, and life transitions. Warm, empathetic, and direct, Nazanin draws on collaborative and evidence-based methods such as CBT, DBT, and attachment-based therapy. As a first-generation Iranian, she is deeply committed to supporting multicultural and LGBTQ+ communities and is a strong advocate for intersectional identity and social justice.

Outside of work, Nazanin enjoys spending time with her husband and their dog, discovering new restaurants, and traveling.

11/03/2025

We currently have a free “pantry” in our downstairs lobby.

Take what you need, leave what you can. Let’s support each other and keep kindness flowing in our community.

10/21/2025

Ever feel haunted by the need to make everyone happy?
The people-pleasing cycle can feel like a spooky spell —
you say “yes” to keep the peace, feel relief for a moment…
and then p**f! resentment creeps back in.

Let’s break the spell! 🧙‍♀️ 💫

Call us or send us a message.

10/06/2025

Therapy Snack Unboxing! We all have our favorite go-to snacks but what does that say about us?

Tell us: what is your favorite go-to snack?

09/16/2025

Ever heard of Junk Journaling? One of our LPC clinicians, Nicole (also art therapist extraordinaire 🖼️ 🎨) tells us all about her group this summer.

“Hi - Nicole here! Over the summer, I ran a middle school girls process group with my co-leader, Natalie. This group was centered around junk journaling - my new favorite way to express myself and document recent happenings in my life. Each of the girls (including Natalie and myself) brought in what some may perceive as “junk” to include in our journals from our lives that week. We brought things like receipts, order stickers from coffee shops, and printed pictures. During group, we processed our week, explored anxiety about the upcoming transition to middle school, and practiced social skills in a fun, relaxing environment. We used our group room and spread out every kind of art supply you can think of - and you can be sure there was excessive use of glitter glue and silly stickers. It was so fun to see how creative everyone got with what they’d bring in and how they’d style it on each spread! If you’re looking for your own junk journal inspiration, I recommend searching it on Instagram and Pinterest.”

Address

6400 Grovedale Drive, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA
22310

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 7pm
Tuesday	8am - 7pm
Wednesday	8am - 7pm
Thursday	8am - 7pm
Friday	8am - 5pm
Saturday	8am - 1pm

Telephone

+15714149645

Website

http://www.crescentcounselingva.com/

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