Dr. Villines is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with child, adolescent, and adult populations. She provides individual, family, and couples therapy, as well as comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations. Dr. Villines further specializes in working with individuals and families who are legally involved. She specializes in working with complex family systems issues, often including divorce, child custody, domestic violence, and child abuse. She is experienced in working within the legal system and frequently provides expert testimony. Additional specialized areas of service involve helping children, adolescents, and adults who have been in abusive situations, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse/coercive control. In addition to providing trauma-informed care to such clients, Dr. Villines helps them navigate frequent social service and legal challenges. Dr. Villines is committed to a boutique practice model, valuing client care over client numbers. She fully invests in providing 'best practice' care to her clients and views the therapeutic relationship, based on trust, respect, active listening, validation, and honesty, as the key elements necessary for clients to feel safe enough to heal, grow, and change.
Qualifications: | American School of Professional Psychology - Washington, D.C. Campus |
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Academic Suffixes: | PsyD |
Expertise: | Anger Management, Anxiety, Autism, Behavioral Issues, Child or Adolescent, Depression, Divorce, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Family Conflict, Grief, Life Transitions, Marital and Premarital, Men |