Eva Allison, Resident In Counseling |Phone: 703-832-9277 Email:  jacqueline.lubovich@yahoo.com  | Psychology Today Profile: Click here

I view therapy as an opportunity to work with you (the client) to co-create a healing experience unique to you. I can use various approaches depending on your needs. However, I tend to lean heavily on a trauma-informed base with elements of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), narrative therapy (how the stories we tell and create shape our lived experience), and existential therapy (how we make meaning of ourselves and the world). Below are some additional guiding thoughts that may help you get a sense of what working with me is like. In no particular order:

• I encourage you to come as you are to therapy. I welcome all parts of yourself, all identities, and whatever stage you may be in. It will lead to a more authentic, and ultimately helpful, therapeutic experience. 
• Related: Recognizing the oppressive systems that we live in can be helpful in understanding ourselves. I look forward to open and curious dialogue about your personal experiences with marginalization and/or privilege.
• Both/And: The idea that two, seemingly incongruent, things can be simultaneously true. You love your partner AND you are angry at them. Allowing our minds to expand possibilities and embrace complexity can reduce distress, and help set us up to take action or make changes. 
• We can’t control our emotions, only what we do with them. We can learn skills that help us be in a relationship with our emotions (particularly our challenging ones like anxiety, anger, grief, shame, and sadness), rather than be controlled by them. 
• I come from a non-pathologizing approach that prioritizes your lived experience over a medical label and I believe that exploring formal diagnosis can be deeply freeing–knowledge can be empowering. It can give you valuable information to make important decisions about your care. The decision is yours. I welcome discussion about how you want to incorporate diagnosis into your work with me.
• I deeply value therapeutic curiosity in working with my clients. Curiosity is a skill we can use to develop self-awareness while putting a pause on our judgment and shame of whatever difficult feelings, thoughts, and behaviors we are addressing. Curiosity helps us lower our well-built defenses in a safe and affirming way.

I work with adults and kids as well as couples and families of any configuration. Issues I work with include: anxiety, depression, relationship issues, grief/loss/bereavement, chronic pain/disability/living with illness, identity development, trauma and PTSD, addiction and substance use, life changes, and transitions.

Please reach out to schedule a free 15-minute consultation to learn more about working together. 

I am a Resident in Counseling (license no. 704017772) and work under the supervision of Jessica McNair, LPC (license no. 0701004421).