Off trail · Richmond
Now accepting new clients · evening and weekend hours available
Therapy for adults in Richmond
The capital of the Commonwealth, and a city built around taking care of people: the medical campus, the state agencies, the universities, the nonprofits. Richmond asks a lot of its caretakers, and the ones who hold everyone else up don’t always have somewhere to set it down. Dr. Thaxter sees adults across Richmond by telehealth, and she is currently accepting new clients.
What people come in with
A general practice for adults, by telehealth.
Richmond runs on people who take care of other people for a living, and on everyone else holding down the jobs that keep a capital city moving. What walks in the virtual door from here looks familiar: the nurse or physician who can’t turn off the shift, the state employee carrying a department on their back, the new parent in the Fan wondering why this is so much harder than it looked, the long-standing anxiety that has simply become part of the furniture.
Anxiety and depression
Including the kind that has gone on so long it feels normal, and the burnout a demanding job leaves behind.
Trauma and PTSD
Something that happened, and the years spent building a life around not looking at it. Cognitive Processing Therapy, from a listed provider on the national CPT roster. Trauma and PTSD therapy →
The postpartum year
The worry that will not switch off, the thoughts that arrive uninvited, and the loneliness of being told you should be happy.
Sleep and chronic pain
CBT for insomnia, and pain psychology from a clinician whose doctoral research was chronic pain.
Grief and hard stretches
A loss, a marriage under strain, a career that stopped fitting, a move, a diagnosis. Not everything worth therapy is a disorder.
Emotion regulation
DBT skills for the feeling that arrives faster than the thinking, and the patterns that have stopped serving you.
If you take care of people for a living
Dr. Thaxter trained in the VA system, and clinicians, nurses, and others in caregiving roles are familiar ground here. People who hold everyone else up rarely have somewhere to set it down. This can be that place. Everyone is welcome here, and nothing about the practice is limited to them.
Telehealth, here
No office. No waiting room. No drive down I-95.
Between the river, the interstates, and the parking decks, getting across Richmond for a standing appointment is its own part-time job. Sessions from home, from a parked car, or from a private office on a lunch break all work. The one rule is that you are physically in Virginia at the time, which the whole city satisfies.
Every approach used here is evidence-based: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. The plan comes out of a full intake. There’s no separate step to get through first: one button books a free consultation, an intake for individual therapy, or a place in a group, and it takes about two minutes. How therapy works here →
You don’t have to have it figured out to start.
Not sure where to start? Book a free 15-minute consultation with Dr. Thaxter: a short, live call over telehealth about what is going on and whether this is the right place, with no paperwork and no charge. When you are ready, the same button lets you book an intake for individual therapy or enroll in a group. Everything runs through the secure client portal, and the first step takes about two minutes. If you would rather talk first, call (571) 206-0096 or send a message.