Chris DeRoco, LMFT-R, serves as a counselor and Director of Redemption Hill Counseling. In addition to having 20 years of experience of helping people in church and community contexts, he has a M.A. of Counseling and is licensed by the Virginia Board of Counseling as a Resident in Marriage and Family Counseling. He is currently supervised by Margaret Sheehan, LMFT.
Chris seeks to address the psychological, biological, social, and spiritual realities of emotional and relational distress. His counseling style involves exploring personal history and current circumstances to identify, process, and address feelings, thoughts, behaviors, assumptions and relational patterns.
Chris employs various approaches, including:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Trauma Informed
- Structural Family Therapy
- Strength-Based