Combining the art of compassionate therapy, consultation, and coaching with the science of change to help you shift the patterns of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that keep you stuck.
Primary modalities: Internal Family Systems Therapy; EMDR; Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
About Angela
I am an experienced licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia. I work with individuals, couples, and families. I believe that clients have an innate ability to heal and I strive to meet them where they are in a non-pathologizing way.
My approach is collaborative, educational, and experiential. I welcome clients from all sexual, gender, cultural and spiritual orientations.
I am a certified IFS therapist and a certified EMDR therapist. I have advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. I incorporate mindfulness, breath work and spirituality into my work as appropriate.
I believe that when we are out of alignment with ourselves or with our partners, our system (body, mind, spirit) lets us know. Sometimes our system uses the language of depression. Sometimes worry and anxiety. Sometimes anger or sadness. Sometimes aches and pains.
Sometimes, however, our behaviors, beliefs and symptoms no longer serve us. I work to help you realign to a way of being that works in current time. I help you get unstuck.
Talk therapy isn’t enough. For lasting change to occur, we have to beyond the words to include the emotions and sensations we experience. Using a variety of techniques, I help you do just that. I want you to be able to thrive in the life you want!
I have been studying and working in the field of mental health for more than 30 years. I earned my bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Nebraska, and a masters and Ph.D. in Family Studies & Human Development at the University of Arizona. For 17 years, I was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Human Development’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Virginia Tech in Falls Church, VA. I taught both clinical and research courses, supervised graduate students in their clinical work, and conducted and published research related to military families and adjustment. I left academia and entered full-time private practice in 2016.
Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist (IFS)
Certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapist (EMDR)
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT)
Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique)
Interpersonal Neurobiology
LifeForce Yoga
Sixth Sensory Living
What if… I could show you a way to reconnect with the whole of who you are, in service to your highest purpose as you know it? What if I could help you break out of the invisible prison in which you have been living--the one that keeps you small and scared? I have been in the field of mental health for 30 years--as a professor, a researcher and a clinician. I hold a Ph.D. in human development and am a licensed marriage and family therapist. What I have noticed in my work is that at the very core of most mental health issues is a deep longing for connection. We want to be seen and understood. We need to feel valued. All the “symptoms” that bring people to my office are really just adaptive strategies, protectors of our hearts, designed to help us get connection or to numb us from the pain of not having it. These maladies happen when we think we are in it alone. They are a side effect of disconnection. Indeed, study after study confirms that loneliness, another word for disconnected, is correlated with heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, substance use, depression, anxiety and a host of other mental health problems (Hawkley & Caciopopo, 2010). Symptoms aren’t the enemy—they are the markers of disconnection.
I wrote this book to share a glimpse of what I have learned on this journey to freedom and to invite you to come out of the darkness of the internal prison in which you may be caught. It describes the process I have learned and refined over the years in my practice as a psychotherapist, university professor, and full time spiritual seeker. It’s what I have found in my personal work and what I do with my clients and in my workshops. It’s my profession and my passion. The tools are an amalgamation of what I have been drawn to over the past three decades. This includes an understanding of our neurobiology (our “hardwiring” for connection), developmental psychology (how we “learn” to connect), and psychotherapy (tools for helping us reconnect). The ideas presented here are anchored in stories of my own incarceration and escape as well as composite case studies of my clients (identifying information has been changed to protect confidentiality).
Consultation & Workshops
I offer workshops and trainings for both professional and lay audiences, including mental health providers, educators, clergy, and community groups. I have the gift of integrating a wide variety of ideas and presenting them in way that is accessible and applicable to my audience.
I offer multiple workshops for learning Internal Family Systems, including:
Introduction to IFS: Clinical Protocol
Refining the Instrument: Self of the Therapist from and IFS approach
Spirituality and IFS
Jailbreak: Breaking Out of Our Invisible Prisons
Interpersonal neurobiology for psychotherapy: Harnessing the Science of Change
Workshops can be done virtually or in person and rage from 1/2 day to multi-day events!
“Angela is a gifted and engaging presenter. I’d take any opportunity to hear her talk. In addition to her sophisticated understanding of her subject matter, she brings energy, a sense of humor, a generous heart, and a willingness to engage her audience that make her workshops wonderful experiences. She is excellent at taking specialized ideas, making them accessible, and connecting them to the real lives of her audience. I always learn something from Angela’s presentations! Go see her!”
—WORKSHOP ATTENDEE
”I have now attended multiple workshops with Angela. She is filled with enthusiasm for her subject matter and open-hearted warmth for her students. I have participated in multiple IFS trainings, including through Level 2, and I have had fine trainers. None have been better than Angela. I heartily endorse her and the IFS-related training she offers.”
—WORKSHOP ATTENDEE
”Recently I had the pleasure of attending a workshop put on by Angela Huebner called “IFS advanced workshop: Refining the instrument.” The workshop was a wonderful 2 day event, where Angela facilitated teaching and practice centered around The Self as Therapist and Self Care in that light. Angela was an amazing teacher, who was incredibly knowledgeable and proficient. She has a welcoming, Self Led energy that made the learning easy and applicable. Participants I spoke to began to implement the information immediately to help deepen their own ability to be as self led as possible in the therapy room. I am grateful for Angela’s knowledge and availability, and plan to utilize her as an ongoing resource in my work with both myself and my clients. I highly recommend her!”
—WORKSHOP ATTENDEE”
“Angela facilitated our Colorado Women’s Retreat for two days this fall. Her presentation, “Jailbreak: The Making and Breaking of our Invisible Prisons” was the most amazing and fun learning experience we’ve ever had. Angela combines her intelligence and love of research with her warm and humorous style of teaching most effectively. She has that rare ability to present complex material in a most engaging way that makes it fun to learn. With her many years of experience as a University professor, researcher and clinical therapist, Angela has the depth and knowledge necessary to integrate a wide scope of theoretical information that we can use to enrich and improve our everyday lives. I cannot recommend Angela’s work highly enough.
—WORKSHOP ATTENDEE”
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“It’s surprisingly difficult to find a therapist who can manage empathy, insight, connection, structure and science in one session, but Angela Huebner does all this and more. She pushes you to explore your truths in a safe, if still challenging, environment.
We both feel equally at ease with her and trust her completely. Her steady, positive guidance has helped us recognize opportunities for enhanced communications and connection as a couple.
Her visual analogies are incredibly helpful in framing problems and become coping mechanisms that stick long after we have left the office. Importantly, she seems to work with the aim of putting herself out of business – giving us the tools and strategies to go forth without her. ”
“Angela is a gifted and engaging presenter. I’d take any opportunity to hear her talk. In addition to her sophisticated understanding of her subject matter, she brings energy, a sense of humor, a generous heart, and a willingness to engage her audience that make her workshops wonderful experiences. She is excellent at taking specialized ideas, making them accessible, and connecting them to the real lives of her audience. I always learn something from Angela’s presentations! Go see her! ”
“Angela facilitated our Colorado Women’s Retreat for two days this fall. Her presentation, “Jailbreak: The Making and Breaking of our Invisible Prisons” was the most amazing and fun learning experience we’ve ever had.
Angela combines her intelligence and love of research with her warm and humorous style of teaching most effectively. She has that rare ability to present complex material in a most engaging way that makes it fun to learn.
With her many years of experience as a University professor, researcher and clinical therapist, Angela has the depth and knowledge necessary to integrate a wide scope of theoretical information that we can use to enrich and improve our everyday lives. I cannot recommend Angela’s work highly enough.”
The number of sessions needed for successful resolution varies from client to client. I believe my job is to work myself out of a job as quickly and effectively as possible. We start with a 15-minute intake call in which you tell me about your interest in therapy. If it feels like a good fit over the phone, we schedule our first session.
In the first few sessions, I will learn more about you and together we will begin to refine your goals for therapy. Based on your goals, I will design a treatment strategy tailored to your specific needs. Typically, clients (individuals or couples) start with weekly or bi-weekly sessions.
Consistency is important in the beginning so we can gain momentum in the work. As we progress, time between sessions can increase. Some clients find resolution in a period of weeks or months. Others take longer. Some “finish” and come back from time to time for a tune up. If I believe I am no longer serving you effectively, I will provide you with referral suggestions.
Monday 10:00am to 6:00pm
Tuesday 10:00am to 7:00pm
Wednesday: 3p to 6pm
Thursday 11:00am to 6:00pm
Friday 9:00am to 1:00pm
Note that the fee for treatment is $240-$250 per hour, payable at each session via check, cash, or credit card (cash or check preferred).
I do not participate in insurance plans but will provide you with a bill you can submit to your insurance provider if allowed.
*Please Note: If you have timing needs outside of what's listed above, please contact me to make other arrangements by special appointment. There is limited flexibility M-F only.
