About me

As a licensed therapist in Virginia, I bring over two decades of professional experience supporting individuals through complex emotional landscapes. My practice centers on creating affirming, compassionate spaces for clients navigating challenges like depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and social anxiety.

I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ communities, veterans, and individuals experiencing workplace stress, mood disorders, and attachment challenges. My approach is deeply empathetic and tailored to each person's unique journey, with a particular focus on addressing isolation, shame, panic disorders, and relationship dynamics.

Drawing from extensive clinical expertise, I offer supportive guidance for those exploring identity, processing difficult life transitions, and healing from past experiences. My therapeutic style emphasizes understanding, respect, and collaborative growth, helping clients develop resilient coping strategies and rediscover personal strength. My work is also influenced by the methods of Psychodrama created by J. L. Moreno. Through technique like empty chair and exploration of roles, my hope is to help my clients increase their creativity and spontaneity so that they can find new and adequate solutions to past, current, and future problems.

Specialties

  • Addictions
  • LGBT
  • Trauma and abuse
  • Grief
  • Depression
Also experienced in:
Stress, Anxiety , Family conflicts , Sleeping disorders , Parenting issues , Anger management , Self esteem , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Coping with life changes , Abandonment , Adoption and foster care , Read more...

Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Years of Experience: 24

Services offered


  • Messaging

  • Live Chat

  • Phone

  • Video

Licensing

VA LPC 0701010945

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Menzo Faassen. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Teen Counseling might be different.

Written on Aug 18, 2026 after therapy with Menzo for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, anger management, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd

Help me so much ! Never can thank
him enough for helping me on my healing journey . Listening to me , laughing with me and helping me reframe my thoughts . He is the real deal . Everyone should have a Menzo they can talk to !

Written on Aug 01, 2026 after therapy with Menzo for 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship issues, family conflicts, anger management, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and adhd

Menzo is the best therapist I've encountered and I work in mental health myself. I highly recommend him to anyone who is struggling.

Written on Jul 07, 2026 after therapy with Menzo for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, parenting issues, and self esteem

Menzo is kind, understanding, and asks all the right questions. I would highly recommend him to anyone.

Written on Jun 16, 2026 after therapy with Menzo for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd

Very easy to drop my wall and talk open and honestly which is hard.
Doesn’t judge.
Makes me feel glad I did it after the fact.
Excellent job and therapist

Written on Apr 23, 2026 after therapy with Menzo for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, and self esteem

Very helpful

Written on Jul 15, 2025 after therapy with Menzo for 3 months on issues concerning family conflicts, grief, and sleeping disorders

He is a great person and helped me in a great manner!

Written on May 09, 2024 after therapy with Menzo for 2 weeks on issues concerning lgbt

He listens to what you have to say but also offers you advice and tools to help you.

Written on Sep 25, 2022 after therapy with Menzo for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and self esteem

Menzo has been absolutely vital in helping me discover aspects of myself that I've been trying to figure out for years. Extremely patient, friendly, and has a depth of knowledge that is very helpful. I wholeheartedly recommend seeing Menzo as your therapist!

Written on Jul 31, 2022 after therapy with Menzo for 3 weeks on issues concerning addictions, and family conflicts

Menzo Fassen has been very valuable to me in my recovery process. It has been great having a professional to speak to that can relate to most of the traumas I have dealt with in the past. I would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone I knew that was dealing with the same issues as I have in the past.

Written on Jun 12, 2022 after therapy with Menzo for 3 months on issues concerning relationship issues, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and coping with life changes

Menzo is amazing, 100/10! Helped me with so much in so little time :)

Written on Oct 06, 2021 after therapy with Menzo for 1 year and 5 months

Our son, who resisted counseling in the beginning, values his time with Menzo tremendously. We've seen such an improvement in his mood and coping skills. I am so thankful we found this option for our son.

Written on Nov 09, 2020 after therapy with Menzo for 2 months on issues concerning addictions, anger management, and adhd

Menzo is a kind, thoughtful man. He is a surprising (refreshing) mix of good listener and direct with questions. I've appreciated his insight into my mind, and no punches pulled when he sees an area of unhealthiness or weakness I don't. I sincerely recommend him to bring your life and mind wisdom, balance, and health.

Written on Jul 07, 2020 after therapy with Menzo for 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and coaching

Menzo is my favorite therapist I’ve had to date. He’s always energetic, engaging, and really gets to the bottom of the issues I’m facing. Those around me have noticed huge improvement in me, and a large part of that all is thanks to this wonderful man. Can’t recommend him enough, especially if you’re LGBTQ+

Written on May 16, 2020 after therapy with Menzo for 3 days on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, self esteem, and adhd

It was a short period but he was great! Very helpful, gave me some good little morsels of information that I will definitely use in my day to day. I'm grateful to him.

Written on Mar 30, 2019 after therapy with Menzo for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, and compassion fatigue

Menzo Faassen shattered my perception about how a therapist can help. He was courteous, thoughtful, and offered amazing insight. He gave objectivity to a very difficult struggle! I can’t thank him enough.

Written on Jul 06, 2018 after therapy with Menzo for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related

Menzo has been working with me for only a few weeks and already he’s been able to point out some key things for me to work on. Things that haven’t been pointed out with counselors that I have worked with for many years.

I feel comfortable talking with him. He’s timely and thoughtful with his responses and if he hasn’t heard from me in a few days he always reaches out just to let me know hes there if I need him. It’s been amazing to be able to communicate at my own pace. Seeing an in-person counselor it can be hard to 1- remember everything that’s happened week to week, and 2- try to fit in all my trauma that I’m working through in one hour. With this method, and with Menzo as my counselor, it doesn’t feel as daunting.

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