OUR TEAM
You Are Welcome Here
You Are Welcome Here
You Are Welcome Here
No matter who you come in contact with at RVA Health, be assured you will be treated with warmth, and compassion. Individual therapy, coaching groups, and workshops all provide support in safe environments.
Michelle O'Brien
You Are Welcome Here
You Are Welcome Here
Licensed Professional Counselor, Health Coach, Mind Body Specialist
our services
Counseling: Get unstuck!
support groups: Don't GO IT ALONE
support groups: Don't GO IT ALONE
Wellness counseling explores how people get healthy and stay healthy, manage weight, find motivation, recover from illness, manage stress, move through trauma, or cope with a chronic health condition.
We help you improve your physical and mental health through self-awareness, emotional healing and cognitive and behavioral change.
support groups: Don't GO IT ALONE
support groups: Don't GO IT ALONE
support groups: Don't GO IT ALONE
We offer group coaching and workshops to address
Weight & Wellness
Stress Management
Self-Image
Recovery from Emotional Abuse
Motivation
NPD
Assertiveness
we specialize in:
Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness
Do you dread exercise? Wish you could change your eating habits? Do you stay up too late and always feel tired? We teach you how to make changes, how to stick with those changes and how to recognize when it is time to switch things up.
Relationships
Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness
Do your friendships feel one sided? Do you keep dating the "mistakes"? We can help you recognize and change unhelpful emotional habits and thinking styles. Forming and maintaining boundaries is a truly life changing skill!
Motivation & Decision Making
Motivation & Decision Making
Motivation & Decision Making
The secret to motivation can be found in understanding your true needs and embracing your strengths as well as your weaknesses. Stop working against yourself! Motivation flows when you discover your values.
Anxiety
Motivation & Decision Making
Motivation & Decision Making
Anxiety can make it difficult to get through the day and impossible to sleep at night. Learn how to understand and manage anxiety and free yourself from the hold it has on you.
Our Health & Wellness Philosophy
The Science of Compassion
Your mental & physical health are linked.
"Just try harder" is not a sustainable, long-term strategy.
"Exercise more and eat less" does not work on a practical level.
Focusing only on diet and exercise leads to frustration.
Most of us have years of evidence to support this.
"Willpower" eventually fails us all. Self-criticism and shame are not great motivators. Instead of recycled, outdated (and frustrating!) approaches to health & behavior change, you will find a different philosophy here. Self-compassion can cultivate the curiosity that will allow you to find your own path to wellness and a positive body image -- for good.
What you eat & how you exercise is unique to you & varies over time. You do not need to feel bad because you’re not doing what someone else is doing. Instead of feeling guilty, we can help you learn to use that energy to identify your own needs and truly take care of yourself. We look at each individual from a holistic perspective that includes physical, social, and psychological needs.
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WE BELIEVE:
If you can figure out how you really feel,
you can figure out what you need.
If you can figure out what you need,
you can find a less caloric way to meet that need.
What's new
COMING SOON - New group now forming
Exploring the Shadow
Discover your shadow isn’t so dark. We all have one–a shadow self–the unconscious and denied facets of our personalities. Cuddling up to the shadow may seem counterintuitive, yet it is a source of freedom from anxiety, trauma, anger, physical illness and pain, eating and body concerns. Your shadow is funny, creative, smart, and protective.
CALENDAR & Events
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