COUNSELING CENTER
Welcome to the
Counseling Center
Serving the needs of our community with quality and affordable care.
About
The Counseling Center at Burke Community Church transforms lives through focused actions that provide immediate relief and long-term solutions leading to healthy life and authentic relationships with Christ and with others.
We accomplish this mission through strong collaboration, integrated services, and complementary care and counseling efforts. In all actions, we strive to model Christ and demonstrate His love to our congregation and local community. We seek to treat people with dignity, provide them hope, and equip and inspire them for healthy life transformation.
In June 2016, our Elder Council sought the Lord’s guidance out of a desire to faithfully respond to the overwhelming blessings He had bestowed upon our church. The elders asked, “What can we do now to prepare for what God has next for Burke Community Church?” God answered by moving on their hearts to commission an effort that would pass God’s blessings deeper into our church and surrounding community.
This answer gave birth to the vision to utilize our expanded facilities and resources to establish a center that would transform lives and impact culture with God’s timeless truth and life-giving gospel. Now, after considerable research and planning, we held our grand opening on Sunday, September 26, 2021 and celebrated the realization this vision as our new Counseling Center!
The Counseling Center is located at Burke Community Church at 9900 Old Keene Mill Road in Burke, Virginia. Map & Directions
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Counseling
The Counseling Center at Burke Community Church (BCC) provides biblically centered, psychologically informed professional counseling and related services to foster healthy life and deeper relationships with Christ and each other for persons within BCC and the local community.
We provide comprehensive services to restore and heal emotional, mental, and spiritual health of persons in the community through biblically based counseling that is integrated with effective insights from psychology and social science. Our services empower persons with a healthy understanding of self and equip persons for a deeper relationship with Christ and others.
We understand that time and geography can be barriers to receiving counseling. We are pleased to offer both telehealth and in-person services.
We seek to provide a safe, caring environment that values you and recognizes your inherent significance to the Lord and this world. You are the only unique you, and we want to treasure and celebrate that as we partner with you in a therapeutic relationship to develop the healthy life you desire. We will help you clarify the goals for life change you seek and will support your success in achieving these goals.
We offer counseling for:
- individuals, couples, and families
- children, adolescents, and adults, including the elderly
We offer professional counseling grounded in a biblical perspective for life issues related to:
- anxiety
- grief
- loss
- depression
- anger management
- child and adolescent issues
- parenting challenges
- trauma
- life transition and adjustment
- eating issues
- alcohol and drug problems
- unhealthy sexual activity
- pornography use
- Christian life
- obsessive/compulsive issues
- marriage preparation
- divorce recovery
- marriage counseling for biological and blended families
We are committed to providing services that are affordable to those in our community; therefore, we offer professional mental health counseling at a rate of $60 a session. Most sessions are 50-60 minutes. We do not bill insurance companies for services, but, if requested, we will provide you the information you need to file an out-of-network claim.
Our Counseling Team
Bob Thornton
A native Texan, Bob joined the staff in 2011 after a final Pentagon assignment following an Army career in Military Intelligence. He holds master’s degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary in Christian Leadership and Professional Counseling. Bob integrates insights from Scripture and psychology to empower people for a healthy life enriched by a deeper relationship with God, self, and others. He has a special passion to foster healthy, vitalized marriages. Bob and Kathi, his wife of over 29 years, enjoy catching movies and cheering for the Dallas Cowboys when not doing their favorite thing – fun family time with their kids.
Bethany Hardy
Bethany is a licensed professional counselor and board-certified supervisor in Virginia and in New Hampshire. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families for both individual and group counseling. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. Bethany has experience working with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, grief, severe mental illnesses, substance use, abuse, domestic violence, co-dependency, parenting and family issues and issues related to faith.
Julianne Stewart
Julianne is a Licensed Professional Counselor and received her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She uses a variety of evidence based approaches to counseling, including but not limited to, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), mind/body, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), using a person centered approach. She has experience working with children and adults who have experienced trauma, sexual assault, anxiety, eating disorders, depression, grief, and other life challenges.
Kelly McGuire
Kelly is a Resident in Counseling and earned her MA in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. She uses a variety of evidence-based interventions with her clients including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Exposure Response Prevention Therapy (ERP). Kelly has experience working with children and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self- injury, relational problems and other difficult life experiences.
Amy Zacaroli
Zoie Berry
Zoie received her bachelor’s degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University and her Master of Arts in Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary. Zoie uses a variety of evidence based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and takes a person-centered approach in her counseling. These approaches serve to aid clients in counseling with techniques, tools, and time in order to work through issues such as depression, anxiety, self-esteem, anger, and interpersonal problems.
Fre Ghebreselassie
Fre is an Intern in Counseling as she pursues her Master of Arts in Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary. Her calling to counseling is complemented with a Master of Science in psychiatric nursing which Fre utilizes as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at an adult inpatient psychiatric unit at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Fre has experience working with acute psychiatric conditions including bipolar disorders, major depression, anxiety, substance use, and she has a special interest in integrating faith with psychology as she utilizes various counseling techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in helping others.
Jillian Workman
Jillian is an Intern in Counseling, pursuing a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Colorado Christian University. Jillian has a background in legislative policy, specifically focused on veterans, with experience working in both the public and private sectors. As a counselor, Jillian desires to support individuals on their journey to find meaning and purpose. She has deep empathy for those whose stories are not what they imagined. Jillian believes that each individual is the expert in their story and utilizes person-centered, evidenced-based practices in her work with clients.
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