Accepting Medicare, Care First, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Insurance; Adjustable Fee Schedule

Psychotherapy Practice

I am a clinical social work and public health professional licensed in Virginia and New York. Bringing a nuanced perspective to psychotherapy honed through many years of experience and clinical work both in the U.S. and abroad, I provide guidance to patients through different seasons of life and in a variety of practice areas, including multi-cultural mental health, work/life balance, parenting options including adoption, medical challenges and the dynamics of aging.

As a clinical social worker, I focus on private psychotherapy services in the areas shown below.

Therapist Areas of Practice

  • Acute or Long-term Caregiving
  • Adoption
  • Aging
  • Anxiety and Phobias
  • Career and Work
  • Medical Issues-Chronic Illness
  • Parenting
  • Pregnancy and/or Fertility
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Transitions

Therapist Modality

  • Clinical Supervision
  • Consultation
  • Group
  • Individuals
  • Family
  • Couples

Treatment Orientations

  • Eclectic
  • Strategic Family Therapy
  • Mind/Body Integration
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
Consulting Social Worker for Training and Advising

Consultation Services

Clinical Social Work Supervision

I have a strong interest in helping to shape the next generation of clinical social workers and provide clinical social work supervision. In addition to having served as a social work supervisor with many agencies and organizations, I have been both a graduate school social work field work supervisor and public health practicum preceptor. I have also been a social work lecturer in the US and abroad.

Consulting

I provide consultative services to training, clinical and community organizations and individuals in my specialized areas of practice.

About Me

Annemarie Russell-Social Worker-Northern Virginia
Annemarie Russell, Social Work, Washington, DC area

I am a licensed clinical social work and global public health professional based in Alexandria, Virginia who has spent the past 35 years working internationally and domestically on a myriad of social welfare issues including refugee and immigration services; health and human rights; cross cultural mental health; HIV/AIDS; maternal and child health, welfare and adoption; domestic violence; community development; family planning and older adult life transitions.

I have been supervising BSW and MSW supervisees for over 25 years. I am a Virginia Certified Clinical Social Work Supervisor. I am on the Faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry, Center for the Study of Aging and serve on its Steering Committee.

I earned my MSW from Adelphi University and my Masters of Public Health from Columbia University in New York. I trained at the Family Therapy Institute of Washington in Advanced Strategic Family Therapy and I am certified in community crisis and disaster mental health and trauma resiliency. I am currently completing doctoral studies in gerontology and health education.

Contact Me

Office Hours by Appointment Only

Fax: 703-823-2830
5249 Duke Street
Suite 200
Alexandria VA 22304