Welcome to Lighthouse Counseling. Therapy is based upon boundaries and trust. Please carefully review the following information since it is the foundation on which the counseling relationship is built.

Professional Disclosure: Bienvenidos a Lighthouse Counseling. Therapy is based upon boundaries and trust. Please carefully review the following information since it is the foundation on which our counseling relationship will be built. 

I am Jessica Salinas Rodriguez, and I have extensive experience with Active Duty, Veterans, First Responders, their families, and survivors of sex trafficking and domestic violence. I work with Individuals, Couples, Active Duty, Veterans, and their families. 

Professional Standards: I have been licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia since 2014 as a Professional Counselor. I am also a member of the AACC and therefore follow their code of ethics as well as the established code of ethics provided by the Virginia Board of Counseling. 

Education and Experience: I earned a Masters of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. Throughout the years I have taken part in various trainings in Crisis Stress Incident Management (CISM), Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), Suicide Prevention and Postvention, Polyvagal Theory, and Eye Movement Intergration (EMI). I teach psychological first aid to first responders/military and currently sit on the development board of the Peer to Peer program for EMS. 

Therapeutic Orientation: Generally speaking, I’m eclectic in my approach, meaning that I take skills from different therapeutic approaches and use them when I deem them appropriate. I utilize EMI for trauma therapy, I also utilized parts of CBT and DBT, and enjoy using tenets from solution-focused therapy when we set goals. I can tell you more about each of these approaches. I will use manualized treatments and bibliotherapy, which means that I will at some point assign you books to read or listen to and workbooks or journals to work through as part of our approach.