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Get to Know Me

For more than 25 years, I have dedicated my education, training, and professional life toward making a difference in the realm of health. This commitment began with urban planning and organizing for healthy communities and later evolved toward international public health, health coaching, and finally mental health.

Lavina Velasco, LCPC
Professional Background

I trained at the Johns Hopkins University where I received my M.S. in Clinical Community Counseling in 2005. I have worked with adults over the lifespan, couples, and families on a wide range of client concerns including addictions, anxiety, crisis, depression, OCD, trauma; communication and family patterns, workplace and career issues, health and lifestyle goals, parenting and caregiver challenges, aging, grief and loss.

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  • Johns Hopkins University, M.S. Counseling

  • Certified Nature Informed Therapist 

  • Certified Health Coach

  • Domestic Violence Advocate Training (40 hrs)

  • Community Mediation Training (40 hrs)

Special Interests

Anxiety & OCD

Get to to the root of it.

Learn to shift out of anxious states more quickly & easily.

Spot pitfalls, prevent spirals.

Relationships

Establish healthy boundaries.

Practice courageous communication.

Grief & Loss

Process and recover from losses of all kinds - people, places, jobs, and paths not taken.

Major Life Changes

Create new possibilies.

Adjust to planned and unplanned changes with support and healthy coping.

Recent Trainings

Lavina Velasco Counseling Office

2023

  • Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) for OCD and Related Disorders

  • Grief and Loss Across Perinatal and Caregiving Populations 

  • An Integrated Neuropsychiatric Approach to Functional Neurological Disorder 

  • New Laws and Regulations that Impact Mental Health Practices in Maryland 

 

​2022

  • When Resiliency Runs Out

  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Bipolar Depression Management Update

  • Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness To Mental Health

  • Clinical Decision Making, Assessments and Treatment Goals

  • Preventing Alzheimer's: Pipedream or Possibility? 

  • Brainspotting: An Introduction

  • Implicit Bias in Behavioral Health

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​2021

  • Advocating for Change

  • Race, Sexual Identity, and the Therapeutic Relationship

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

  • Creative Strategies to Enhance Affect Regulation in Traumatized Clients

  • Loneliness versus Wisdom in the Era of Pandemics 

  • 21st Century Cures Act Implications for Behavioral Health Professionals 

  • Nature Informed Therapy Training Program

  • Issues around Mental Health among Adults with Autism"

  • Resilient Parents, Resilient Children: How to Support Families During Stressful Times

  • What Most Clinicians Need to Know about Borderline Personality Disorder in 2021

  • Working With the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

  • Improving Pain Management In Adults With Substance Use Disorders

  • The Assessment and Management of Irritability in Children with Disruptive Behavioral Disorders

 

​2020

  • Clinical Issues in Marital Therapy

  • Neuromodulation in Psychiatry

  • Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  • Clinical Issues in Telehealth

  • Talking About Racism with Friends and Family

  • Pandemic Parenting

  • Trapped: The Current State of COVID

  • Suicide Prevention Summit

  • In the mood: learning to self regulate

  • Why Self Care is a Clinical Issue

 

​2019

  • It’s Not All in Your Head: New Findings about Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder from the Stanley Research Program

  • Spirituality in the Clinical Practice

  • Updates in Addiction

  • Integrating Psychiatric Genomics into Clinical Care: Ethical and Legal Challenges for Clinicians

  • The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius

  • The Micro and Macro of Suicide Prevention: From Commitment to Action

  • Precision Health Initiatives for Depression and Bipolar Illnesses: The Time Has Come

  • Treating Trauma Master Series

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2018

  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention

  • Being a Mental HEALTH Professional: The Role of Wellness in Psychiatry

  • Lost in Translation: Findings for the Current Evidence Base for Management of Depression

  • Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders: Advances in Treatment and Research

  • ReWire the Brain: Neuro-Counseling for the Clinician

  • Level 1 Gottman Certification

  • Gender Differences in Addiction: Implications for Women's Addiction Treatment

  • Narcissism

 

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