Lighthouse Counseling

Lighthouse Counseling of Fredericksburg, PLC is an outpatient therapy practice that serves adolescents and adult in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area with a variety of concerns including: mental health (anxiety, depression, trauma, severe mental illness), substance abuse, and affectional orientation, gender identity and related issues.  

Kathryn Taylor
5 Star
Carmen is amazing and really cares about her clients reaching their "life worth living" goals. I spent over 15 yrs of (at the time 21yr old) my life in and out of therapy. She's the only one who truly helped me make any true progress. Wish I had found her sooner.
Monday 17th May 2021

Jessica Lanasa
1 Star
This office is a VASAP approved counseling center, so court ordered VASAP participants are required to attend counseling sessions here under certain criteria. I would assume that the guaranteed cash flow from mandated participation by VASAP clients gets the most attention judging by the previous reviews about responsiveness. A friend of mine was ordered to complete counseling here by VASAP, which she did...for 22 weeks. They told her that in order to do any group sessions, she would have to discontinue taking all of her other, doctor prescribed medication. The rationale was that it might affect other group counseling members (um what?). That is wholly irresponsible and if anyone has experienced that as well with this office, I strongly suggest you speak with an attorney about a lawsuit. In my opinion, any therapist who works with VASAP is not in the business to actually help people, but to capitalize on mandated medical care by the courts and the 100 percent client funded state agency, the Commission on VASAP.
Monday 19th April 2021

Mark Hovanec
1 Star
I have had therapists over the years with much success and am a positive person that has succeeded in my therapies. I would not be concerned if one thing had occurred, but multiple things occurred over time. My partner needed therapy. He emailed and got no reply. He made several phone calls and got no return call. Mind you our counselor suggested Lighthouse so we considered it reputable. My partner called again. He finally got a call back and did an intake that included all his personal information including billing. He was told that 'if' there was a therapist available they would call back (?) Not, we will get back to you regardless with an update (?) Well, he finally got a session scheduled. He waited by his phone for 30 minutes and got not NO call. There are very few reviews about this organization here. I hope my sharing this experience as a pretty balanced person is helpful. I would suggest that you reach out elsewhere - especially if you have PTSD or serious issues and you thought you would start in a safe way. Always take care of yourself. If you feel in danger - reach out to friends, family, your faith, a therapist - and be honest - you are worth your life. Call 911 if you need to. I've lost friends. Your friends and family and the world deserve you. Hugs to all.
Monday 29th June 2020

Raymond Allen
1 Star
I was referred to Lighthouse Counseling from a couple therapist I have been seeing. When calling I am prompted to select a number to be connected to the right person, and every time I do the phone goes silent and then drops. After multiple attempts I finally got connected and set up an appointment. Today was that Tele-Appointment. I waited a half hour for the therapist to call and she did not, after an hour passed I tried to call the number once more and guess what? Yup, after pressing the number to be connected the call would drop again. I tried 17 times and with each press on the button the call would drop. So to sum it up, my appointment was a no show and I couldn't even get connected with someone to find out why. The only reason why I am doing this is with hope that someone from that place will see it and call me. BTW there is no email address on their website, so I can't even send them an email.
Monday 29th June 2020

Lauren Siegel
5 Star
The groups and the therapists (even if at first believe they aren't worth your time) are absolutely amazing!!! Katie Fields is the best therapist i have ever had. Katie and Kylie facilitate the DBT groups and without the DBT skills i learned i would have never been able to stay sober (after years of constant relapse). I also was in Danielle's Thursday night S.A. group was also extremely helpful in my journey in sobriety. Every therapist has different approaches, but every single one of them will never give-up on you even when you want to give-up on yourself. Long story short i LOVE Lighthouse Counseling and would recommend it to anyone!!!
Wednesday 23rd May 2018