About

New Beginnings Family Counseling Services, Inc.

Provides outpatient counseling services to individuals, couples and families, seeking supportive services to help affect positive change. This is intended to be a collaborative process designed to customize the work to best meet the needs of the client. All efforts are made to make this an inclusive, welcoming and healing space.

Frances Greenstein, LPC, LMFT

Is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and
a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who has provided therapeutic services for over 30 years in Charlottesville, Va. Her background and training are in Structural Family Therapy, and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and most recently, in Fierce Love/ Core Self Therapy (CSRT). This work has the therapist being an active supporter of your wiser, core self, working to heal traumas and wounded parts. All of these approaches bring the work into the room allowing one to experience change in a safe and supported environment.

Areas of Experience include:

– anxiety
– depression,
– marital issues
– supporting through life’s stages and transitions such as developing your own independence, new jobs or moves, relationships/marriage, new parents, struggling parents
– finding strength and clarity through difficult challenges of life such as death of loved ones, illnesses, and divorce.

She has worked in a variety of settings over the years including:

– outpatient therapeutic work with individuals, families and couples
–  behavioral supports and counseling with families with children with autism and a wide range of special needs and challenges
– hospital settings with cancer and diabetic patients and their families
– intensive in-home counseling program serving multi -problemed families with multi-generational issues with goals to strengthen parenting skills, achieve personal growth for all involved and stabilizing the family unit.
– social services with a strong emphasis in family stabilization and reunification.