Kiana Flippin-Crews, LPC

Kiana Flippin-Crews is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia who supports individuals facing depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, and major life transitions. She focuses on empowering clients to navigate communication barriers, develop self-love, and reduce feelings of isolation while working toward clearer goals in career and personal identity.

Her practice is attentive to the particular needs of LGBTQ+ people, women, and people of color, offering an affirming and culturally responsive approach that acknowledges intersecting stressors and lived experience. Whether clients are exploring sexuality, addressing attachment and abandonment concerns, or coping with separation and divorce, she aims to provide steady, compassionate guidance.

Drawing on evidence-based therapeutic techniques, Kiana helps people build resilience, strengthen self-awareness, and put practical strategies into action for meaningful change. Her work is collaborative and strengths-focused, centering each person’s goals and preferences as she supports their process of growth and healing.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Support

Kiana uses several evidence-based approaches tailored to each person’s needs. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and to improve daily functioning. Attachment-focused work explores patterns formed in relationships and helps repair or reshape connection and trust, which is useful for people struggling with abandonment, intimacy, or communication problems. Strengths-based and culturally responsive interventions build on a client’s existing resources and identity, helping to boost self-love, life purpose, and resilience in the face of stressors.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Kiana treats that choice as collaborative. She and the client assess goals, preferences, and responses to intervention and adjust methods together to find the best fit over time.

Online therapy with Kiana is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing for flexible scheduling and access from different locations. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments, and they support ongoing progress with licensed professionals and therapists.