Mental health therapy that is grounded in a sensible, humble, and down-to-earth approach. You could even call it pragmatic.
At The Pragmatic Therapist, we offer grounded, down-to-earth mental health therapy for people who are ready to feel whole again. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, or parts of yourself that feel disconnected or overwhelmed, you're in good hands. We specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and IFS (Internal Family Systems), two powerful, evidence-based approaches to help you heal from the inside out.
Take the first step.
Book a free 15-minute consult or request an appointment today. Specialized, compassionate therapy for real change. In-person and virtual options available.
EMDR and IFS can help you overcome trauma, unburden from emotional pain, tame anxiety, and boot depression. Are you ready to heal?
Curious What Therapy with Us Looks Like?
Watch Demonstrations of EMDR and IFS in Action.
Therapy can feel mysterious or even intimidating, especially if you’ve never tried EMDR or IFS before. That’s why we’ve created a few short demonstration videos to help you see what these approaches actually look like in a safe, supportive environment. Each video features a guided, educational example of what a session might feel like. No scripts, no acting, just real connection and skilled facilitation. Demonstrations do not feature actual clients and are therapists who work at The Pragmatic Therapist.
EMDR for anxiety and activation.
Watch how EMDR helps regulate the nervous system and access stuck emotional material.
EMDR with relational grounding
Explore how dual attention and therapist attunement work in real time.
Meeting inner parts with compassion
Learn how IFS creates internal clarity and helps unblend from reactive states.
Working with protective parts
Watch how internal protectors are acknowledged and supported, not pushed aside.
Our specialties
We are licensed mental health therapists, but consider ourselves healers.
Our goal is to address the root cause that brought you to therapy.
Individual Therapy
Heal from anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional pain. Perfect for adults, adolescents, and teenagers.
EMDR
Originally designed to help people heal from distressing or disturbing life experiences, EMDR has evolved as a great therapy to tackle anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and just about any other stressor you can think of. Effective, safe, and proven.
IFS
IFS, or Internal Family Systems explores our internal parts and considers our inner workings a large family. IFS helps our parts heal from their past, emotional injuries. By healing parts, you can address the root causes of many mental health issues and interact with your inner and outer world in new, healthy ways. Unpack and heal from your childhood.
Play Therapy
Children learn and heal in the form of play. We offer healing to children who often signal they need help through behavior. Whether that is anxious behavior, defiant behavior, or avoidant behavior, your child's behavior tells a story about their mental health. Play therapy can help your child process issues and help you connect with your child on a new level.
Couples Counseling
Transform your relationship with our Gottman Method Couples Counseling. Commit today for lasting love and improved communication.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine can help you open your heart and mind to new ways of thinking about yourself and build self-compassion. By helping your brain enter a state of neuroplasticity, ketamine helps rewire neural pathways and surmount psychological blocks that may have previously seemed insurmountable.
Professional Reviews
Need a deeper reset?
Explore two powerful ways to go beyond weekly therapy with immersive, focused support for transformational healing.
3-Day Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Retreats
The Pragmatic Therapist is proud to introduce our sibling project, Roots & Wings Integrative Healing. At Roots & Wings, our Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAT) retreat invites you into a compassionate, supportive space to explore self-discovery, deepen inner awareness, and reconnect with your resilience. Blending leading-edge therapy with time-honored healing practices, this retreat fosters meaningful insight and connection both within yourself and in community.
EMDR Intensives
For clients seeking focused, accelerated healing, we offer EMDR Intensives. These two to four hour sessions create space for deeper therapeutic work and can support meaningful progress in a shorter time frame than traditional weekly sessions. For clients who are ready for focused, accelerated healing, we offer EMDR Intensives — extended-format sessions that allow for deeper processing without the stop-and-start of weekly therapy.
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FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
We am located in downtown Fairfax, VA at 3921 Blenheim Blvd Suite 73c Fairfax VA 22030
As of 7/2/2020 we are conducting both in-office sessions at my Fairfax office or virtually throughout Virginia.
We do not participate as an in-network provider. But, that does not mean you are not covered by health insurance. Many providers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield (Anthem and CareFirst), Aetna, United Health Care, or TriCare have out-of-network benefits. If you call the member’s services number on the back of your insurance card and inquire about your out-of-network benefits they will let you know what portion of the cost they will reimburse you for.
55 minute individual sessions: $200
Our rate is set that each therapist can earn a livable earning while also not overburdening themselves by taking an excessive amount of clients. This means your therapist is available, emotionally present, and not overbooked. We provided a personalized experience with your therapist who has time for training, self development, their own therapy, and ultimately, time and space for you.
We usually recommend people email the owner (Michael@ThePragmaticTherapist.com) and ask for a 20 minute phone consultation. You want to make sure we are a good fit for you. If you feel you are ready to hit the ground running and want to start right away, give me a call or email me and ask to become a client. Its that simple!
The word pragmatic means a sensible and realistic way of thinking and problem solving. We believe that reflects how we tend to think about things and frame mental health counseling. An open, warm, and friendly way to sort out mental health. Hence, The Pragmatic Therapist.
