Mina Kirkova, MA, MSW, LCSW-C              

Counseling, Therapy, & Life Coaching for Adults

in Phoenix/Jacksonville, MD

3009 Jackson Ridge Ct. Phoenix, MD, 21131

mina@minacounseling.com

(443) 322-6552

Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Grief & Loss, Adult ADD, Self-Esteem, Confidence Building, Phobias, OCD, Assertiveness, Chronic Pain & Illness, Relationship Issues, Home-Schooled Children Support, New Parents Support, Training, & Education

LIFE COACHING SPECIALTIES

 THERAPY SPECIALTIES

ABOUT ME:

I am a Licensed Certified Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) in private practice. I am always enthusiastic to work with individuals who are facing challenges in life, eager to learn lessons, and move on to the next level of their life. I feel fulfilled when I see clients walk away lighter, freer, happier, and excited to live their own personal journey after healing from wounds, disorders, and struggles on their path. I am here to help you bloom into your best self by providing you with a safe place to reconnect with your inner self. I can help you nurture your inner world, heal your past, and learn how to develop a loving relationship with yourself and the important people in your life. By using a variety of treatment modalities, we will go into your past to understand your present and change your future. In a safe and supportive environment, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of my patient' individual needs.

Please take a look at my Google reviews HERE.

My counseling and therapy specialties are:
 

• Life Transitions, Relationship Issues, Chronic Pain and Illness
• Mindfulness, Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques
• Social and Performance Anxiety, OCD, Stress, Phobias
• Sadness, Depression, Grief and Loss
• Self-Esteem, Confidence Building, Assertiveness

• Adult ADD/ADHD (Focus, Organizational Skills, Time Management Issues), Career Counseling

• New Parents Support, Parent Training, and Education: Effective Disciplining Tools for Children and Adolescents
• Coaching for Parents of Children Struggling with ADD/ADHD, Exec. Functioning, Anxiety, Depression, ODD, anger

• Parent Support and Guidance for Home-Schooled Children

My life coaching specialties are:

• Physical and Mental Health Coaching: improve your sleep, exercise routine, and eating habits. Handle emotional eating and chronic dieting issues. Learn effective yoga, meditation, breathing, and relaxation practices to decrease stress and anxiety and enhance your overall physical health and emotional well-being.
• Career Coaching: career changes, professional development, setting and achieving your dreams and goals, managing professional stress and anxiety, time management, prioritizing and establishing daily routine and maintaining healthy habits. 
• Financial Wellness Coaching: getting out of debt, paying off credit cards and student loans, creating a conscious rich life, creating free time for yourself and what you love doing.
• Transformational Coaching: starting over in life, finding purpose, clarity, meaning, and your passion in life. Present moment awareness, stabilizing your mind and emotions, and building your core-self.

I draw on a broad palette of treatment modalities and techniques:
 

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
• Mindfulness, Meditation, Breathing and Relaxation Techniques
• Guided Wellness Imagery and Visualizations
• Family Systems Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Person-Centered Therapy
• Attachment Based Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Multicultural and Culturally Sensitive Therapy
• Strength-Based Therapy

I look forward to meeting you, listening to your story, and starting our

journey together!

*Please, note that I do not specialize in couples counseling, separation, divorce, mediation, or co-parenting counseling for children, adolescents, or adults/families. I do not participate in custody evaluations, as I do not have the training required to do so. I do not provide emotional support animal evaluations and I do not prescribe psychotropic medications.

Currently, I am offering both in-person and virtual individual therapy and life coaching sessions to college students, adults, and seniors.

*For more info. regarding therapy and counseling services I offer to children, adolescents, and their families, please go to: www.minacounseling.com

CURRENT PATIENTS:

ZOOM Permanent link for teletherapy appointments.

Click on the link below to start your therapy session:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7224212854

NEW PATIENTS:

If you are interested in starting counseling with me, please email me at mina@minacounseling.com to check my current availability. New patient openings frequently become available as soon as I discharge current patients. In your email, please be sure to include all of the information requested below. Please note that my email is confidential. Please note that my email is confidential.

• Your name, age, and telephone number:
• An outline/summary of the main problems you need help with:
• Are you currently sad, lonely, depressed, or suicidal? Have you struggled with such issues in the past?
• Your current family/marital situation: (married, separated, divorced, in the process of divorce or separation) *Please, note that I do not specialize in separation or divorce related issues.
• Your current state of residence:
• Your availability for morning weekday sessions: *I usually work on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays: 7am, 8am, 9am appt. time slots 

In case I am fully booked at the time you contact me, I could add you to my "New Patients Waiting List" and contact you as soon as a new opening becomes available. If you need immediate help, I will provide you with counseling resources and refer you to a colleague who specializes in the issues you need help with.