Lena Aburdene, MS* (Resident in Counseling) has a Master of Science degree in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola College in Maryland. During her time at Loyola, she worked as a therapist at St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore with patients and their family members dealing with long term or terminal illness. She also worked as a therapist at Catholic Charities with low income and homeless clients. Lena has also worked as a Patient Service Coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Oncology and as a Session Assistant at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Lena uses a caring, empathic and non-judgmental approach and believes that compassion and acceptance are two of the most important pieces of the therapeutic relationship. She focuses on grief counseling, difficult life transitions, general depression and anxiety, trauma, and family and couples counseling.
In addition to her Masters in Pastoral Counseling, Lena received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Lehigh University and has a Master of Arts in Communications from Fordham University. She enjoys writing and is active in fundraising for an array of causes within her community.
Lena can be reached at voicemail extension 217 and works in the
Washington DC and Arlington centers.
*Center for Pastoral Counseling’s residents form a select group. Residents are counselors, who spend 1-2 years with CPC receiving additional specialized training in pastoral counseling, under the supervision of CPC’s most experienced therapists. Some residents come to CPC after completing their graduate education in counseling, and others come to us, having already worked for many years in the field, and wishing to refine their expertise in integrating issues of spirituality and psychology.
Residents work on a sliding fee scale and are available to see clients who require reduced-fee counseling. This helps provide much-needed services for those who are unable to pay full fees for counseling.