Resident in Counseling*
Susette Ritenour has a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Counseling from Marymount University. Prior to her arrival at the Center for Pastoral Counseling of Virginia, she provided counseling services to women and their children in the area of recovery from addiction, as a student intern for Fairfax County Alcohol and Drug Services. As part of her educational program, Susette worked with clients at the Virginia Hospital Center focusing on grief, loss, and end-of-life issues.
Susette uses a caring, personalized approach and assists individual clients on a journey of self-discovery. Her pastoral counseling work emphasizes the importance of building healthy relationships – with the world, with the community, with family, and with God – through encouragement, understanding, and accountability.
She believes that real life change happens when we are free to ask the tough questions, confess our deepest emotions, and receive sincere caring.
Susette works at our Fairfax and Manassas locations, and can be reached on voicemail extension 214.
*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.