Venise Darisme is a licensed counselor based in Virginia with 15 years of professional experience in the human services and mental health fields. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marymount University, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Biology from Mount St. Mary’s University. Marymount University was ranked as the #1 counseling program in Virginia on universities.com for 2021.

She is a National Certified Counselor and is credentialed to practice as a professional counselor in both Virginia and Utah. Venise is also trained as a clinical trauma professional and as a mental health integrative medicine provider, with focused training in nutrition for mental health. In addition, she is an EDIT Certified I Eating Disorder Treatment Clinician.

Venise works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, career difficulties, depression, addictions, family conflict, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, parenting challenges, anger management, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She brings experience in individual counseling, eating disorder treatment, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy, parent training, education and career counseling, play therapy, pastoral counseling for spiritual or religious struggles, grief work, multicultural issues, and substance use treatment.

Her therapeutic stance is warm and person-centered, drawing on behavioral and cognitive-behavioral techniques as well as creative arts, play therapy, and existential approaches to meet each person where they are. She particularly enjoys working with children and families and aims to tailor interventions to the needs and strengths of each client.