Denise Tordella, M.A. LPC
Denise is a Licensed Professional Counselor with an undergraduate degree in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a graduate degree in community counseling from George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. She has taken post-graduate training in trauma treatment and completed a certificate program in trauma treatment from the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. Denise was the director of a residential substance abuse treatment program before becoming a mental health therapist for Arlington County Behavioral Healthcare Division. For the past 10 years, she has provided clients with individual and group treatment and psychoeducation about mental health and substance abuse disorders from a trauma specific perspective.
Her current area of interest is the integration of trauma treatment and substance abuse treatment and she has provided training and consultation to several universities and various non-profit and municipal mental health treatment service providers. Most recently, Denise was recognized by her colleagues in the Washingtonian Magazine (July 2009) as one of the Top Therapists specializing in substance abuse treatment in the metropolitan DC area. She also is an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and Northern Virginia Community College where she teaches substance abuse counseling. Denise maintains a private practice in Alexandria , Virginia where she lives with her husband David who is a computer scientist and is the proud mother of Brian and Marisa.