In-person, walk-in, and virtual therapy that makes room for the whole context of your life.
Therapy in Newport News, Virginia
Phoenix Rising Centers is currently accepting new clients in Newport News and across Virginia.
Our Newport News location offers a place to access mental health care in person, including walk-in support, while our Virginia-licensed clinicians also provide virtual therapy throughout the state.
We work with people navigating trauma, identity, relationships, neurodivergence, disability, grief, burnout, anxiety, life transitions, and the effects of living within systems that do not always make room for who we are.
Therapy in Newport News That Looks Beyond Symptoms Alone
We provide care centered on queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, Black, Brown, and other historically underserved communities, while welcoming people from many backgrounds and experiences.
Want to understand more about how Phoenix approaches healing?
Our work looks beyond individual symptoms to the relationships, histories, communities, power structures, and conditions shaping people’s lives.
Walk-In & In-Person Therapy in Newport News
Sometimes the hardest part of therapy is figuring out how to begin.
Phoenix Rising Centers offers walk-in and in-person mental health care at our Newport News location, giving people in the Hampton Roads area another way to access support.
Walk-in care may be helpful if you:
need somewhere to start
want support without navigating a long search first
are unsure what type of therapy might fit
are having a particularly difficult period
want to explore whether ongoing therapy feels right for you
have struggled to find care that feels affirming or culturally responsive
Phoenix Rising Centers
700 Tech Center Park Way, Suite 200, Newport News,
VA 23606
What We Support
People come to Phoenix carrying many different things. You do not need to know the right diagnosis, therapy modality, or category before reaching out.
What matters is what you are living through, how it is affecting you, and what kind of support might help.
You Don’t Have to Know Which Category Fits
Life rarely fits neatly into one specialty.
You might be navigating trauma and disability. Gender and family. Neurodivergence and burnout. Grief and a major relationship change.
Start with what you know. We can help with the rest.
Our Approach to Care
Therapy should make more room for your life, not ask you to shrink it.
We do not understand mental health in isolation from the world people live in. Your relationships, identities, history, body, community, material conditions, and the systems you move through all shape what you carry and what healing can realistically look like.
We start with context, not correction
A response that looks like anxiety, shutdown, hypervigilance, masking, anger, people-pleasing, or avoidance may have developed for a reason.
Rather than asking only, “How do we make this symptom go away?” we also ask what it has been protecting, what conditions shaped it, and whether you still need it in the same way today.
We do not treat difference as pathology
Queerness, transness, neurodivergence, disability, cultural difference, expansive relationships, and other ways of moving through the world are not problems for therapy to correct.
Our work is interested in what happens when people are given more room to understand themselves without constantly measuring themselves against someone else’s idea of what is normal.
The world around you belongs in the conversation
Racism, ableism, transphobia, migration, poverty, family expectations, healthcare systems, religion, work, housing, community, and access to resources can all shape mental health.
Therapy cannot remove every condition you are living within, but it can be a place where those realities are named rather than turned into personal shortcomings.
You remain the authority on your own life
A therapist may bring training, perspective, and tools. You bring something equally important: lived knowledge of yourself.
Your consent, boundaries, pace, goals, identities, and understanding of what feels possible matter throughout the work. Therapy is something we build with you, not something done to you.
Healing is bigger than individual coping
Coping skills can help. So can medication, insight, boundaries, rest, movement, creativity, and many other forms of support.
But people also need relationships, safety, resources, belonging, access, community, and environments where they are able to participate without continually fighting to be understood.
Therapists Serving Newport News & Virginia
CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS
Our Newport News team provides in-person and virtual therapy for clients across Virginia. Meet the clinicians currently available through this location.
Katrina Williams (She/Her)
Specializes in: Relational Therapy, LGBTQIA2S+ Care, Couples & Families, Religious Trauma & Maternal Mental Health
Newport News / Virginia
Aaron C. Slusher (He/Him)
Specializes in: Trans-Centered Therapy, Neurodivergent Adults, LGBTQIA2S+ Communities, Identity Exploration & Life Transitions
Newport News / Virginia
Not sure who feels like the right fit?
You don’t need to choose a therapist on your own. Tell us what you’re looking for and our team can help you explore current availability, insurance options, and the kind of support that may fit you best.
Online Therapy Across Virginia
You do not need to live in Newport News to work with Phoenix.
Our Virginia-licensed therapists provide virtual therapy throughout Virginia, making it possible to access care from home or another private space that works for you.
Virtual care can be especially useful if the therapist who best fits your identity, specialty needs, insurance, or schedule is not located nearby.
What Happens When You Reach Out?
1. Tell us what matters to you
You do not need to arrive with the “right” diagnosis or know exactly what kind of therapy you need.
Tell us what you’re carrying, what you’re hoping for, and anything that would help care feel more workable for you, including therapist identity, lived experience, specialty, insurance, accessibility needs, schedule, or how you prefer to meet.
2. We look for fit, not just an opening
We consider the fuller context of what you shared and look at which Virginia clinicians may be a meaningful fit for your needs, preferences, and circumstances.
We know that feeling understood can matter just as much as finding someone with an available appointment.
3. We help make the next step easier
We’ll follow up with options and help you understand what comes next, so you are not left emailing therapist after therapist or figuring everything out alone.
You remain in control of the process. You can ask questions, tell us something does not feel right, or take the time you need before deciding.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Phoenix currently has clinicians serving Virginia who are accepting new clients. Availability varies by provider and may include in-person, walk-in, and virtual options.
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Yes. Walk-in mental health care is available through our Newport News location. Check our current hours before visiting.
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Yes. Virginia-licensed Phoenix clinicians can provide telehealth to clients located throughout the state.
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Yes. Phoenix provides care centered on queer, trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and other LGBTQIA2S+ communities. You are welcome to tell us if therapist identity or lived experience is important when we help match you.
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Yes. Our clinicians work with autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, and other neurodivergent people and may support concerns including burnout, masking, sensory experiences, identity, executive functioning, work, school, and relationships.
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Yes. Phoenix clinicians work with trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, sexual and interpersonal violence, identity-based trauma, and other experiences that may continue to shape the present.
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Insurance participation varies by clinician. Share your plan when you contact us and our team can help determine which currently available therapists may be options for you.
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No. Our matching process exists specifically to help you narrow down your options.
You Don't Have to Figure Out the Search Alone
Finding therapy can require a surprising amount of work, especially when you are already carrying a lot.
Tell us what you are looking for and we will help you explore care that fits your needs, identity, preferences, and circumstances.
Walk-in and in-person therapy in Newport News. Virtual care throughout Virginia.

