Agape Services: Specialties

Ian Masson’s Specialties

Counseling specialties

Anxiety/ Stress

Career Counseling

Child*

Coping Skills

Depression

Emotional Disturbance

Marital and Family Issues

Grief

Infidelity

Life Transitions

Men's Issues

Oppositional Defiance (ODD)

Parenting

Relationship Issues

Self Esteem

Trauma and PTSD

Transformative Therapy Integrated with the Catholic Faith

Types of Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

Faith-informed counseling (Catholic/Christian)

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

Relationship Enhancement Therapy (RE) for couples and families

Filial Family Therapy (FFT)

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Person-Centered

Play Therapy (Child Centered Play Therapy)*

Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisor

Trauma Focused

*Child clients can only be seen in-person (locally in Culpeper, VA).

Ian Masson’s Specialties and options for therapy

One of the primary predictors of success in therapy is the client-clinician relationship, or therapeutic alliance. Therefore, many of the interventions Ian uses seek to build stronger relationships both internally and in family/social relationships.

Play Therapy

Ian is certified in Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT). CCPT is an in person service and are now available at a physical office in Culpeper, VA.

For more information about CCPT, click here.

Filial family therapy

Ian is certified in Filial Family Therapy (FFT).

For more information about FFT, click here.

Eye movement desensitization and REPROCESSING (EMDR)

Ian is trained through Green Cross in Level 2 EMDR.

For more information about this training through Green Cross, click here.

Couples and family Counseling: Relationship Enhancement Therapy®

Ian has a certificate and is trained in using Relationship Enhancement Therapy® (RE). He has been using RE with couples for over 10 years.

For more information about RE, click here.