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New Story Behavioral Health, 6400 Arlington Boulevard , Suite 920, Falls Church, VA (2026)

02/09/2026

There’s something powerful about being known, not analyzed, not rushed, not fixed, but truly seen in community. 📖

Our Spring Confessional Community™ Intensive invites you into a small, guided group experience where stories are shared, emotions are named, and connection unfolds in real time.

Alongside Curt Thompson, MD, and New Story staff, participants explore the intersections of neuroscience, vulnerability, faith, and relational healing.

Applications are open until February 28th.

If your story feels ready to be held with care, we’d love to welcome you. 💙

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/intensives-training/ccintensive/

02/06/2026

Reminder that applications are still open for our upcoming Confessional Community® Intensive this spring! 📖

This three-day experience offers space to slow down, share your story in a small, guided group, and engage teaching from Curt Thompson, MD, on shame, vulnerability, and the healing power of connection. Alongside others, you’ll witness how stories unfold in community and have structured time for reflection, allowing insights to settle and take shape.

▫️ April 29–May 1, 2026
▫️ In person | Falls Church, VA
▫️ Apply by February 28, 2026

If you’re longing for deeper connection and a more integrated understanding of your story, we’d love to invite you into this experience.

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/intensives-training/ccintensive/

02/04/2026

As the calendar turns, it’s worth pausing.

What are you carrying into this month? What feels heavy, unresolved, or quietly asking for your attention? And what might be ready to be set down?

Reflection creates space for clarity, compassion, and choice.

You don’t have to have all the answers, just the willingness to listen to your own story. 📖

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/

02/02/2026

Formation doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in relationship.

The Confessional Community Training® Program is designed for caregivers who want to lead others with greater depth, presence, and wisdom. This yearlong training weaves together Christian spiritual formation and psychotherapy, drawing from interpersonal neurobiology and group process to explore how healing takes shape in community.

Participants learn not only through teaching but through experience and observation, developing foundational group therapy skills while being shaped as leaders who attend carefully to stories, bodies, and relationships.

Open to clinicians and qualified non-clinicians, this program offers in-person gatherings in Falls Church, VA, along with ongoing formation over time.

▫️ Opening Event: March 4–6, 2026
▫️ Closing Event: January 20–22, 2027

For those called to accompany others with courage and care, this training offers a meaningful path forward. 📖

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/intensives-training/confessional-community-training-program/

02/01/2026

Say hello to Anna Graham, LMSW, co-owner of New Story Behavioral Health and a steady, compassionate presence in our community. 📖

Anna brings over 20 years of experience walking alongside families and children, particularly in the world of adoption and attachment. Her work today with individuals, couples, and groups is deeply shaped by attachment theory, family systems, and nervous system awareness, honoring both pain and resilience as they unfold in relationship.

At the heart of Anna’s work is a belief we share at New Story: healing and hope grow through connection, and none of us are meant to navigate our stories alone. She helps shape the kind of space where courage is met with care and transformation is supported every step of the way.

▫️ In-person in Virginia
💙 Virtual availability varies

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/employee/anna-graham-lmsw/

01/30/2026

Mental health care shouldn’t feel like guesswork, or like you’re being reduced to a checklist.

At New Story, psychiatric evaluations are about understanding the whole picture: your symptoms, your story, your nervous system, and the context of your life.

These conversations help us uncover what’s really going on beneath the surface so we can build a care plan that’s thoughtful, personalized, and collaborative.

For some, that includes medication. For others, it’s simply clarity and language that makes sense of what you’ve been carrying. Either way, our goal is the same: informed care that supports long-term healing, not quick fixes.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to begin.

We’ll help you take the next step, together. 💙

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/specialty-therapy/psychiatric-evaluations-care/

01/27/2026

Meet Courtney Morrison, LCSW, co-owner of New Story Behavioral Health and a deeply thoughtful, relational clinician. 💙

Courtney’s work is grounded in Interpersonal Neurobiology, psychodynamic and attachment-based theories, and shaped by a profound respect for each person’s story. As both a therapist and leader at New Story, she helps create spaces where clients can reflect on the past, grieve what was lost, and imagine what healing and hope might still hold.

Courtney believes transformation unfolds when we slow down enough to listen, making room for truth, longing, and new ways of being in relationship with ourselves and others.

Learn more about Courtney!
https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/employee/courtney-morrison-lcsw/

01/24/2026

There’s something powerful that happens when stories are shared in the presence of attentive, compassionate others.

Our Confessional Community® Intensives invite you into a small-group experience where honesty, connection, and reflection are central. Guided by New Story staff and taught by Curt Thompson, MD, these intensives draw from neuroscience, spiritual formation, and lived experience to explore shame, vulnerability, and the healing power of being known.

Over the course of three days, participants engage in teaching, shared story, and structured reflection—creating space to notice what emerges in the body, the emotions, and the relationships in the room.

📖 April 29 – May 1, 2026
💙 In person | Falls Church, VA
📘 Apply by February 28, 2026

If you’re longing for deeper connection and a more integrated understanding of your story, we’d love to invite you into this experience.

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/intensives-training/ccintensive/

01/22/2026

Meet David Schmidgall, MA, MSc, whose work is shaped by nearly two decades of pastoral care, crisis response in conflict zones, and spiritual direction. 📖

David brings a uniquely integrative approach to therapy, weaving together spiritual formation, interpersonal neurobiology, and strengths-based care to help clients build resilience and move through life’s challenges with greater clarity and hope. His work invites creativity, partnership, and a rediscovery of what it means to live “fully alive.”

David works with adults, couples, first responders, humanitarian workers, and helping professionals, supporting those navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, spiritual abuse, addiction, and major life transitions.

In person: Virginia
Virtual: Check for availability

https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/employee/finnegan-p-steele-cgc/

01/20/2026

We’re grateful to highlight David Steele, LMFT, whose work centers on courage, curiosity, and compassionate exploration. 📖

David specializes in family-of-origin work, attachment, communication, and trauma, drawing from Attachment Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Internal Family Systems, and EMDR. He walks alongside clients as they gently uncover places of hurt and shame, making room for healing, restoration, and a more abundant way of living.

For David, therapy is a collaborative journey, one that honors the whole story and invites lasting transformation.

Learn more about David: https://www.newstorybehavioralhealth.com/employee/david-steele-lmft/

01/19/2026

Individual therapy offers space to slow down, reflect, and make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface.

Through thoughtful conversation and intentional care, therapy can help you gain clarity around your thoughts and emotions so change feels possible, not overwhelming. It’s also a place to rediscover confidence, reconnect with your values, and move toward a life that feels more aligned and meaningful.

Even if you’ve tried therapy before, the right space and relationship can make all the difference. Growth happens when you feel truly known, supported, and free to explore your story at your own pace.

Get started at newstorybehavioralhealth.com 💙

01/18/2026

Meet Finn, our four-legged teammate and Certified Therapy Dog. 💙

Finn works alongside David Steele, LMFT, offering calm presence, comfort, and grounding support to clients experiencing emotional distress in therapy. Certified through Off-Leash K9 Training of Northern Virginia and recognized as a Canine Good Citizen, Finn’s gentle demeanor helps create a sense of safety and connection in the therapy space.

Animal-assisted therapy is currently available exclusively to clients of David Steele, LMFT.

Sometimes healing includes a quiet companion who knows how to sit with you. Finn does that beautifully. 🐾

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