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Life Cycles Counseling with Adina Silvestri

I am a licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia who works with children and families. I specialize in treating women with substance abuse issues.

I specialize in treating women with substance abuse issues and eating disorders. I help children who have experienced trauma lead full and healthy lives. I am Adina Silvestri EdD, LPC and I am a licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, working with children and families. My clinical work also includes providing supervision to counselors-in-training. As an innovative counselor educator, I enjoy teaching aspiring counselors the skills needed to become empathetic, creative counselors. In addition to my clinical work and teaching, I take an active role in the community. I was the 2015 President for the Jaycees, and I work with the Drive for the Blind, raising money and coordinating volunteer projects. I also write a column called "The Counselor’s Corner" for them. Additionally I mentor students at South University. My hobbies include sailing and running.

02/18/2026

Wicked isn’t just a story of rivalry –
It's about the parts inside us that pull in opposite directions.

In Wicked, Glinda the Good and Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West mirror the inner polarities many of us deal with throughout our lives:

🩷 Perfectionism vs Self-sabotage

💚 Assertiveness vs Avoidance

🩷 Caregiving vs Self-care

💚 People-pleasing vs Holding personal boundaries

Elphaba is labeled ‘bad’ not only because she’s green, but because she’s angry and defiant, while also unwilling to give up her standards even when surrender would be easier.

Glinda is ‘good’ because she’s nurturing, compassionate, but would rather submit to the easier road to feed her ambition than do what’s right.

IFS would describe these characters as polarities – opposing parts within you, each trying to keep you safe in their own way.

One part wants harmony, the other wants truth.

One hides behind a smile, the other hides behind anger.

Neither part is wholly bad nor wholly good.

The Good Witch and Bad Witch archetypes in Wicked remind us that both our nurturing and assertive parts are essential for a balanced life.

Glinda’s compassion and Elphaba’s boldness may conflict, but together, they create a whole, authentic self. 🩷💚

This week’s newsletter pulls back the curtain even further on Wicked and inner polarities.

It will even include a simple exercise to help your inner parts work in tandem and be the greatest team there’s ever been. 🌟🧹

Head to the link in the comments to subscribe. 📩

02/17/2026

You’ve been living with anxiety for years, maybe DECADES.
You feel like you’ve already tried everything and nothing works.

You’ve tried breathing apps, meditation apps, positive affirmation…

You’ve done therapy and talked about your childhood, your relationships, your trauma…

You have mountains of self-help books and playlists of podcast episodes…

Even after all of that, you’re still white-knuckling your way through panic attack after panic attack.

Why?

Because anxiety doesn’t just live in your mind. It lives in your brain and nervous system.

As an anxiety therapist, I’ve found the quickest relief is BRAINSPOTTING.

Brainspotting goes straight to where your anxiety is stored and releases it.

Here's what happens:

We find the exact eye position (your "Brainspot") where you feel your anxiety most directly.

Then, instead of talking about it, you focus on it while your brain does what it's been trying to do all along – heal itself from the inside out.

Many clients describe it as doing 6 months of therapy in a single session. 🙌🏻

Ready to stop letting your anxiety define your life?

Through Brainspotting, you can finally create the YOU that you want to be.

Drop any questions you have about brainspotting in the comments below. ⬇️

02/13/2026

Addiction recovery is not one-size-fits-all.
When traditional methods haven’t worked, hypnotherapy offers a new path to recovery. ❤️‍🩹

Hypnotherapy has been helping people stop smoking, drinking, and using drugs for years.

It gets to the root of your addiction by tapping into your subconscious mind.

This is where habits are formed and where our triggers live.

By leaning into the brain’s natural ability to form new neural pathways, hypnotherapy rewrites the stories we tell ourselves and replaces them with newer, more positive ones. ✨

Rather than trying to force a change, it helps us shift away from addictive urges and stop our addictive urges.

👉🏻 Do you think hypnotherapy could be the next step in your recovery journey?

Head to the link in my profile to book a free consultation to learn more.

02/10/2026

There are no rules when it comes to grief.
Some days you’re laughing.
On others, there’s no holding back the torrent of sobs.

Grief is layered.

It can hold sadness, anger, confusion, and even relief.

It’s a deeply personal experience that changes from person to person.

From day to day.

From year to year.

But even in the hardest moments, there’s a quiet promise –

The chance to discover something new and unexpected.

When you sit with your grief and FEEL it –

Allow your mind and heart to process it fully –

You’ll find that you have (and always will have) the resilience you need to move through every high and every low.

Grief is human and it’s HARD.

But finding a healthy way to process the emotions it carries is essential for healing. 🦋

In this week’s newsletter, I share a valuable resource that can help you navigate your grief through guided journaling prompts themed to match the always-changing seasons.

❤️‍🩹 If you’re ready to embark on this healing journey and find meaning through your loss, head to the link in the comments to subscribe.

02/09/2026

Some of us are winter people.
Not the aesthetic kind.
The real kind.

The kind who know the smell of ravioli before kickoff means you’re home.
Italian roots.
Loud kitchens.
Extra chairs pulled in.
Buffalo. –20 degrees.
Cold outside.
Connection everywhere.

One day with family.
One quick visit with a friend—
worked all day and still showed up.
Friends since 7th grade.

A Super Bowl party where it almost didn’t matter who was playing.

Everyday Bills Mafia—
because some identities don’t expire.

Winter people are shaped by gathering.
By showing up when it’s inconvenient.
By staying close when the world keeps pulling us apart.

We need that kind of connection more than ever.

Cold hands.
Full heart. ❄️❤️
Tag your winter person.

02/07/2026

High-functioning men are great at holding it together.
Until the moment they crack and succumb to exhaustion and overwhelm.

After years of running a men’s support group, I’ve witnessed this pattern repeat over and over again.

Here's what men actually need:

👉🏼 A safe space to explore vulnerability and build emotional resilience without judgment

👉🏼 The freedom to ask for support when the pressure becomes too much

👉🏼 Permission to take care of themselves before giving everything to others

But most men don't realize they're burning out until it's too late.

This isn’t a failure of character.

It’s a survival strategy that’s worked all their lives.

The strongest men know when it’s time to ask for help and seek out support BEFORE they fall apart.

Did one of these lessons resonate with you?

Leave the number in the comments below. ⬇️

02/06/2026

02/04/2026

Traditional recovery asks you to lead with your struggle:
“Hi, I’m X, and I’m an alcoholic/smoker/gambler/etc.”
For some, that works. For others, it keeps the wound open.

I once had a client, Dwayne, who had always been a smoker.

He started smoking in high school and later was up to a pack a day.

He'd tried quitting dozens of times, but none of his efforts stuck.
Everyone around him saw him as a smoker. It had become a huge part of his identity—a label that carried shame.
Smoking helped him cope with that shame.
But when Dwayne took a job in a new town, he changed his narrative.
When his coworkers offered him a cigarette on break, his response was simple:

👉🏻 “No, thanks. I don’t smoke.”

Not “I’m trying to quit.”

Just “I don’t smoke.”

That statement began Dwayne’s new identity in his new environment.

And in just over a week, he fully became a nonsmoker and stopped craving ni****ne entirely.

His old label finally lost its grip.

Hypnotherapy uses this same principle.

It helps you change the language, the identity, and the story your subconscious believes.

Instead, it gives you a new narrative to aspire towards and focuses its energy on that.

And eventually, your behaviors and personality will shift to match.

Curious to know more about hypnotherapy? 🤔

My email newsletter shares real client stories like Dwayne’s as well as educational tips, tricks, and techniques from alternative therapy approaches that are proven to help you heal.

This week, I’ll be sharing another inspiring client story and how hypnotherapy helped them break free from addiction.

📩 Click the link in the comments to subscribe.

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01/29/2026

I hear it often among clients:
“I just want to hit my ideal weight.”
“I can’t stand looking in the mirror.”

When I hear this, I know we’re not really talking about food.

We’re talking about self-worth.

For many people, binge eating is a battle between parts of the self – the parts that feel unworthy or disconnected.

🍽️ The Inner Critic tells us we’re flawed.

🍽️ The Perfectionist tells us we’re worth nothing if we don’t look good.

🍽️ The Protector tells us we need food to cope with emotions.

🍽️ The Exile gets hidden to shield us from needing to face the pain.

IFS (Internal Family Systems) doesn’t try to silence these parts.

It helps you understand them.

Because the parts themselves aren’t the problem.

They’re simply responding to pain, shame, and old beliefs in the only way they know how.

When we listen to them with curiosity and compassion, healing begins.

Not by fixing your body, but by reconnecting you to your inherent worth.

Because self-worth was never meant to be negotiated through food.

What part speaks to you the loudest?

Which one do you recognize most?

Let me know in the comments below. 👇🏻

01/28/2026

Struggling with binge eating?
Try this visualization ⬇️

Imagine your relationship with food and your body as a garden.

Over the years, it’s grown weeds.

These weeds show up as criticism, shame, and impossible expectations.

But the garden is still there, and it’s just as beautiful as ever.

Through Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, the goal isn't to rip everything out and start from scratch.

Instead, it helps you tend to the weeds with compassion, replant what matters, and reconnect with the beauty that already exists.

So, the next time you hear that harsh inner voice in your head?

The one calling you “lazy,” “unattractive,” or “out of control”?

That’s your inner critic, and believe it or not, it *thinks* it’s helping.

It planted those weeds of shame because it genuinely thought criticism would keep you safe.

When you slow down and really listen, you may find your inner critic has been trying to protect you in the only way it knows how.

IFS helps you understand that intention, soften the shame, and let your Core Self take the lead instead.

Healing from binge eating disorder and body shame isn’t about willpower.

It’s about building a new relationship with yourself – one based on curiosity, compassion, and connection.

You don’t have to bulldoze yourself to heal.

IFS can help you tend to what’s already there.

Ready to explore how IFS can help you rebuild self-worth, heal binge eating disorder, and improve body image fast?

Book a free consultation for a Binge Eating Disorder Therapy Intensive here:
https://calendly.com/adina-2/15min

01/27/2026

For many men, shame sounds like this ⬇️
“I SHOULD be able to handle this alone.”
Then, the feeling of failure when you can’t.

Most men are taught early on that problems are meant to be solved just by pushing through.

And if something feels too hard, the solution is simply to try harder.

But after years of working with men in therapy, one truth comes up again and again:

You can’t figure everything out alone.

And you were never meant to.

Shame thrives when struggles stay private and unspoken.

Over time, it seeps into different aspects of your life, leaving you numb or isolated.

Therapy intensives offer a different path.

The intensive format allows you to dive deep into the root causes of your shame and self-judgment and create space for profound breakthroughs.

All while bypassing the slower pace of weekly sessions.

It’s time to stop trying to do it all alone.

In this week’s newsletter, I’ll be going over men’s struggle with shame and why they feel like their work is “never enough.”

Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it.

https://adina-silvestri.kit.com/

01/22/2026

It’s not too late to join.

In Writing Bravely, we explore our inner worlds through prompts like this one:

Maps are usually meant to orient us in space. But today, we’re making a different kind of map—one guided by feeling rather than accuracy. A map that follows memory, association, and attachment. What matters here isn’t scale or distance, but resonance.

This six-week guided writing space begins soon.

🌿 Join us. Sneak in and grab your spot.

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8100 Three Chopt Road, Ste 131
Tuckahoe, VA
23229

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Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm
Saturday	8am - 6pm

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