Resources

ABT Counseling is committed to your good mental health. You’ll find below recent articles posted by our staff on mental health topics such as marriage and family, anxiety, depression, and addiction.

Like this stream at Roaring Run Furnace, getting the right information about your healthcare situation offers life. Keep checking back here often for updated articles that may complement your counselor’s practical advice.

 

 

Meet Rachel Schallon

ABT's Rachel Schallon is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is passionate about working with teenage girls as they struggle with issues of self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. For more info about Rachel, or to schedule an appointment, click here.    

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Office-Based Opioid Treatment with Suboxone

ABT Counseling has invested significantly in the opioid crisis. The counseling practice now has a staff of seven who are working to meet the substance abuse needs of Southwest Virginia through an Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) program. The medical and therapist...

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Meet Angela Vaselaros

ABT has a team of counselors and medical staff who specialize in Office-Based Opioid Treatment. One of the resident counselors on that team is Angela Vaselaros. In this conversation, she talks about treating a patient with depression, which is not uncommon among...

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Marriage is Hard Work.

ABT Counseling's Bobby Jessup loves to do marriage counseling. He says that marriages and families are where his heart resonates most for his patients. "I have a strong pro marriage bias and I believe that no effort is to be spared to work on a marriage. Whatever...

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Meet Bobby Jessup

  ABT's Bobby Jessup is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He's been in practice here since the late 1990's. ABT Counseling is the only place where he's done therapy. He likes treating patients with anxiety because he...

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Work-Life Balance

How are you at balancing the many demands on your life? We all have them. Your boss asks you to work overtime. Your spouse is pleading with you about going on vacation. Your kids have another game you are expected to attend. Oh, and did we mention your parents, your...

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