About Deborah

Besides Deborah’s education and experience in healthcare, she brings considerable knowledge and experience to her counseling practice from other areas:

• While working as the school nurse in a school for students with autism, Deborah acquired an understanding of the stressors and issues confronting the families of children with special needs. She now works with those parents and caregivers in the counseling setting to help them develop necessary coping strategies for themselves and to strengthen the family unit.

• Having been a "military wife" to a husband in the Navy Reserve for twenty-nine years, Deborah has the utmost respect and admiration for our men and women in uniform. She is also well acquainted with "life in the service.”   She has lived through deployments, reintegration of the service member into the family, and other issues surrounding military service. She considers it a great privilege to work with active duty, inactive, and retired service members to help them resolve issues and reach their potential with the aid of counseling.

At Next Chapter Counseling  Deborah combines her life experience with her education and training to provide a multi-faceted counseling experience for her clients. She has a sincere love for people and a belief in their innate strength and power to change, to heal, and to reinvent themselves at any age. She believes that people truly are capable of writing the next chapter of their lives in a new fulfilling way, whatever their life story may have been.  Contact her to begin your journey....

Deborah S. Wood, LPC, RN, NCC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Deborah holds two professional licenses in the field of health: She is licensed as a Professional Counselor  (VA License # 0701007602)  and is Board Certified as a Mental Health Counselor through NBCC (Cert. # 25345).  She received her Master of Education degree in Counseling from the College of William & Mary and interned in community mental health and substance abuse with the Hanover County Community Services Board. After graduation she completed her Residency in individual and couples counseling with Grapevine Counseling and Therapy.

Deborah is also licensed as a Registered Nurse with multi-state right to practice (VA license #0001128330). As a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University (BSN) Deborah has many years of experience in the healthcare field -  primarily hospital settings in obstetrics and medical/surgical nursing, and has served as an adjunct to the Fortis College faculty. She understands and is well qualified to counsel clients who are dealing with a variety of health concerns, either themselves or in their families, across the spectrum from infertility to end of life issues. She is also familiar with the many psychotropic drugs that are sometimes used in combination with counseling.

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Next Chapter Counseling

8101 Vanguard Drive

Suite 250

Mechanicsville, VA 23111

Phone 804.683.6855