Quinatona Winston

Quinatona Winston is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She aims to create a trusting relationship where clients feel comfortable talking about what is most upsetting to them. Her manner is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.

She draws on approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Sessions often involve noticing unhelpful patterns, trying small changes, and building routines that support emotional balance. Mindfulness and narrative techniques are used to help people connect with their values and make sense of difficult experiences.

Quinatona describes her work as strength based and empowerment focused. She helps people increase self-awareness, break unhelpful cycles, and practice self-compassion. Common concerns she addresses include relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, addictions, trauma and abuse, career stress, and coping with life changes.

Her experience includes supporting people through mood disorders, bipolar challenges, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and women’s issues. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a Virginia-based LCSW.

To get started, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How her approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful goals rather than trying to eliminate every difficult feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses simple experiments and skill practice to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience, using empathy and reflective listening to help someone make their own choices and build confidence.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their goals and preferences. That choice can shift over time as priorities change and progress is made.

The original biography did not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people use mindfulness practices and homework exercises between sessions, which supports steady progress during life changes.