Active & Connected Family Therapy, Crozet, Clover Lawn.

Overview

The directions alone tell you something about how this place works. To reach Active & Connected's Crozet office, you park at the Clover Lawn shopping center across from Harris Teeter, find the building with the Domino's Pizza, walk around to the back, and go up the stairs. There is a sign on the door with the practice logo. It is not a place you stumble into. You have to mean to be there, which is often exactly the right frame of mind for the appointment waiting at the top of those stairs.

Active & Connected Family Therapy runs a network of counseling offices across Virginia and North Carolina, and the Clover Lawn suite is its Crozet foothold. The space itself is a private five-office suite, described by the practice as bright and fresh with a lot of natural light. There are walking paths outside, and the therapists here will do what they call walk-and-talks when a client would rather move than sit across a room. That option is not a gimmick; for some people, a conversation loosens up considerably once the body is doing something ordinary, and having the trails right there makes it easy to offer.

Who you might see

The roster at Clover Lawn is deep and varied, which matters more than it sounds. Matching a client to the right clinician is most of the work in therapy, and this location gives its Client Care Coordinators real range to work with.

The team includes licensed clinicians and residents in counseling carrying master's-level credentials, among them Chloe Watkins (MSW), Emma Mason (M.Ed.), Kalley Seitz (MS), Katie Evans (M.S., M.Ed., NCC), Kristin Link Ullrich (MEd), Alissa Marion (M.A.), and Tatiana Gurubatham. Their stated specialties span the territory most families actually contend with: anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, autism spectrum disorder, trauma, grief and loss, eating disorders and body image, life transitions, divorce, and relationship and family dynamics. Some clinicians list focus areas that get less airtime elsewhere, from parent coaching and behavior management to work with athletes, veterans, and LGBTQIA+ clients.

The age range they cover is unusually wide for a single suite. Depending on the clinician, the practice sees children as young as six, tweens, teens, young adults, adults, and adults 65 and up, along with couples and whole families. If you are a parent trying to find someone for a ten-year-old and also, separately, someone for yourself, this is one address that could plausibly handle both.

Getting started

The practice lays out three ways in, and they are worth knowing before you call so you can pick the one that fits your temperament. You can call (434) 202-4080 and talk through the fit with a Client Care Coordinator, which is the fastest route if you would rather have a person help you sort it out. You can fill out an interest form on the website if you would rather not be on the phone. Or, if you have already read the team bios and think you know who you want, you can request a session with a specific therapist directly.

That first conversation is where the matching happens. Because the clinicians here differ so much in specialty and in the ages they work with, describing what is going on plainly at the outset saves time. The coordinators are the ones who steer you toward the person most likely to help.

Every clinician at this location also offers teletherapy, so the Clover Lawn office is a base rather than a requirement. You can see the same therapist in person one week and over video the next, which is a practical convenience in a region where a snowy morning or a sick kid can otherwise cost you a session.

The particulars

The office is at 325 Four Leaf Lane, Suite #12, Charlottesville, VA 22903, in the Clover Lawn center. Reach the practice by phone at (434) 202-4080, by email at hello@activeconnected.com, or through the Crozet – Clover Lawn location page.

Administrative hours run 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. Clinician hours are broader, roughly 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, though the exact window depends on the individual therapist and their schedule. The practice accepts a solid slate of insurance, including Anthem/BlueCross BlueShield, Aetna, CareFirst, Cigna, Sentara, and the UVA UnitedHealthcare StudentResources (UHCSR) plan, which is worth flagging if you or someone in the family is a UVA student.

It is a modest suite up a back staircase in a strip of shops most Crozet residents pass every week without noticing. That ordinariness is part of the appeal. Therapy folded into the same errand run as groceries and a pizza is therapy that is easier to actually keep showing up for.

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