Aligned Clinical & Educational Services, PLC.

Overview

In a Unit 103 office off Claremont Lane, in the Old Trail neighborhood where Crozet edges into new construction and mountain views, Aligned Clinical & Educational Services does the quiet, careful work of figuring out what a person actually needs. The practice goes by ACES, and it describes itself as family-focused: a place that provides psychiatry alongside diagnostic, consultative, and therapeutic services, leaning on collaborative, evidence-based methods rather than a single house style. It sees children, adolescents, and adults, and while the Crozet office is the anchor, ACES also keeps a location in 3 Chopt and serves clients across Charlottesville, Richmond, and the rest of Virginia.

What they do

The clinical side of ACES covers a lot of ground without spreading thin. Psychiatrists and psychotherapists here specialize in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, psychiatric services and medication management, psychological testing, and educational assessment. For both children and adults, the practice offers multi-disciplinary team assessments, psychotherapy, psychological assessment services, and tele-psychiatry for clients in the Richmond area.

That word multi-disciplinary is worth pausing on. A team assessment means more than one kind of professional looking at the same person from different angles, which is the sort of thing that catches what a single appointment might miss. It is the difference between a snapshot and a full picture, and it is a recurring theme in how ACES structures its work.

The practice also works beyond individual clients. ACES contracts with agencies and school divisions, offering consultation, training, and professional development, Independent Educational Evaluations, subcontracted professional services, Applied Behavior Analysis, supervision, and vocational support. If a school system needs an outside evaluation it can trust, or an agency needs a specialist it does not have on staff, this is a practice built to slot into that gap.

Deaf and hard-of-hearing services

This is where ACES is genuinely distinctive. The practice is recognized as the leading provider of assessment and counseling for Deaf clients in Central Virginia, and it is not a sideline. ACES offers individual, marital, and family therapy, psychological assessment, educational testing, multi-disciplinary team assessments, and consultation on school, parenting, or program development, all built around the needs of children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing, with particular attention to those facing literacy and learning challenges.

The details matter here in a way they do not everywhere. ACES professionals can work directly in American Sign Language, in spoken English, in sign language supported by conceptually accurate spoken English, and in Cued Speech and Cued English. Interpreting is available when needed, and the practice can provide both ASL interpreting and Certified Deaf Interpreting services to other providers and to families. That range means a Deaf client is not translated at from across a gap; they can be met in the language they actually think in. For a field where so much rides on precise communication, that is not a small thing.

Visiting the practice

ACES keeps regular weekday hours, open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 6 PM, and closed weekends. The office is at 300 Claremont Lane, Unit 103, Crozet, VA 22932, and the phone is (434) 466-1588. New clients, appointment requests, and a fuller description of services live on the practice website, crozetaces.com, which separates its offerings by audience so families, adults, and institutions can each find their own door in.

A clinical practice is not the kind of place most people go looking for casually, and ACES does not pretend otherwise. What it offers instead is a broad, coordinated set of services under one roof in Old Trail, with a depth of expertise in Deaf and hard-of-hearing care that is unusual to find this far from a big city. For a family sorting through a diagnosis, an adult starting therapy, or a school that needs an evaluation done right, that combination of range and specialization is the reason to make the call.

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