Anna Costa, LPC
Counseling for Adolescents, Adults, and Families
Anna Costa is a Licensed Professional Counselor at Fig Tree Therapy who works with adolescents, adults, and families in Virginia. She provides counseling for anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment concerns, relationship challenges, communication difficulties, and life transitions. Anna is passionate about creating a counseling space where clients feel safe, supported, and understood as they work toward healing and meaningful change.
Education and Clinical Background
Anna’s counseling journey began after earning her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later received her Master’s degree in Counseling from Wake Forest University and has spent the past 10 years working with clients in both individual and group settings.
Her experience includes long-term residential therapy, school-based settings, and private practice. These different environments have allowed Anna to work with a wide range of emotional, relational, and behavioral concerns while developing a flexible and thoughtful clinical approach. Today, she brings that experience into private practice, where she is able to offer both depth and individualized care to the clients she serves.
Anna’s Counseling Approach
Anna’s work is rooted in person-centered counseling. She believes each person has God-given worth and the capacity for growth, healing, and change. Her goal is to help clients access the internal and relational resources they need to move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and resilience.
Anna views counseling as a collaborative process. She seeks to build a genuine therapeutic relationship where clients feel known, respected, and encouraged. Through that process, clients often develop greater self-awareness, stronger emotional insight, and the ability to face life’s challenges with more confidence and support.
Therapeutic Modalities and Areas of Focus
While Anna’s foundation is person-centered therapy, she also draws from a variety of evidence-based counseling approaches based on each client’s goals and needs. Her work may include solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, family systems work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and EMDR.
This integrative approach allows Anna to help clients identify patterns, explore obstacles to growth, process past and present pain, and develop practical tools for change. She works with clients experiencing concerns such as:
- anxiety
- depression
- trauma
- attachment issues
- relationship concerns
- family dynamics
- communication struggles
- life transitions
Anna believes counseling should be tailored to the individual rather than forced into a one-size-fits-all model. She works with each client to identify meaningful goals and determine the best path forward.
A Whole-Person View of Healing
Because Anna believes no person exists in isolation, counseling often includes exploring the larger context of a client’s life. This may involve looking at family relationships, emotional patterns, communication styles, worldview, and the experiences that have shaped how a person thinks, feels, and relates to others.
Anna understands that therapy can sometimes feel difficult before it feels relieving. Honest work often brings painful emotions to the surface. Even so, she believes beginning counseling is a brave step toward prioritizing mental health, healing, and wellness. She considers it a privilege to walk alongside clients in that process.
Faith and Spiritual Integration
For clients who are comfortable with that approach, Anna is glad to incorporate faith and spirituality into the counseling process. At Fig Tree Therapy, we recognize that emotional health and spiritual life are often deeply connected. Anna seeks to honor the whole person and provide care that is both clinically grounded and personally meaningful.
She brings her whole and authentic self to the counseling relationship in hopes of creating a space that feels safe, genuine, and healing.
Life Outside the Counseling Office
Outside of counseling, Anna enjoys exploring Richmond with her husband and their young family. They moved to the area for her husband’s medical residency and are continuing to settle into life in Virginia. With a baby son and a very needy Boxer dog, life is full and active. As a family, they love being outdoors, going for walks, and enjoying the natural beauty of Richmond.