CARE & COUNSELING CENTER

Welcome to the
Care & Counseling Center
Serving the needs of our community with quality and affordable care.
About
The Care and Counseling Center at Burke Community Church transforms lives through focused actions that provide immediate relief and long-term solutions leading to healthy life and authentic relationships with Christ and with others.
We accomplish this mission through strong collaboration, integrated services, and complementary care and counseling efforts. In all actions, we strive to model Christ and demonstrate His love to our congregation and local community. We seek to treat people with dignity, provide them hope, and equip and inspire them for healthy life transformation.
In June 2016, our Elder Council sought the Lord’s guidance out of a desire to faithfully respond to the overwhelming blessings He had bestowed upon our church. The elders asked, “What can we do now to prepare for what God has next for Burke Community Church?” God answered by moving on their hearts to commission an effort that would pass God’s blessings deeper into our church and surrounding community.
This answer gave birth to the vision to utilize our expanded facilities and resources to establish a center that would transform lives and impact culture with God’s timeless truth and life-giving gospel. Now, after considerable research and planning, we held our grand opening on Sunday, September 26, 2021 and celebrated the realization this vision as our new Care & Counseling Center!
The Care & Counseling Center is located at Burke Community Church at 9900 Old Keene Mill Road in Burke, Virginia. Map & Directions
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Counseling
The Counseling Center at Burke Community Church (BCC) provides biblically centered, psychologically informed professional counseling and related services to foster healthy life and deeper relationships with Christ and each other for persons within BCC and the local community.
We provide comprehensive services to restore and heal emotional, mental, and spiritual health of persons in the community through biblically based counseling that is integrated with effective insights from psychology and social science. Our services empower persons with a healthy understanding of self and equip persons for a deeper relationship with Christ and others. The Counseling Center operates in strong collaboration with the Care Center to deliver integrated services and complimentary efforts to meet needs of persons within our community.
We understand that time and geography can be barriers to receiving counseling. We are pleased to offer both telehealth and in-person services.
We seek to provide a safe, caring environment that values you and recognizes your inherent significance to the Lord and this world. You are the only unique you, and we want to treasure and celebrate that as we partner with you in a therapeutic relationship to develop the healthy life you desire. We will help you clarify the goals for life change you seek and will support your success in achieving these goals.
We offer counseling for:
- individuals, couples, and families
- children, adolescents, and adults, including the elderly
We offer professional counseling grounded in a biblical perspective for life issues related to:
- anxiety
- grief
- loss
- depression
- anger management
- child and adolescent issues
- parenting challenges
- trauma
- life transition and adjustment
- eating issues
- alcohol and drug problems
- unhealthy sexual activity
- pornography use
- Christian life
- obsessive/compulsive issues
- marriage preparation
- divorce recovery
- marriage counseling for biological and blended families
We are committed to providing services that are affordable to those in our community; therefore, we offer professional mental health counseling at a rate of $60 a session. Most sessions are 50-60 minutes. We do not bill insurance companies for services, but, if requested, we will provide you the information you need to file an out-of-network claim.
Our Counseling Team

Bob Thornton
A native Texan, Bob joined the staff in 2011 after a final Pentagon assignment following an Army career in Military Intelligence. He holds master’s degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary in Christian Leadership and Professional Counseling. Bob integrates insights from Scripture and psychology to empower people for a healthy life enriched by a deeper relationship with God, self, and others. He has a special passion to foster healthy, vitalized marriages. Bob and Kathi, his wife of over 28 years, enjoy catching movies and cheering for the Dallas Cowboys when not doing their favorite thing – fun family time with their kids.

Bethany Hardy
Bethany is a licensed professional counselor and board-certified supervisor in Virginia and in New Hampshire. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families for both individual and group counseling. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. Bethany has experience working with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, grief, severe mental illnesses, substance use, abuse, domestic violence, co-dependency, parenting and family issues and issues related to faith.

Tatiana Reyes
Tatiana is a Counseling Resident and a National Certified Counselor (NCC). A military veteran, she served with the National Guard from 2009-2021. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Psychology and Professional Counseling from Liberty University. Tatiana uses Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) approaches to provide individual and couples’ counseling to clients dealing with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, anger, academic problems, lack of social skills, interpersonal challenges, and more.

Julianne Stewart
Julianne is a Resident in Counseling and received her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She uses a variety of evidence based approaches to counseling, including but not limited to, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), mind/body, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), using a person centered approach. She has experience working with children and adults who have experienced trauma, sexual assault, anxiety, eating disorders, depression, grief, and other life challenges.

Kelly McGuire
Kelly is a Resident in Counseling and earned her MA in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. She uses a variety of evidence-based interventions with her clients including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Exposure Response Prevention Therapy (ERP). Kelly has experience working with children and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self- injury, relational problems and other difficult life experiences.

Amy Zacaroli

Jessica Cosgriff
Jessica is an Intern in Counseling and is currently pursuing her MA in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling from Regent University. Jessica uses a variety of evidence-based practices with an emphasis on Emotion Focused Therapy and healing attachment for individuals, couples, and families.

Zoie Berry
Zoie received her bachelor’s degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University and is an Intern in Counseling as she pursues her MA in Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary. Zoie uses a variety of evidence based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and takes a person-centered approach in her counseling. These approaches serve to aid clients in counseling with techniques, tools, and time in order to work through issues such as depression, anxiety, self-esteem, anger, and interpersonal problems.
Care
The Care Center at Burke Community Church serves as both the nerve center for outreach into our local community, and as a resource for poor and hurting among us. Through the Center, we seek to engage and connect the love and resources of the vibrant and dynamic body of Burke Community Church with the needs of less privileged communities in Northern Virginia.
Our emphasis is to meet people where they are by mobilizing volunteers to serve in the communities God has led us to through His plan for transforming lives and drawing souls to Him. For ways to serve in the Care Center, please visit our Local Outreach webpage.
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Our Care Team

Alec Zacaroli
Alec has a passion for the lost and disenfranchised in our world. Prior to becoming a pastor, Alec practiced law for 20 years and worked as a reporter prior to that. In 2003, he and his wife Amy founded 25:40, a ministry for risk-children in rural South Africa, where he lived as a child. Alec received a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, a JD from the American University, and a BA from the George Washington University. He and Amy have four amazing children, Nick, Sophie, Hannah and Rebecca.

Debra Armstrong-Cezar
Debra Armstrong-Cezar has been a part of the Burke Community Church community for over ten years. She has a Bachelor’s in Criminal Psychology and a minor in Christian Counseling. Debra brings a passion for helping those in need and providing services that will help people come out of homelessness and learn life skills to break the cycle of poverty. Married with two children, she enjoys gardening and crafting projects.

Caroline Carroll
Caroline Carroll is the Community Outreach Assistant at Burke Community Church. Caroline joins BCC’s Care Team excited to support the growing Outreach & Missions program. She is passionate about being part of a team that helps bring “…a hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11) to those who may have lost sight of what that means. Caroline has a BA in English and enjoys music, reading, writing, being outdoors and spending time with her husband, their three sons, and three dogs.
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Contact
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