Compassionate care, grounded in your story and guided by genuine connection.
You deserve to feel heard, supported, and understood. At Astral Perceptions, we provide a safe space for healing, growth, and meaningful change.
Our Mission
To provide compassionate, client-focused mental health support that helps individuals achieve healthier, more peaceful, and more fulfilling lives.
We are committed to care that respects each client’s cultural heritage, family structure, values, personal identity, and lived experience.
Our Approach
We take a holistic approach to counseling, supporting the mind, body, and spirit. Our care is grounded in evidence-based techniques and tailored to help each client move toward healing, growth, and emotional well-being.
About Virginia
Virginia believes in creating a warm, collaborative space where clients feel seen, heard, and supported. Using evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, mindfulness, trauma-informed therapy, and strengths-based therapy, she tailors each session to each person’s unique goals and needs.
Her diverse background includes work as a businesswoman, international trainer, legal and accounting assistant, and high school teacher — but her passion has always been rooted in helping others improve their mental and emotional well-being.
Virginia is also a proud fiancée, mother of five, and grandmother of seven. In her free time, she enjoys crafting, fishing, swimming, gardening, and caring for her animals.
About Astral Perceptions
The name Astral Perceptions reflects the idea of seeing life from a different perspective — like viewing the world from a distant star.
Each person experiences life through their own unique lens, shaped by their story, challenges, and strengths. Understanding that perspective is a meaningful part of the healing process.
We believe every individual is uniquely valuable and capable of growth, healing, and living a fulfilling life.
How We Support Healing
Warm, relational care
Clients are met with empathy, respect, and a calming therapeutic presence.
Evidence-based support
Therapy is grounded in trusted methods tailored to each client’s needs and goals.
Whole-person perspective
Care honors the full person, not just the symptoms or stress they are carrying.
Experience That’s Rooted in Service
Since returning to college in her 40s, Virginia has dedicated her life to helping others find hope, healing, and peace.
She began her counseling career in Arizona, supporting individuals with serious mental illness through AHCCCS, where she developed programs to improve daily functioning, self-esteem, and self-worth. During COVID-19, she served as a virtual therapist with Lifeline PCS.
After relocating to Illinois, Virginia worked as a K–12 school counselor, taught mental health classes, and counseled clients of all ages through community mental health services.
She has also provided crisis support to inmates at local jails and patients in emergency room settings.
Supporting mental health, tailored to your needs
of people who engage in therapy report improvement in emotional health and overall functioning.
of individuals with depression improve with therapy, especially with evidence-based approaches like CBT.
of individuals with anxiety disorders show significant reduction in symptoms after therapy.
Begin your healing journey
Astral Perceptions offers remote counseling services for residents of Oregon and South Carolina.