Whitney Noftsier

Whitney Noftsier, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Brickel and Associates, LLC in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. She specializes in trauma, anxiety, depression, self-harm, relationship issues, substance use, and grief and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and mindfulness-based therapies.

Her experience includes schools, home-based programs, outpatient mental health agencies, and military installations, and she brings a trauma-informed perspective to help clients understand how life experiences affect current functioning.

Whitney is committed to cultural competence and has completed advanced clinical training in trauma treatment, perinatal mental health, and couples therapy. She works collaboratively to build safe, trusting therapeutic relationships that leverage clients’ strengths toward meaningful change.