Welcome to Nova Insight Integrative Therapy
The name Nova Insight reflects what we believe about the therapeutic process: nova means "new." New insight. New perspective. New understanding. (It's of course also shorthand for Northern Virginia, where we're proud to be based.) These shifts in how you see yourself and your experiences are where real growth happens. Our vision is simple: to provide therapy that facilitates healing through care and new understanding.
What is Integrative Therapy?
Integrative therapy is a flexible approach that blends different therapeutic techniques to meet the unique needs of each person. We believe that no single method works for everyone, and each person's healing journey is different. That's why we draw from a wide range of approaches: EMDR, somatic work, attachment-based therapy, mindfulness, and more. We tailor our work to what actually resonates with you. By working with both the mind and body, integrative therapy helps shift long-standing patterns and beliefs, encouraging personal growth and resilience. Your healing journey deserves an approach that fits who you are and where you are right now.
Our Therapists
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed in: Virginia & Maryland
Leigh sees her role in therapy as part guide, part collaborator. Together, she explores the threads of her clients' stories and brings hidden patterns into focus. With over a decade in human services, she helps people understand how early relationships, trauma, and chronic stress have shaped them, so they can begin moving toward something that feels more true to who they are.
She draws from EMDR, Deep Brain Reorienting, Internal Family Systems, somatic practices, and mindfulness to support healing that engages both mind and body. Therapy with Leigh is grounded and genuine, with space for gentle challenge when it serves your growth. She believes curiosity is where real change begins. Leigh works with teens, adults, and older adults navigating trauma and PTSD, life transitions, anxiety, depression, dissociative disorders, relationship issues, self-harm, and stress management.
Laurie Nathan-Furtuna, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed in: Virginia
Laurie approaches her clients from a relational perspective. She values attachment and strength-based modalities in developing a genuine relationship with each client so that healing and lasting change can take place. Through this approach, clients gain perspective on their difficulties and expand insight into root causes.
She works with individual adults, older teens, couples, and families managing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, pregnancy and postpartum concerns, family conflict, relationship issues, and women's issues. Her goal is to make therapy approachable through authentic connection and collaboration, creating a respectful environment where clients can share who they are and identify the changes they want to see.
Our Therapeutic Space
We're located in the historic Joshua Gunnell House in downtown Fairfax, Virginia, a beautifully restored building that feels both grounded in history and open to new beginnings. It's a fitting home for the work we do here.