Welcome to Nova Insight Integrative Therapy
The name Nova Insight reflects an idea about the therapeutic process: nova means "new." New insight. New perspective. New understanding. (It's of course also shorthand for Northern Virginia, where the practice is proudly based.) These shifts in how you see yourself and your experiences are where real growth happens. The vision here 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. No single method works for everyone, and each person's healing journey is different. That's why an integrative approach draws from a wide range of methods: EMDR, somatic work, attachment-based therapy, mindfulness, and more, tailored 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.
About
Leigh Roberts, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed in: Virginia, Maryland & Florida
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.
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.