Community Highlights

Meet the People Making a Difference in Black Northern Virginia

Our community is filled with people and organizations doing meaningful work, creating opportunities, helping others and making Northern Virginia a better place to call home.

BASONOVA Community Highlights helps you get to know them.

Black community volunteers packing donation boxes while an adult mentors a teenager
Michelle Gorden, licensed professional counselor and owner of NoVA Clinical CounselingCommunity Highlight

Current Community Highlight

Michelle Gorden: Creating Support for the Unsupported

Licensed Professional Counselor • Educator • Clinical Supervisor • Owner, NoVA Clinical Counseling

For Michelle Gorden, mental health care begins with something simple but powerful: making sure people feel seen, heard, and understood.

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