Anne Stewart Award Recipients

Jennifer C. Thomas, LCSW has maintained an affirming and child-centered psychotherapy practice in the Roanoke Valley for 20 years. Jennifer studied at the University of Virginia and later Smith College School for Social Work, where she was introduced to play therapy and ran out to buy a set of puppets like her professor’s the same day. Her clinical social work interests have included attachment trauma and grief support. In 2014, along with her husband, she self-published It’s So Hard to Say “Goodbye,” a journaling booklet about the feelings of loss, created especially for use at the end of therapy.

Jennifer credits involvement with Roanoke’s KIDS Group and VAPT for wonderfully supportive colleagues and extraordinary professional development; Dr. Garry Landreth was her first VAPT conference presenter, and that opportunity changed her life and has influenced relationships with every client since. Jennifer lives with her husband and cats in Salem.