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Style Spotlight~Moving Up and Growing Too!
By Liz Huegel
Mary Sudduth,
Licensed Clinical
Social Worker
(LCSW) and
sole proprietor
of the Wellness Place in Warsaw, is
excited to announce the business
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has moved and the sta
is growing! On March 1st,
2013 they moved from the
old farmhouse on Oldhams
Road to their new location
at 622 Main Street, Warsaw.
Locals will remember the
structure as the old People’s
Oil oce building located
in the heart of downtown
Warsaw. Equally exciting is the
addition of three new service
providers: Dr. Mathieu Sisk;
Chiropractor, Holly Bryant;
Certied Massage erapist,
and Perry Campanella, LPC
and Accudetox specialist.
ese specialists will join the existing
independent contractors—Suzanne
Souders, LCSW, and Douglas Nelson,
an Anger/Violence Prevention
Specialist, both of whom see clients
at the Wellness Place part-time.
Dianne orn is the Administrative
Assistant, and let’s not forget Georgia
—the rescued retrievermix
who gently greets
the clients at the door!
Finally, partnering with
the practice will be Bill
Williams, the owner of
Pathway Counseling
Services—a case
management business
that provides stop-gap
measures to keep at
risk clients functioning
in the community.
Mary has been a
master’s level social
worker for 20 years. She
earned her Bachelor’s
degree from Christopher
Newport University
in Newport News in
1992, and her Master’s
degree from Virginia
Commonwealth
University, Richmond
in 1993. Medical social
work has been her
focus for most of her
career, specializing in
gerontology. She enjoys working
with the elderly and has worked in
hospice, oncology units, nursing
homes, mental health facilities,
and non-prot organizations.
She has published scholarly
articles, including her master’s
thesis on grief reaction. She
earned her LCSW in 2008, and
opened the Wellness Place in
2009 where she now provides
psychotherapeutic counseling.
In 2001, Mary moved to the
Northern Neck to marry her
childhood sweetheart, Barry Sudduth.
ey had dated for about two years
while growing up in Hampton,
Virginia and then went their separate
ways after high school. ey had
both been married and subsequently
divorced when Barry decided to nd
her again. She had three children
by her rst marriage: Andrew, 27,
Philip, 24, and Kyla,
19. Barry has two
step-children from his
previous marriage,
and together they have
one child, Zada Abigail
(Abby) Elizabeth
Sudduth, age 9.
When she’s not at
the clinic, Mary enjoys
living and working on
Springview Farm, the
70 acre farm she and
Barry own and operate
outside of Warsaw. Ten
acres are dedicated
to growing organic
vegetables, which they sell at produce
markets locally and in Northern
Virginia. ey also grow and sell
assorted native owers, which they
cut and deliver to the same markets.
irty acres are used to grow hay and
the remaining 30 acres are wooded.
ey raise goats and chickens which
happily provide the perfect natural
fertilizer for the organic crops.
She works on the farm on
Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
attends church on Sundays and runs
Spring 2013
the clinic on Mondays, Wednesdays
and ursdays. Needless to say,
Mary is a very busy lady! Sometimes
she even nds time to play with the
Northern Neck Orchestra, along
with her husband and daughter,
as well as the piano at church.
When they can she and Barry like
to trade some of their produce for
local, grass-fed meats, and they enjoy
the benets of partial ownership of
a dairy cow. e bovine lives on a
dairy farm in Montross, and is cared
for by the primary owner. By being
a partial owner, Mary is entitled
to take a gallon of raw milk each
week. Because it is illegal to sell raw
milk, partial ownership of a cow has
become a growing trend for folks
wanting whole raw milk instead of the
pasteurized and homogenized variety
oered in the grocery store. She is a
self-taught gourmet cook and enjoys
using home grown
herbs in her recipes.
Mary’s goal is
to provide health
and wellness to the
community. She
believes God called
her to bring healing
to people and that the
Wellness Place is her
place for ministry.
Consequently, she
tries to help people
heal their lives
through mental,
spiritual and physical
methods. Whether it
is organic coees and teas, natural
soaps, or an assortment of ancient
perfumes for aroma therapy, Mary
oers products as well as services
for a well-balanced life. As it says on
the back of her business card, (it’s)
“more than just a state of mind.”
Call Mary at 804-472-3706, or send
an email inquiry to mary.sudduth@
wellnessplace1.cominformation.
Liz Huegel photos.
ehuegel@chesapeakestyle.com