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“I’d never gone 700 miles for a job interview in my life!” she recalled. But when she got to Rappahannock, she found a community which reminded her a lot of the one she left behind in Princeton, Kentucky. “It is very similar . . . there are a lot of people who are proud that they have lived here for two, three and four generations.”
For Ms. Mock, directing a small two-therapist office will be a challenge she is eager to meet. “We do a little bit of everything,” she said, with plenty of patient counseling along with the administrative duties of the director.
She joins therapist Gary Rafala, who came to Rappahannock County a year ago. “It’s an added boost here,” Ms. Mock said, "having a female therapist. It’s ideal having both male and female therapists available, since some people feel more comfortable with one or the other.”
And having her close at hand in Rappahannock will augment the Community Services Center’s new women’s substance abuse specialist, who will work out of CSC’s Culpeper headquarters. “That is a big push right now,” Ms. Mock explained, “to identify and provide services for women with substance abuse problems.” In rural counties, like cities, women who abuse alcohol, tranquilizers and other drugs can more easily hide their addictions because they are at home, not subjected to the outside pressures faced by many male substance abusers.
And, for many families, the
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