FACES of Fauquier 2023

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FAUQUIER

A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

We’re excited to present the second edition of our premier special section:

FACES of Fauquier!

This separate section of Warrenton Lifestyle focuses on some of the many amazing faces that help make Fauquier County a truly unique business community. You might recognize many of the folks on these pages as friends and neighbors..

We hope you enjoy FACES of Fauquier and visit the featured businesses.

FACES of Fauquier is published annually in our January issue and is also available as a digital edition on our website at fauquiernow.com/faces2023.

Thank you to all the businesses for being part of this special section.

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FLOORING SALES & INSTALLATION

Colvin Floors

Shane Colvin

Shane Colvin grew up learning everything about flooring from his father, Henry, who started in commercial and residential flooring sales and installation in 1971. Shane gradually took over the well-established and trusted company from his dad and was primarily managing the business by 2015. He took over completely when Henry passed away in 2020. Since then, Shane has had to face some tough curveballs.

During COVID, the business remained operational. “We worked through the height of the pandemic and kept our installers and staff employed and all as safe as possible,” Shane said. The changes and fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, and the housing market that have occurred since then also directly impact the business. It has been a tremendous achievement for the business to survive the pandemic and unstable market conditions.

Shane’s staff, a team of five, is crucial. His mother, Claudia, who has done the bookkeeping from day one, still does it to this day. “Jenn, Kelli, Mike, and Jeremy are at the front of everything. They’re always eager to provide individualized attention to each customer that comes through the door. They will even meet clients after hours if that’s what it takes.”

Shane’s work ethic is the same. Running the family business has been a rewarding, yet demanding job. His years of experience have provided him with outstanding expertise and insight into managing any flooring-related matters, no matter how difficult or complex. He invests the time to research and learn everything about a new product and its installation before he brings it into the showroom. He has earned a reputation as a well-respected and trusted expert in all aspects of the flooring business.

Colvin’s experienced crew specializes in

the installation of specific types of flooring. They are carefully hand-picked to work for Colvin. The current crews have been used by Colvin Floors for years and must maintain the highest quality standards. They are respectful of the customers and do everything necessary to ensure that the job is completed promptly and correctly.

Clients can see the wide variety of flooring materials ranging from carpet to hard surfaces on display at the Warrenton store or on the Colvin Floors website. Onstaff design consultants are well-versed and guide customers through the process of choosing the materials and colors that will work best in their space.

“We will consistently push the boundary to provide the highest level of product and service possible,” Shane said. “We’re going to be there for customers whenever they need us, whatever their needs may be— however big or small.”

Commercial Real Estate Services (CRES) has been recognized as Fauquier’s Best Commercial Real Estate Company for two years running in Warrenton Lifestyle’s Best of Fauquier contest. They’ve been around since 1999, serving the larger DMV area while based in Warrenton.

The company works with commercial real estate that’s anywhere from 3,000 square feet for lease to over 500 acres for sale. Who’s behind the company with such longevity and reach? Four people, including President Bill Chipman and there’s only more growth on the horizon for CRES.

They work on the sale, lease, and appraisal of commercial real estate. Most of their daily business is in sales.

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES

CRES

Bill Chipman

They also offer consultation services and there’s a “possibility of starting an investment and development side for the company,” Chipman said.

Being based in Warrenton while serving a large region gives CRES a unique perspective on Fauquier County compared to our neighboring metropolitan areas.

Chipman believes commercial growth is exactly what Fauquier needs and predicts it will take place since available land in adjoining counties is dwindling.

“Smart commercial growth in [Fauquier] will help lessen the tax burden that is currently too dependent on the residential tax base,” Chipman explained, and commercial growth “typically does

not put too heavy of a burden on schools, fire and rescue, and other public facilities.”

Chipman cites an example of commercial growth, “We are representing a property that is proposed for a data center development that will greatly increase the commercial tax base that, we believe, have minimal impact to the surrounding properties given its location and existing infrastructure on the site” Chipman said.

Speaking of surroundings, despite reaching across the DMV, CRES shines in Warrenton. “We believe our company offers the best full-service commercial real estate services in and around Fauquier County,” Chipman said.

FirstLight Home Care of Warrenton

Presidents Stacey and Mark Harvey

FirstLight Home Care has been voted Best Home Health Care in Warrenton Lifestyle’s Best of Fauquier contest for the last two years, putting them on top despite COVID’s devastating impact on healthcare.

“Staffing is always a challenge since you have a lot of people who have gotten out of healthcare because of the fear of the pandemic,” Stacey said. Even so, they’ve managed to build a staff of 80 caregivers and five office staff.

“We’re happy with the growth of the business, but we’ve sadly outgrown our Main Street office,” Stacey said. They are now located on Culpeper Street across from the courthouse.

What won’t be changing is their quality home care services to their clients, who

are mostly seniors but can also include new parents who may be stressed by their new role. Their caregivers can help with household tasks, daily living challenges, transportation, companionship, and more.

Their certified nurse assistants and personal care assistants attend regular training sessions to keep up to date on industry standards, learning things like Hoyer lift operation and how to spot depression in the elderly.

In addition, to maximize their positive impact, Stacey recently became certified in case management and public guardianship.

“That means I can help out with coordinating between client’s doctors, [keep] in touch with the families to

keep them updated, [and help] with insurance,” she said. This can take a lot of stress off family members.

The challenge with clients is educating them on when to seek out FirstLight’s services. Many come to them as a last resort, when the stress of caregiving is beginning to take its toll.

“We’d like to get in to help as soon as possible, before that happens. We’re happy to start out slowly, visiting infrequently at first so people can get used to the services,” Stacey said.

“When we look for caregivers, we look for the heart, somebody who truly cares and wants to do this,” Stacey said. “I can train somebody how to properly give a bath, I can't train the heart.”

“We really enjoy helping [bring] the client's vision … to life,” Valerie Gibson, president of Gibson Home Services, said. Whether it’s adding flair with wainscoting, building a deck, or adding some dimension with coffered ceilings (one of Gibson’s favorites), Gibson loves to see the transformation of the client’s space.

Gibson and co-founder and vice president Josh Gibson, who had years of construction experience under his belt, started the business in 2005, and have been exceeding clients’ expectations ever since.

Gibson Home Services offers just about every service needed to remodel, repair, maintain, or improve clients’ homes, from interior work such as flooring, kitchens, basements, bathrooms, and custom carpentry, to exterior projects such as windows and doors, decks and porches, and gutters, just to name a few. Building

Gibson Home Services

Valerie Gibson

materials used are chosen for high quality and longevity.

“We try to offer as many services as we can do really well for our clients,” Gibson said. “If it's something that we can't do ourselves, we try to align with subcontractors that have the same core values, operate the same way, [and] offer the same level of service and client experience that we do.” A tall order, considering their bottom line is “If it isn’t good enough for our home, then it isn’t good enough for yours.”

In their line of work, “getting people motivated, on your page, and on track for your vision can be a challenge,” Gibson said. With four new hires in 2022, bringing their team to 13 employees, the Gibsons have built a cohesive team that meets their high standards and provides clients with top-notch service.

In the future, Gibson Home Services

will be providing these services from their new home on Main Street in The Plains, which they have been looking forward to for quite a while.

They plan to add a showroom as well, where they can offer more hand-selected products and streamline their customers’ shopping experience by enabling them to see a variety of options at once.

They hope to fill their showroom with quality cabinets, countertops, flooring, decking, and more. “We’re not sure what it’s going to look like yet exactly but we would like to try to do something along a good, better, [and] best scenario focused on value and longevity so that clients can be confident they are getting a quality product that will last them for years to come,” she added.

With over 18 years worth of exceeding expectations, it seems Gibson Home Services is right on track.

TAX PREPARATION

H&R Block

Jean Queen

Anyone who stops by for help from H&R Block in Warrenton or Bealeton “may not know my name, but they know the person who does their taxes and has been doing it for 10-20 years,” said franchise owner Jean Queen.

Queen has been in the tax game for 55 years. She started off working for H&R Block corporate and bought her first franchise, the Warrenton office, in 1972. She had always been interested in owning a franchise and had five offices at one point. Nowadays she owns the Warrenton, Bealeton, Culpeper, and Orange offices.

“The business is a family affair,” she said. Her husband helps with maintenance in the office. Her daughter

Norma graduated from filling staplers and opening boxes as a kid to managing the Culpeper office. “She’s my right hand. She’s been with me for over 35 years,” Queen said.

With loyal employees and clients who have been with the office for over 30 years, the concept of family goes further. Most of their employees are local and many Fauquier County clients have been coming for years.

“We offer all the products and services that a corporate office would,” Queen said, which includes personal and business taxes; corporation, partnership, estate, and trust returns; bookkeeping and more.

“Back when I started, we did

everything by hand… Over the years, things have changed with technology and taxes,” Queen said. They keep their skills sharp with annual training and do an average of about 4,000 returns in the county each year.

Even if there’s something they haven’t seen, they know where and how to find what they need to serve every client. They’ll even offer special appointments if someone can’t make it in during office hours–all you must do is ask.

Finances can be considered personal. “[Clients] will share their whole life story with you,” Queen said. But Queen’s H&R Block family shows up. “We don’t disappear after tax season… We’re here all year long,” she said.

HEARING CARE

Hearing Assessment Center

Dr. Nikki Butler

Dr. Nicolette “Nikki” Butler, Au.D. comes to Warrenton, and the Warrenton Hearing Assessment Center (HAC), from Alaska, where she completed her residency and studied the relationship between speech comprehension and our memory.

Dr. Butler is certified by the American Board of Audiology, a distinction only held by 15% of audiologists.

When HAC purchased the private audiology practice previously known as Fauquier Hearing Services in 2019, Dr. Butler joined the team as part of the transition. Their current practice is a team of three: Dr. Butler, Hearing Instrument Specialist Dawn Jeckell, BC-HIS, and Office Manager Becky Abdullah. They hope to add a patient care coordinator to the mix.

The team offers all of the audiology

services with the exception of balance testing, including hearing testing and protection, hearing aid fitting and repair, tinnitus treatment, and more.

“There are 48 million Americans with hearing loss. Many in our community,” Dr. Butler said. Hearing loss can be enabled by or increase the risk of other health and cognitive declines such as diabetes, depression, cardiovascular disease, and even dementia.

“Recent research shows that the risk of developing dementia increases with the severity of the hearing loss,” Dr. Butler said. Hearing loss can affect your social, emotional, and physical health tenfold.

“Studies have shown that cognitive function can be improved after only three months of consistent use of properly fit hearing devices,” Dr. Butler

said. “It's just a matter of people seeking the right help as soon as they notice a problem.”

People wait an average of seven years to be seen for hearing loss. “To help overcome this challenge, we spend a significant portion of a hearing evaluation appointment on education and counseling,” she added.

Part of that education can be dispelling misconceptions. Of those, Dr. Butler summarizes it as such: hearing loss is never normal, it slowly progresses, it has an impact on your daily life, and it should be tested by a professional.

“The sooner you treat your hearing loss, the sooner the brain can begin retraining to process sound,” Dr. Butler advised, and she’s here to hear you out.

HOSPICE CARE

ProMedica/Heartland Hospice Care

Hawes

When ProMedica/Heartland Hospice Care moved to Warrenton in 2010 from their Fairfax office, it was a move towards what they knew rather than away from it.

“All [65] of my staff that work here are local so they're able to get to their patients quickly and serve the community that they live in,” Senior Administrator Amber Hawes said. “They're able to take care of their neighbors, which is kind of the heart of Warrenton in of itself.”

“We provide care wherever a patient calls home, whether that's actually in a home or in an assisted living facility, a nursing home, [or] hospital,” Hawes said. That care can encompass psychosocial or spiritual support, pain and medication management, equipment, therapy, or bereavement services with a varied care team.

In the cases where care is in a healthcare facility, “We work with the staff to make sure that they have all of their needs met,” Hawes added. The benefit for both medical staff and patients: “We’re able to do one-on-one care,” she said.

Hawes worked at Fauquier Health Rehabilitation and Nursing Center and an assisted living facility in town as an RN before joining ProMedica/Heartland in 2010. “Growing up here and having been born and raised here, it's nice to have the opportunity and the privilege to take care of my friends’ parents, aunts, and uncles,” she said.

“Hospice has a stigma [that] you're actively dying,” she added. While Medicare, their primary payer, makes some regulations on what qualifies, people can go on and off hospice multiple

times. “We are able to take care of people for over a long term period,” Hawes said.

The biggest hurdle is getting people to utilize hospice sooner. “We can do so much of a better job when we have six months to be able to help prepare family and a patient for end of life instead of six days or six hours,” Hawes said.

Hawes is also now the Virginia State Representative for My Hospice Ambassador, which means she’s often at the capitol pushing for change. “If people have questions or issues that they want to raise with the local congressman, I'm always happy to advocate,” she said.

Above (from left to right): Sadia LaRose, Kelly Harris, Eric Reeves, Mike Reese, Jenn Horste, Amber Hawes, Angela Jacobs, Dana Conway

Amber

LEGAL SERVICES

Growing up, Fauquier County native Attorney Marie Washington watched Matlock with her grandfather and became fascinated with the law. Now, seeing the wide range of different issues that come through her Old Town Warrenton office every day, she realizes that Matlock was true to life in at least one way: you can never know what to expect.

It seems like there’s no side of law that Washington doesn’t work in. Since 2003, The Law Office of Marie Washington has been helping clients with an impressive scope of issues pertaining to criminal and traffic violations, domestic relations, collections, business law, estate planning and probate, landlord-tenant issues, and more.

Office of Marie Washington

She and her staff go above and beyond to be welcoming to anyone who could use their help and to put clients at ease in what is sometimes a very stressful situation. She wants people to be comfortable coming to her. “Lawyers are human beings too,” she said. “No need to be intimidated. It is a team effort to get a desired outcome for your legal issue.”

Professionally, Washington has earned local and national awards across all the areas of law she practices. Just this past November, she was admitted to the Supreme Court Bar. She has also been voted Best Lawyer in Warrenton Lifestyle’s Best of Fauquier contest multiple times.

Washington is well known locally for her community involvement and charitable work.

In her capacity as a lawyer, she has volunteered at Expungement Clinics, which involve helping people clear criminal records, and has organized student programs with a junior judges’ program in the elementary schools and a summer legal seminar program at the high school level. “I was able to help with Wills for Heroes, a free program to produce wills for first responders and their spouses, in the Spring in Culpeper.”

In other volunteer work, she has served on the boards of multiple community nonprofits and organizations, including the Mental Health Association of Fauquier, Warrenton United Methodist Church, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fauquier, and others. “I would like to do something more with elder care and nursing homes.”

Law

Marie Washington

Minera Orthodontics

Dr. Soledad Minera, DDS

“We make braces fun,” Minera Orthodontics owner Dr. Soledad Minera, DDS said.

A native of Guatemala, Dr. Minera has a doctorate in dental surgery from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, and spent an additional three years earning an Orthodontic and Dentofacial Orthopedics degree from Rutgers School of Dental Medicine.

Minera took over the practice in 2020 after working under previous owners Drs. Robert and Juliana Miller for a couple of years. Unsure that she’d be able to practice as an orthodontist when they moved to Warrenton due to the already

established practices, she accepted a part-time position at Miller Orthodontics.

“That first day, I felt like I was walking into my destiny. The office felt right, the vibe, the staff. I never thought to own the practice, but when the opportunity arose, it was like a dream come true,” she said.

Minera was thrilled when many of the staff stayed with her through the transition. “We are a fun, loving, and dedicated group of people. You will feel it as soon as you walk in the door for the first time,” Dr. Minera said.

“We love what we do. We are constantly educating ourselves,” Dr. Minera said of her staff, which now numbers ten.

“We pride ourselves on being in a small town with the most advanced technology in orthodontics today,” she added. “That technology reduces treatment time and appointment [frequency].”

Digital advances in the field include digital scans, custom 3D-printed clear braces, manufactured aligners, and the ability to position metal braces with digital design.

High tech doesn’t mean unaffordable prices though. “We want everybody that wishes the best smile for themselves or their children to be able to afford it,” Dr. Minera said. “We make it possible for you to have the smile you always wanted.”

TRANSITION SERVICES

Overwhelmed, How Can I Help?, LLC

Barbara Lynn Stohlman

“I would have never known had you asked me 12 years ago what a transition service company was,” Barbara Lynn Stohlman said. Barbara is the founder of the local senior transition service company Overwhelmed, How Can I Help?, LLC (OHCIH).

When her parents passed away in 2011, she and her brother had to comb through their parents’ estate. A friend showed her an article about transition services that help in those situations. Barbara could see that doing that work would be a great use of her design, technology, and psychology background.

Barbara spent 2013 training with the national company franchise, Caring Transitions and with Conquer the Clutter. She decided she wanted to take

transition services in a new direction, so she started OHCIH, a for-profit company, in 2014.

“We’re there to help [clients] in whatever way we can. We customize it around the person that we're working with,” she said. OHCIH offers help with downsizing, packing/unpacking, moving, aging in place, estate sales, and just added interior Christmas decorating after a client asked this past holiday season.

“[About] 80% of our work is working with the aging population and some of them have different forms of dementia and physical ailments,” she said. They work with realtors, lawyers, estate planners, auctioneers, specialists, wealth advisors, or case managers to get a senior the services they need.

“You have to be willing to listen … to what their needs are and understand

where their sensitivity lies,” Barbara said. They offer a free in-home consultation to facilitate personal relationships with potential clients.

Their team is sensitive to the emotional experience of their clients. “It takes somebody that has a heart. This is … all about serving,” she added. She embodies that heart, having simultaneously juggled COVID and stage four cancer while managing the business.

Barbara made it through and continues to support her community with her business. “Our team feels that giving back is a calling,” she said.

“Nobody is really prepared,” Barbara said. That’s why OHCIH is here to make the changes in life a little easier. It’s all about taking the stress out of the transition.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative

UTILITIES

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative's roots reach back to the 1930s when Northern Piedmont Electric Cooperative (NPEC) and Virginia Electric Cooperative (VEC) were founded. NPEC merged with VEC to form REC in 1980. What was the NPEC office is now REC’s Culpeper office.

Director of Member Services & Community Relations Jeff Henry works out of the Culpeper office with a team of 81 employees, 13 of which are in member services. They’re on the larger end of energy cooperatives, but they have small-town interests.

“Our employees live in the communities we serve, and it shows,” Henry said. Their best measure of member satisfaction was when they received a JD Power score of 796, ranking

them 16th amongst all utilities in 2021.

The old company can still learn new tricks, such as with electric vehicles. As EVs gain popularity, REC has responded to the higher energy needs with innovative energy usage solutions. They’ve developed a Vividly Brighter Charging solution for EV owners to charge outside of peak hours–keeping costs down and distributing the load on REC’s transformers.

“We have made some smart investments in technology which have helped to control our distribution expenses,” Henry said. Their technology increases accessibility and transparency for members.

Their Advanced Metering Infrastructure reads energy meters through the power lines instead of dispensing people to read them. Their

Affordable Energy Efficiency program offers home upgrades that can be paid back through a member’s energy bill. Both solutions save money all around.

Even with uncontrollable factors such as rising energy prices, “we help our members by providing programs and education to help use energy as wisely as possible,” Henry said.

“We are owned and governed by our members. If there’s something you believe we should be doing, let us know,” he encouraged. “It’s not uncommon to see REC represented at community events or civic group meetings.”

“Even though the industry continues to change over the years, our core values have remained the same,” Henry said. “We are not just here for a job. We are here because we genuinely want to serve.”

Jeff Henry

RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE

Ross Real Estate

Tyler Ross

Ross Real Estate celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2022.

“From what was just me in a little shoe-box office has grown to a collection of people that are often referred to … [as] the best agents around,” broker Tyler Ross said.

Ross Real Estate now has a team of 12 licensed agents with excellent reputations who “challenge and humble” Ross. “We recruit one to two experienced agents every few years who really fit in with our professional culture and values, and who bring a wide spectrum of professional and life experiences.” This variety of experience is rarely found in the real estate community.

Focused on quality over quantity, the size of their team is still

impressive – and so is their scope of work. The agents at Ross Real Estate have listed residential properties from Shenandoah to Arlington for $85,000 to $2.4 million just last year.

Ross personally specializes in land transactions and has ventured into land-centric investments. “The personal exposure is fun for me, but also it helps me advise clients on lesser known opportunities. Whether it is conservation or development oriented, I enjoy having the personal experiences to share.”

“Anything to do with land and houses piques the curiosity of everyone in the office,” Ross said. The shared passion for real estate is not the only thing that unites their agents.

“We’re in a people business that relies on networking and sharing,” Ross explained, so in an era where a significant number of people work remotely, having a brick-and-mortar office is a way to facilitate that. “Being together [also] cultivates that familial culture our office has. We get together not just to grind down on work or set goals, but we enjoy seeing one another.” Meetings can be creative as well, such as their annual clay shoot office meeting.

The Ross Real Estate team enjoys seeing you too. If you’re considering entering the real estate market, they encourage you to shop around for lenders and Realtors–“and make sure one is from Ross Real Estate!” Ross said.

Warrenton Dental Care

Dr. Ryan Shearer

Dr. Ryan Shearer followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps as a dentist. It’s the family business for him, but that also goes for his employees at Warrenton Dental Care.

“We have a close family-type atmosphere among us who work here. We believe it’s infectious,” Dr. Shearer said. Some of the eight employees were inherited when Dr. Shearer took over the practice in 2014.

Since the original practice has been around for over 40 years, some of those staff surpass Dr. Shearer in time with the practice. Everyone at Warrenton Dental Care is about putting the time in.

“We love to get to know our patients,” Dr. Shearer said. “We take our time to make sure patients are comfortable… Once we truly understand our patients, we work together to treat them in their best interests.”

Comfort is important to the dentists at Warrenton Dental Care since they know the anxiety that can come with a trip to the dentist — as well as the repercussions of skipping a visit.

“Oral health is a major factor for quality of life,” Dr. Shearer explained. Poor oral health does more than just risk the life of your teeth–it can affect almost every aspect of our health and social lives.

That’s why their team of dentists, oral hygienists, and staff are here to offer the dental services you need without stress. They work with specialists to cover services that require more expertise in the pursuit of providing patients with the best care possible.

Patients can take the community’s word for it. Dr. Shearer’s associate Dr. Shibu Thomson, who has worked in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Culpeper for the last 20 years and has now been with the practice for three months, was voted by his peers as top dentist on Top Doctor in 2022. Dr. Shearer earned best dentist in this past year’s Best of Fauquier contest.

FARMING & AGRICULTURE

January 16 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Strother family’s ownership and stewardship of 500 acres in Delaplane that now houses the family-owned Valley View Farm, a seasonal agri-tourism destination and educational farm.

On the farm, you can find pick-yourown fruit orchards, and a Locavore Farm Market selling local artisan food, local meats and eggs, and craft beverages including wine, cider, and mead.

This history of the property is fascinating. Originally the home of the Powhatan Indians, the farm was patented in 1731. Pioneers settled in the valley in the 1740s and many structures from that era remain today.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the property was owned by Quaker pastor

Valley View Farm

The Strother Family

Henry Simpers who offered it as a stopover for the Underground Railroad. Both Union and Confederate troops camped on the property during the Civil War, including Stonewall Jackson’s troops on their way to the battle of Second Manassas.

Current owner and steward Philip Carter Strother’s great-grandfather George Thomas Strother bought the farm in 1923, which was then operated by Philip’s grandfather Charles Edward Strother, Sr. from 1926 to 1987. “He bought and sold cattle, raised sheep and horses, and built a new manor house and red barn which is the current location of the Locavore Farm Market,” Philip said. Neighbor and famous general George S. Patton enjoyed foxhunting with him as fellow members of the Cobbler Hunt.

In 1997 the property passed to Philip’s father, Charles Edward Strother, Jr., where he and Philip formed Strother Family Vineyards in 2016, and a pick-your-own attraction known as Virginia Perfection Orchard. Two years later they opened the Locavore Farm Market and Tasting Room in the historic red barn. The property passed to Philip in 2018, and was placed in trust in 2004.

Family isn’t just what built Valley View Farm, which continues to thrive under the Strother Family stewardship. Philip, who also owns Philip Carter Winery in Hume with his wife Danielle, and their three sons operate the farm and winery. Their eldest, Landon, is the vineyard and orchard manager and Pierce and Carter help whenever they’re home from James Madison University.

Back row: Danielle M. Strother, Philip C. Strother, Carter D. Strother, Landon C. Strother, P. Pierce Strother Front row: C. Edward Strother, Kathleen D. Strother

Warrenton Dermatology and Skin Therapy Center

Dr. Juan-Carlos Caballero

Last time we caught up with Warrenton Dermatology and Skin Therapy Center, they were anticipating the addition of a surgery center in their building. This they have accomplished. “We are excited that the Warrenton Dermatology Skin Surgery Center is open and currently providing Mohs surgeries,” said owner Dr. JuanCarlos Caballero.

“Opening and growing our Mohs surgical unit in Warrenton ensures that patients in Fauquier and surrounding counties have local access to the best surgical care for complex skin cancers of the head and neck,” Dr. Caballero said.

Many of their patients come in for skin cancer diagnosis, treatment, and management. Previously, those patients were referred to Mohs centers in Northern Virginia. “They now have the option to have that service close to home,

within the same practice they know and trust,” Dr. Caballero said.

His team of 22 has been providing general adult and pediatric dermatology services since Dr. Caballero took over the practice in 2008.

Cosmetic offerings include CoolSculpting, Botox, facials, chemical peels, microneedling, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for hair loss, Fraxel and BBL laser skin rejuvenation, and hair reduction services.

Their services include dermatologic surgery, treatment for acne, psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, and other skin disorders, and skin cancer detection and treatment.

“We’re proud of expanding Warrenton Dermatology to become the premier dermatology practice in Fauquier County by providing board-certified providers and cutting-edge technology in both cosmetic and medical services to our community,”

he said, adding that they also offer telehealth appointments and interest-free financing options.

Dr. Caballero is concerned with the growing use of under-qualified and noncredentialed providers in the industry, likely heightened by the prevalence of social media and tik-tok where consumers may be deceived by filtered photos and altered videos.

“There is no substitute for boardcertified providers with years of education in medical school and advanced specialty training, and patients will not find the same level of expertise and safety when receiving medical and cosmetic dermatology services at a salon or spa,” he explained.

No matter what brings you in — whether it’s cosmetic or medical — Dr. Caballero and his colleagues are laser-focused on full-body skin care with a personalized integrative approach.