About April
April Pomerlyan is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with eight years of experience. She approaches counseling as a collaboration, believing the client knows their life best while she brings clinical skills to the conversation. April aims to create a warm, professional space where people feel heard and respected.
Early sessions focus on getting to know the person and their priorities. She often uses strength-based methods and invites clients to bring their values into the work.
Background and approach
This helps shape goals that feel meaningful and realistic. April draws from several evidence-informed frameworks to fit each person's needs. She commonly uses client-centered techniques to reflect feelings and make sense of experiences.
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and shift thought patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood. Her practice is flexible about methods, mixing in other approaches when they seem useful. Sessions tend to be straightforward and practical, with an emphasis on building skills people can use outside of therapy.
April explains suggested techniques and answers questions so clients understand the steps she recommends. People come to her for stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and parenting concerns, and many other challenges. She is willing to discuss how her ways of working might match a person’s situation and goals.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
April often uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in her sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on reflecting feelings and helping people make sense of their experience, which can feel supportive in an online conversation. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thought patterns and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which adapts well to exercises done between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process and April treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss what feels most useful, try strategies for a few sessions, and adjust the plan based on a person’s goals and feedback. That shared decision-making helps match methods to needs and preferences.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text messaging let people check in more frequently, handle brief coaching, or do short skill-building between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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