About Araby
Araby Boykin is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with adults facing mood and personality challenges and supports those coping with life transitions, grief, and relationship or parenting strains. Her approach emphasizes using each person's strengths to move forward.
She keeps sessions practical and goal-focused. She draws from client-centered methods to listen and understand what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to build emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Araby brings five years of clinical experience in North Carolina to her work. She has worked with people facing PTSD, psychotic disorders, and co-occurring conditions, and she tailors methods to the situation rather than relying on a single technique.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Conversations in sessions tend to focus on concrete steps - skills to manage anxiety, strategies to reduce impulsive behavior, and exercises to improve communication. She also incorporates mindfulness practices for grounding and Motivational Interviewing when change feels daunting.
People who come to Araby can expect straightforward, compassionate care from a clinician who values practical coping tools and real-world progress. She offers help for a wide range of concerns, including addictions, anger, intimacy challenges, and postpartum depression.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on the client’s own strengths. In online sessions this means the therapist creates space to hear what matters and tailors conversations to each person's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down thoughts, feelings, and behaviors into clear steps and practical exercises. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking patterns and works well through video or phone sessions where homework and skill practice can be assigned.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. This means plans can change over time as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to use the format that best supports skill practice and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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