About Arianna
Arianna Rivera is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on seven years of practice to help people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and self-esteem concerns. She is LCSW, CSW licensed in Colorado and works with people who are navigating life changes or grappling with issues related to LGBT identity. Arianna aims to make the first step toward therapy feel manageable and supported.
She focuses on clear, practical conversations. Sessions often involve talking through current worries, identifying small changes that can help, and practicing ways to cope with distressing symptoms.
Background and approach
Arianna encourages straightforward goals that fit into daily life and can be revised as needs change. Her background includes several years helping people manage caregiving strain, relationship communication problems, and body image concerns. She also has experience addressing attachment and abandonment themes and difficulties related to avoidant or dependent personality patterns.
This experience informs how she listens for patterns that keep people stuck. Arianna keeps sessions direct and collaborative. She helps people set short-term steps to reduce intense feelings and build skills for longer-term change.
She works with whatever pace each person needs and adjusts approaches as they progress. Therapy with Arianna can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is set once a matching process is completed.
Approaches that guide online care
Arianna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on concrete change and coping skills. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. This helps people notice what makes a situation harder and try new responses that feel manageable. Another approach centers on building practical coping skills for stress and life transitions, such as pacing tasks, improving sleep routines, and practicing short grounding exercises to reduce overwhelming feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Arianna will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. She checks in regularly and adapts techniques as progress is made so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers a range of session formats that support flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation when more connection is wanted. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, moment-to-moment coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit care into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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