About Aricksha
Aricksha Wilshire is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She brings four years of clinical experience to short-term and ongoing care. Aricksha speaks English and Spanish and offers flexible scheduling in the afternoons and evenings.
Her style blends straightforward support with practical tools. Sessions aim to help people name what feels overwhelming and find small, doable steps to feel steadier.
Background and approach
She balances emotional processing with skill-building so clients leave with clearer options for day-to-day coping. Aricksha centers cultural identity and lived experience in conversations about stress and burnout. She pays attention to how community expectations and generational patterns influence choices and feelings.
That perspective often guides goal-setting and treatment ideas. People who want a warm, honest atmosphere tend to do well with her. She uses direct feedback, active listening, and collaborative planning so clients can try new ways of responding to anxiety and relationship tension.
Sessions move at a practical pace, with time for reflection and action. In addition to anxiety and depression, she addresses concerns like panic attacks, social anxiety, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, workplace strain, and immigration-related issues. Her approach aims to help people rebuild confidence, strengthen communication, and navigate change with clearer direction.
Approach-driven care available online
Aricksha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. One common approach focuses on learning practical coping skills to reduce intense worry and panic; this involves practicing breathing and grounding exercises, testing small behavioral changes, and planning stepwise exposures to feared situations. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying recurring interaction styles, trying new ways of speaking and listening, and setting clearer personal boundaries to reduce conflict and stress.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Aricksha collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, culture, and daily life. She reviews options together and adjusts strategies based on what feels most helpful and doable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and body language, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for real-time typed check-ins, and messaging allows short updates between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule appointments in afternoons and evenings and to keep therapy consistent despite busy calendars.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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