About Ariel
Ariel Phelps is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with six years of experience. She works from North Carolina and offers straightforward, respectful support for people facing anxiety and related concerns. Ariel focuses on practical conversations that help people manage stress, depression, and relationship strain.
She also helps with family and parenting challenges, self-esteem, grief, anger, and career transitions. Sessions are shaped to each person’s situation and goals.
Background and approach
Her style blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior approaches. That means Ariel listens first, then suggests doable strategies to change unhelpful thinking, reduce strong emotions, and build skills for daily life. She helps people test small changes and notice what works.
Clients can expect a calm, respectful space where their concerns are treated seriously. Ariel tailors the pace and focus of sessions to match what each person needs in the moment. She encourages realistic steps that fit into busy lives.
Her experience includes supporting people dealing with personality concerns, postpartum depression, process addictions, sexual trauma, fertility stress, and complicated feelings like jealousy or shame. Ariel aims for clear goals and measurable progress so people can see improvement over time.
Therapeutic tools and flexible online care
Ariel uses client-centered therapy to make sure the conversation starts with a person’s priorities. That approach focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy adds practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for strong feelings and relationship conflicts.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ariel will work with each person to decide which combination of listening, skills training, and practical steps fits their goals and preferences. The plan can shift as progress is made or needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text can suit quick check-ins, skill practice, or days when typing feels simpler than a full session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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