About Ariel
Ariel Rock is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or major life changes. Ariel focuses on practical skills that people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
She draws on eight years of experience across settings such as residential treatment, acute inpatient care, geriatric care, traumatic brain injury services, and independent practice. That range means she has worked with many kinds of struggles, from self-harm and bipolar mood shifts to addiction and body image concerns.
Background and approach
Ariel uses straightforward, skills-focused approaches. She mixes methods to fit each person’s needs, and she works with issues like trauma, parenting strain, relationship troubles, and grief. Sessions emphasize grounding strategies, mindfulness, and building everyday coping skills.
She describes her role as supportive and collaborative. Clients can expect a respectful, sensitive tone and a plan tailored to their goals. Ariel aims to help people build confidence, manage symptoms, and make steady changes they can notice in daily life.
Practical matters are part of the work. Ariel can guide skill development for anger management, attention challenges, obsessive behaviors, and motivation. She also offers help with identity development, commitment concerns, and co-occurring conditions where several problems interact.
How Ariel’s Approaches Work Online
Ariel commonly draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage anxiety and stress. ACT focuses on clarifying values and accepting difficult thoughts so clients can move toward meaningful actions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical skills to change behaviors and reduce distress.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Ariel will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then recommend techniques or a mix of methods that fit. The plan can change as needs shift, and she emphasizes working together to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text messages provide brief touchpoints, homework support, and easier access between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, travel days, or busy family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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