About Ariel
Ariel Smith is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She focuses on restoring self-esteem, easing social anxiety, and supporting those coping with family tensions or feelings of isolation. Ariel uses a compassionate, faith-informed outlook alongside evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
Sessions emphasize clear communication, practical coping skills, and steps for rebuilding confidence. She often helps clients untangle issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, and shame so they can move forward with greater clarity.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to body image, workplace stress, and the hard feelings that come with forgiveness or guilt. Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented, with time spent on small changes that add up. Clients learn tools to manage impulses and to reconnect with what matters to them.
Ariel holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential - LPC - and practices in Georgia. She brings four years of clinical experience to her meetings and blends therapeutic methods with the values a client chooses to bring into the room. People meet with Ariel by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Those formats let sessions fit around busy days and different life rhythms. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
Approaches that meet you where you are
Ariel draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach emphasizes learning specific coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, grounding exercises, and step-by-step plans to face feared situations. These tools aim to reduce overwhelm and help with daily functioning.Another approach centers on exploring attachment and relational patterns to improve communication and reduce isolation. This work looks at how past relationships shape current reactions and teaches clearer ways to ask for needs and set boundaries, which can ease feelings of abandonment or shame.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ariel will work collaboratively to identify goals and try methods that fit a client's needs and values, including any faith-informed preferences. Together they adjust pace and tools until the plan feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy with Ariel offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more direct interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, shorter reflections between sessions, or ongoing accountability without a full session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or school routines while keeping focus on progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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