About Arkava
Arkava Smith is a licensed mental health counselor with 16 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with clients who are coping with addiction, trauma, depression, and related concerns. Her approach centers on listening first and creating a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be voiced.
She focuses on clear, practical steps that fit into everyday life. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Arkava also uses skill-building tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. Her style is warm and direct. She aims to make therapy feel like a collaborative conversation rather than a lecture.
Clients leave with concrete strategies to try between sessions and a plan for tracking progress. Over the years she has supported people dealing with relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, and major life transitions. She has experience addressing issues tied to identity, multicultural concerns, and prejudice or discrimination.
Arkava practices in Delaware as an LPMHC, which stands for Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor. She meets clients where they are and helps them build skills for the challenges they face.
How Arkava’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and partnership; the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people clarify what matters to them and what they want to change. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, compassionate space to process emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing small changes. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with life changes because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, brings skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for distress tolerance and emotion regulation that can be useful for anger, self-esteem struggles, and interpersonal difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Arkava will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. Together they set small, achievable steps and adjust plans based on what works.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and simpler when video is impractical. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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