About Arras
Arras Khaledi is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and life transitions. He focuses on clear, practical steps so clients can feel steadier and more in control. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what matters most right now.
Arras draws on several common therapy methods to match the client's needs. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
He also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward their values. People meet Arras to tackle many issues, including depression, grief, addictions, sleep or eating struggles, and parenting pressures. He pays attention to how past attachment experiences and abandonment concerns shape current relationships.
He also supports coping with trauma, chronic stress, and major life changes. Sessions aim to build practical skills and clearer choices. Arras encourages small experiments between sessions so progress is measurable.
He explains ideas in plain language and checks in often to make sure the plan fits each person's life. With five years of clinical experience, Arras practices in Texas and conducts work in English. He frames therapy as a collaborative process and focuses on steady, realistic steps toward better day-to-day functioning.
Therapy approaches and online care
Arras often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice and accept difficult emotions while taking steps that align with their values. These approaches are practical and fit many everyday concerns, from stress and sleep problems to relationship worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will discuss options with each person and choose techniques together based on goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. This collaborative process allows adjustments as needs change over time.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistent work on anxiety, relationships, and life changes while fitting therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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