About Ethel
Ethel Rodgers is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and nonjudgmental. Her tone is straightforward and encouraging for those nervous about reaching out.
She helps people work through anxiety, effects of trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem in clear, step-by-step conversations. Career strain and major life changes are also common topics she addresses.
Background and approach
Additional areas of attention include forgiveness, guilt and shame, and building self-love. In sessions she strives to build an open environment where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without fear of judgment. Conversations are focused on practical tools and small changes that can reduce day-to-day stress.
She emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more confident. With five years of professional experience, Ethel draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor work to each person’s needs. She explains options and works together with clients to choose approaches that match their goals.
Progress is approached incrementally, with regular check-ins on what is helping. People who reach out typically schedule video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their life. Ethel welcomes questions about how sessions run and what to expect at the first meeting.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Two common approaches she uses are practical skills-based work and trauma-focused conversation. Skills-based work teaches concrete techniques for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing methods, grounding exercises, and simple behavioral changes. This helps people handle day-to-day symptoms and feel more in control. Trauma-focused conversation involves carefully talking through painful memories and their current effects to reduce their power over daily life and improve coping.She sees choosing an approach as a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and check in regularly to adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement is an issue, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, handle a short mood check, or continue work when travel or schedule changes occur.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Self-love
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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