About Felicia
Felicia Bates is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of professional experience. She practices in Indiana and brings steady support to people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. Felicia focuses on practical steps and clear conversation to help people build confidence and cope with difficult feelings.
She works with people dealing with family conflict, trauma and abuse, and relationship problems. Her background also includes helping those facing parenting stress, caregiver burden, and illness-related challenges.
Background and approach
She offers guidance around career concerns, anger, and feelings of emptiness or low self-esteem. Felicia uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice patterns of thinking and behavior.
She also uses client-centered listening and mindfulness practices to calm the mind and focus on what matters most. Sessions emphasize practical skills and real-world application. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, goal-setting, and take-home tools to try between meetings.
The therapist adapts the pace and techniques to match each person’s needs and circumstances. People who value respectful, compassionate care will find a steady presence in her work. She encourages small steps and celebrates progress along the way.
Signing up starts with a short questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the client.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Felicia often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice what matters and change unhelpful thinking patterns. ACT focuses on values and taking action toward a meaningful life even when difficult feelings are present. CBT helps identify thought and behavior patterns that keep stress and anxiety active, and replaces them with more helpful habits.She also draws on client-centered listening to create a respectful space where the person’s goals guide the work. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk with the client about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on how they feel and what works best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Maine, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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