About Ferial
Ferial Youkhanna is a licensed master social worker with 24 years of clinical experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She speaks English and Arabic and draws on practical therapies to help clients find clearer ways to cope. Her style is direct and supportive while focusing on what can change now.
She uses approaches that help people notice thoughts and choices, improve connections, and build skills for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include plain talk, skill practice, and ways to spot unhelpful patterns. The goal is to make small changes that add up over time. Ferial has worked with people facing trauma, grief, panic attacks, compulsive behaviors, and serious mood challenges.
She also supports those managing caregiving stress, chronic illness, work pressures, and major life transitions. Her work covers intimacy and relationship concerns, communication problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. In sessions she blends evidence-based tools with a client-centered approach.
That means she listens first, then offers techniques such as behavioral experiments, values-based actions, and ways to strengthen emotional bonds. Clients get concrete homework and short-term strategies when needed. Her Michigan practice focuses on helping people build resilience and steady routines.
She explains options clearly and tailors plans to each person’s life. Ferial aims to make therapy a practical part of daily coping rather than a distant ideal.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice worrying thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on building small, meaningful steps so anxiety and avoidance do not drive daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers straightforward exercises to reduce panic, change patterns, and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns and emotional bonds to improve communication and closeness when relationships are a source of stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out techniques, and adapt methods based on what helps most. Sessions are collaborative so clients and the therapist decide which tools to keep using over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a session fits a break at work. Messaging or live chat can work for quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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