About Neal
Neal Reiersen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. He combines practical skills with reflective work so clients can make steady changes. Neal is based in Arizona and works with adults facing a range of concerns.
Neal draws on approaches that emphasize acceptance, values, and clear thinking. He helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward coping skills alongside deeper reflection about meaning and purpose. He has roughly ten years of experience in mental health settings. That time includes supporting people through trauma, mood symptoms, and substance-related problems.
Neal pays attention to how past family experiences show up now and to patterns like codependency or attachment issues. In sessions Neal keeps the tone encouraging and supportive. He invites self-reflection and helps clients build self-acceptance while also learning new habits.
Work can include addressing anger, grief, parenting challenges, or struggles with self-esteem and relationships. Neal uses evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mixed with a client-centered and existential outlook. He prefers a collaborative process where goals are practical and realistic.
Small steps and steady practice are central to how he helps people move forward.
How Neal’s methods translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and take actions that matter to them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and teaches concrete skills for managing mood and behavior; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client’s lead and supports self-discovery and growth.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Neal will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That way the work stays practical and aimed at things the client wants to change.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let conversations feel most like in-person work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick, written ways to process between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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