About Nelly
Dr. Nelly Gregorian-DeLeon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience. She works from North Carolina and offers care in English, Armenian, and Persian.
She focuses on common struggles such as anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and relationship concerns. She approaches therapy in a warm, nonjudgmental way and aims to honor each person's story. Sessions are conversational and practical.
She listens closely and helps people build skills to manage emotions and everyday problems.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with survivors and perpetrators of domestic and sexual abuse, and with people facing high-conflict relationships. That experience shapes how she helps clients handle trauma-related reactions and safety concerns. Dr.
Gregorian-DeLeon draws from several approaches to match the moment - including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and existential ideas. She also uses Jungian and hypnotherapy elements when those fit a person's needs and preferences. Many people come to her for help with parenting stress, career decisions, anger, self-esteem, and coping with big life changes.
She also supports those dealing with abandonment, family-of-origin issues, and caregiver strain. Her style mixes listening with practical tools for change. People who prefer a culturally aware, narrative-informed approach may find her helpful.
She invites clients to collaborate on goals and to try strategies that feel useful in daily life.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Dr. Gregorian-DeLeon uses client-centered methods that focus on listening and responding to each person's unique story, helping people feel heard and understood while they decide what to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and to teach concrete skills for managing anxiety, stress, and mood. She also draws on existential ideas that invite clients to reflect on meaning, values, and life choices when facing big transitions or grief.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and the issues at hand, and then suggest techniques that match those needs. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can serve as shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Connecticut, North Carolina
- Languages
- English, Armenian, Persian
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