About Rima
Rima Soueidan is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 23 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction, or big life changes. She also supports those facing relationship strain, social anxiety, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens closely, asks clear questions, and helps clients set small, practical goals they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Rima uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns, practice present-moment skills, and shape therapy around each person’s values and priorities. She also borrows narrative and solution-focused techniques to reframe difficult stories and build steps toward change.
She brings experience working across cultural and linguistic backgrounds and offers sessions in English and Arabic. Her Michigan license informs how she practices with people in that state. Many clients come for help with anxiety, codependency, substance concerns, trauma recovery, or relationship challenges.
Rima aims to create a calm space where people can understand themselves better, test new ways of coping, and move toward more satisfying day-to-day life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and priorities, offering a nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them find their own solutions. This approach is useful for people coping with anxiety, relationship strain, or a need for emotional support.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and impulsive habits. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness; it often helps with stress, rumination, and managing strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about their concerns, try techniques that fit the person’s needs, and adjust the plan as progress or challenges appear. Clients and therapist decide together which methods feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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