About April
April Mullen is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor with 13 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on LGBT-related concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue. April offers a calm, respectful presence to help people take a first step toward change.
She keeps conversations simple and practical. Sessions are shaped around what a person most needs that week. April listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals.
How April works
She uses tools drawn from several evidence-based approaches to help people feel steadier and more in control. April often helps people unpack attachment patterns and how those affect relationships. She also works with practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication.
For sexual diversity topics she provides a nonjudgmental space to talk about kink, BDSM, and gender concerns. Her background includes supporting people through grief, hospice and end-of-life issues, and stressful life transitions such as divorce and midlife change. She also helps with abandonment, codependency, and isolation or loneliness.
April adapts pace and focus so sessions match each person’s goals. People who choose her can expect a collaborative approach that mixes gentle reflection with concrete coping skills. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical strategies people can use between sessions.
April aims to empower people to make clearer choices and feel more confident in daily life.
April lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
What April works with
The areas below are the ones April selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online emotional work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. April uses this to help people recognize patterns that influence trust, closeness, and reactions in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center of sessions. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offers empathic listening, and helps clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It introduces simple experiments and skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. April will discuss options and try methods that match a person’s goals, comfort level, and schedule. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so the work stays useful and focused on what matters most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick reflections, check-ins between sessions, or when typing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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