About Ariel
Ariel Phelps uses a client-centered approach to guide people through family and parenting struggles, self-esteem challenges, and life transitions. She combines talk-based work with practical skills so people leave sessions with clearer next steps. Ariel is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and she practices with a calm, respectful manner.
With six years of experience, Ariel has supported people facing depression, anxiety, stress, grief, and anger.
How Ariel works
She also addresses career concerns and relationship problems, including issues like infidelity and jealousy. Her work includes supporting those coping with postpartum depression, fertility challenges, and young adult life changes. Ariel draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when people need help managing intense emotions and building distress tolerance. Client-Centered Therapy is woven through her work so sessions focus on each person’s priorities. She has experience with personality-related concerns such as avoidant and dependent personality features and broader personality disorder issues.
Ariel also supports people dealing with process addictions and sex-related concerns, and she can talk with survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Ariel works in North Carolina and conducts sessions in English. She aims to tailor the conversations and any treatment plan to each person’s needs.
The first step is often a short conversation to set goals and find practical strategies that fit day-to-day life.
Ariel lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Ariel works with
The areas below are the ones Ariel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ariel uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a trusting conversation where the person’s goals lead the work. This approach focuses on listening, validating experience, and shaping sessions around what matters most in daily life.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when practical steps are needed to change how someone thinks and acts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotions feel overwhelming. DBT skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to communicate under pressure.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. That discussion guides whether sessions lean more toward CBT exercises, DBT skills practice, or a client-centered conversation.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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