About Ariel
Ariel Rock is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more capable. Ariel writes straightforward goals with each person and adjusts the plan as life changes.
She brings eight years of clinical experience from settings such as residential treatment, acute inpatient care, geriatric services, and independent practice.
How Ariel works
That range informs how she approaches complex problems like mood disorders, trauma, and difficult behavior patterns. Her work includes attention to addiction, bipolar disorder, eating and body image concerns, and self-harm coping strategies. Ariel uses a mix of approaches that fit the person rather than a single method.
She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies for thinking and behavior change, dialectical skills for emotion regulation, and attachment-focused ideas to understand relationship patterns. She also incorporates mindfulness and grounding techniques into sessions. She supports people dealing with parenting stress, family conflict, career transitions, grief, and identity-related issues.
Additional focus areas include abandonment and attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges related to neurodiversity and personality differences. Conversations are tailored to each client’s needs and paced to match readiness for change. Ariel emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical skill-building.
She aims to help people feel more confident in daily life and better able to manage hard moments.
Ariel lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps toward values-based action. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and when someone feels stuck and wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on changing thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. It can be helpful for depression, anxiety, coping skills, and breaking unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches specific emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills and is useful when strong emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ariel will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt techniques based on their goals, needs, and what feels realistic for them. The plan can change over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when writing helps people process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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