About Arielle
Arielle Griffin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices from a client-centered perspective. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings six years of clinical experience to her work in Virginia. Arielle focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
Arielle uses practical methods that help people name problems and take small steps toward change. She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches, plus mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques.
How Arielle works
Sessions focus on skills, clear goals, and what feels doable for each person. She has worked in outpatient medical clinics and hospital settings, and has experience with partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs. That experience informs how she supports people through grief, trauma, and major life changes.
Arielle also helps with workplace stress, caregiver strain, and challenges tied to adoption and foster care. In sessions she emphasizes listening, collaboration, and practical tools for day-to-day life. She helps clients work through communication and control issues, commitment questions, and building self-esteem.
Treatment plans are shaped around each person’s goals and pace. Outside of clinical work she enjoys reading, traveling, pilates, and mindfulness practice. Her approach aims to be welcoming and steady, focused on helping people find clearer thinking and better coping strategies.
Arielle lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Arielle works with
The areas below are the ones Arielle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How Arielle’s approaches work online
Arielle uses client-centered work to focus sessions on each person’s priorities and strengths. This approach means sessions begin with the client’s concerns, and the therapist listens closely to set goals and next steps together.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. CBT breaks concerns down into concrete patterns and teaches practical tools for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and changing unhelpful habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used to build coping skills like emotional regulation and distress tolerance. These skills are useful for managing intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and building steadier day-to-day routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Clients and the therapist decide together what techniques to try and how to adapt them over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during longer sessions, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing work between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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