About Felicia
Felicia Bates is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She practices in Indiana and brings a calm, respectful approach to conversations about hard topics. She focuses on helping people find practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes.
Felicia works with people dealing with family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, and challenges to self-esteem. She also supports clients facing career strain, compassion fatigue, parenting strain, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar conditions.
How Felicia works
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and the effects of illness or loss. Her style is straightforward and empathetic. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs and goals rather than following a fixed script.
She uses a mix of approaches to help people learn skills, shift unhelpful thinking, and build actions that match their values. Felicia combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and mindfulness practices to reduce distress and increase meaningful activity. She also uses client-centered rapport building and dialectical behavior techniques when emotional regulation is a focus.
This blend aims to help people take practical next steps between sessions. She welcomes questions about how therapy could fit into a busy life. The first steps are simple and often involve deciding what matters most and setting small, doable goals.
Over time she helps people put those goals into practice and track what changes are actually happening.
Felicia lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Felicia works with
The areas below are the ones Felicia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking action toward them even when thoughts or feelings are uncomfortable. It is useful for people wrestling with life changes, grief, or low motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Felicia will discuss different methods and tailor choices based on each person's goals and preferences. The plan can change over time as needs shift and progress is observed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or maintaining progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep up with regular practice.
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A practical next step
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