About Nelly
Dr. Nelly Gregorian-DeLeon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience. She practices in North Carolina and brings a warm, empathic style to conversations about stress, loss, or relationship strain.
Dr. Gregorian-DeLeon speaks English, Armenian, and Persian and draws on varied therapy methods to meet individual needs. Her approach is practical and person-focused.
She listens first, then helps people name the problem and plan small changes.
How Nelly works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. She aims to make the work feel relevant to everyday life. She combines several therapeutic perspectives depending on what a person needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-Centered Therapy creates space for acceptance and self-exploration. Jungian and existential ideas inform deeper questions about meaning and identity when those issues arise.
Dr. Gregorian-DeLeon has extensive experience with trauma, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, and with the complex feelings those experiences leave behind. She also supports people facing grief, parenting challenges, career transitions, or burnout.
Her work includes coaching-style conversations for practical next steps. People who come to her can expect straightforward language and clear goals. She honors each person’s story and cultural background.
Therapy is shaped to the problem at hand and to the client’s pace and values.
Nelly lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Nelly works with
The areas below are the ones Nelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Armenian, Persian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a trusting space where the therapist listens closely and follows the person’s lead; this helps when someone needs acceptance and a place to make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety or low mood. Existential Therapy invites questions about meaning, values, and direction when life changes or losses prompt bigger life decisions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try techniques that match those needs. That collaborative process can involve adjusting methods as therapy unfolds so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the formats that feel most comfortable.
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