Ariel Phelps

Ariel Phelps, LPC, LCMHC, is a clinician licensed in North Carolina and Virginia with six years of professional experience. She supports people facing family conflicts, parenting challenges, self esteem and confidence concerns, depression, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, grief, anger, career questions, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include avoidant and dependent personality patterns, fertility and postpartum issues, infidelity and jealousy, multicultural concerns, personality disorders, process addictions, sexual assault and abuse, sex addiction, self-harm, and young adult issues.

Ariel integrates client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to tailor conversations and treatment plans to each person. Her approach combines practical strategies for changing thoughts and behaviors, skills training for managing intense emotions, and a collaborative, respectful stance that guides the therapeutic process. She acknowledges that beginning therapy can require courage and affirms those who take that first step toward support and change.