About Ariel
Ariel Rock is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings eight years of clinical experience and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for those feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Ariel uses clear, down-to-earth language in sessions.
She listens first, then helps clients build coping skills they can use between appointments. She often focuses on skill development for emotion regulation, grounding, and motivation so progress feels tangible.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in residential treatment, acute inpatient care, geriatric care, and with people recovering from traumatic brain injury. That range of settings shaped a flexible practice that adapts to different needs and life stages. Ariel has supported people facing trauma, self-harm, bipolar disorder, addictions, and eating or body image concerns.
She draws from several therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance-based ideas, and emotion-focused strategies. Sessions are collaborative - Ariel works with each person to shape goals and choose tools that fit their life. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical steps.
Ariel offers sessions in English from New York and provides multiple online formats to make care more convenient. If you want straightforward help building skills for daily life, she can work with you to find a plan that fits your schedule and needs.
How Ariel’s approaches translate to online care
Ariel commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and attachment-based ideas. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change mood and functioning. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) teaches skills for accepting difficult feelings while taking value-driven action toward meaningful goals. Attachment-based work looks at relationship patterns and helps people understand how past connections shape current ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ariel collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. That might mean blending techniques - practicing behavioral experiments one week and working on emotion regulation skills the next - so treatment fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, follow up after a difficult moment, and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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