About Arthur
Arthur Hastings is a licensed mental health counselor with 46 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and ADHD. He also offers support around relationship and intimacy concerns and issues related to sexual orientation and identity.
He began his work in a VA hospital psychiatric unit at 18 and spent four decades at a local community mental health center. After retiring from that role in 2018 he continued in independent practice and shifted more of his work to telehealth during the pandemic.
Background and approach
Arthur uses familiar, practical approaches in sessions. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action even when feelings are difficult.
Sessions are conversation-driven and goal-focused. He listens for patterns from a person's history and helps develop simple, realistic strategies to manage symptoms and daily challenges. Work may include coping plans, problem-solving, and skill practice between sessions.
People often come for trauma, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, or challenges linked to ADHD and attention. Arthur brings decades of steady practice and a straightforward style meant to reduce overwhelm and build usable skills.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Arthur often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice different responses; this approach works well for anxiety, depression, and many daily stressors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another frequent tool he uses, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Attachment-Based Therapy informs his work on relationship and intimacy concerns by looking at how early bonds shape present ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the early process. He discusses goals and preferences with each person and together they decide which methods to prioritize. This collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what someone needs and what feels manageable for them.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and conversational flow, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins or brief work between meetings, and text messaging can be useful for short updates or flexible scheduling. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 46 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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