About Ferial
Ferial Youkhanna, LMSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions and relationship struggles. She supports those coping with trauma, panic, mood challenges like bipolar, and attention differences such as ADHD. Her tone is practical and direct to make it easier for someone worried to reach out.
Ferial builds sessions around what each person needs that week. She listens first and then suggests simple, concrete steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions mix talking, skill practice, and gentle tracking of progress so goals stay clear and manageable. Her work draws on cognitive approaches and emotion-focused methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and repair important connections in relationships. Attachment-based ideas are used when relationship patterns and past hurts affect current life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients focus on values and actionable steps even when feelings are hard to change. Ferial has 24 years of clinical experience and holds a Michigan Licensed Master Social Worker credential. Her background includes helping people with addiction concerns, compulsive behaviors, grief and bereavement, trauma recovery, and long-term mood conditions.
She brings experience supporting people through career stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and difficult life transitions. Sessions are available in English and Arabic. She offers a straightforward, supportive approach for people who want clear tools and steady coaching while they work toward calmer days and stronger relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Ferial often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are intense. ACT focuses on building workable habits and practicing actions that match a person’s goals.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand recurring interaction styles and learn new ways to connect and repair bonds in important relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try approaches that fit the client’s needs. Techniques can be adapted over time based on what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video allows face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let clients keep momentum between sessions and share thoughts in writing when that feels easier.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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