About Ariel
Ariel Rock is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and the emotional fallout from trauma. She works with clients on parenting strain, relationship problems, grief, addiction concerns, and challenges like low self-esteem and mood instability. Ariel practices in New York and brings eight years of clinical experience to each session.
Her background includes work in residential treatment, acute inpatient settings, and geriatric care, along with independent practice.
Background and approach
That variety means she has experience with traumatic brain injury recovery and complex medical-psychological needs. She has supported people dealing with eating concerns, body image struggles, and identity development. Ariel uses straightforward, practical methods in conversation and skill practice.
She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance-focused strategies, and attachment-based ideas to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding. Sessions often include mindfulness and grounding skills to manage strong emotions. She tailors the pace and plan to each person's needs, focusing on concrete goals and skills that can be used between meetings.
Ariel emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental stance while people work through difficult material. She aims to empower clients to make changes that fit their life. People who want a therapist who blends skill-building with supportive listening may find her approach practical.
Ariel helps clients take the initial steps toward coping better, improving relationships, and finding more stability in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ariel commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings, choose what matters most, and take action toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with depression, anxiety, and coping skills.She approaches therapy collaboratively, inviting clients to test different tools and find what fits. The therapist and client work together to set goals, try strategies in real life, and adjust plans based on what helps. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process rather than a one-time decision.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be a good shorter check-in or when camera use is difficult, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill reminders. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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