About Ariel
Ariel Susman is a licensed mental health counselor who works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges such as addiction and ADHD. She practices in New Jersey and brings four years of professional counseling experience. Ariel aims to make the first step feel a little easier for people who are nervous about starting therapy.
Ariel focuses on clear, practical conversation. She listens for what is getting in the way of daily life and helps people build simple steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to the individual and their goals instead of a one-size-fits-all plan. Her work includes helping people manage mood disorders like bipolar and depressive symptoms, cope with trauma and abuse, and address intimacy or relationship struggles. She also supports clients who are dealing with family-of-origin issues, parenting stress, sleep or eating concerns, and career-related decisions.
Ariel emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her sessions. She helps people sort through difficult feelings like shame, guilt, loneliness, or anger and develop more helpful ways of coping. Practical skills and small behavior changes are part of how she helps clients move forward.
People who choose Ariel can expect a collaborative process where goals are revisited and adjusted as progress happens. She holds credentials as an LPC and as an LMHC, and she offers services in English. Ariel also sees international clients and provides several online session formats to fit different needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Ariel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches practical tools for managing anxiety, mood swings, and cravings; this helps when daily routines feel overwhelming or symptoms interfere with work and relationships. Another approach emphasizes trauma-informed care, which focuses on pacing conversations, recognizing how past hurt shapes current behavior, and introducing gradual strategies to reduce reactivity.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Ariel will help identify what matters most to the client, try approaches that match their needs, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer. Clients set goals and shape the pace of work together with the therapist.
Online therapy with Ariel is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can be used for brief updates or when scheduling makes real-time sessions difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, travel, or busy family days while keeping the focus on consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English