About Yaren
Yaren Ravel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and low self-esteem. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings seven years of practical experience to sessions. Yaren aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk openly about what matters to them.
Her sessions focus on clear, manageable steps rather than long lectures. She helps people untangle painful memories, reduce panic and anxiety, and rebuild confidence.
Background and approach
Conversations often include practical coping strategies and ways to handle difficult moments as they come. Yaren also addresses issues around attachment, abandonment, and caregiver stress. She supports people dealing with communication problems, control issues, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce.
Working through guilt, shame, and forgiveness is part of her approach when those topics come up. Many clients bring concerns about isolation, purpose, or money-related stress. Yaren offers straightforward ways to improve day-to-day functioning and to reconnect with personal values.
She encourages small changes that add up over time. Sessions can be carried out in English or Spanish for people in and beyond New York. Yaren helps clients decide what to focus on first and how to pace the work so it feels doable.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Yaren uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills you can practice between sessions. One common approach emphasizes teaching concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing and grounding strategies, short behavioral steps, and ways to interrupt panic cycles. These methods help when worry or sudden fear gets in the way of daily life.Another approach centers on working through trauma and attachment wounds by carefully revisiting painful memories and improving emotional regulation. That work aims to reduce the intensity of upsetting memories and to strengthen responses to triggers. It often pairs emotional processing with practical tools for calming down in the moment.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which techniques match the client's goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions begin with discussion and a simple plan that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, to use shorter formats when needed, and to choose the communication style that feels most comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish