About April
April Mullen is a Washington licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 13 years of professional experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, self-esteem struggles, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and LGBT-related issues. April also works with trauma and compassion fatigue.
She writes plainly and listens first to understand each person's priorities. Her sessions focus on what matters most to the client. April tailors conversation and goals to the situation in front of her.
Background and approach
She aims to build straightforward coping skills and clearer communication in everyday life. Practical steps are blended with attention to feelings and attachment patterns. April draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to make space for honest emotion.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT strategies to manage strong emotions. Emotionally-focused work supports deeper relationship and intimacy concerns. Her background includes a range of settings over more than a decade, helping people through grief, life changes, and midlife transitions.
She has worked with people facing abandonment, codependency, and gender dysphoria issues. April also supports people navigating alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or messaging.
April describes the first sessions as a chance to set goals and decide on the best approach together. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape how people trust and connect. Online sessions can help identify patterns in bonding, abandonment concerns, and attachment issues so clients can try new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and choices, with the therapist following the client's lead to build self-understanding and confidence. This approach supports work on self-esteem, gender dysphoria concerns, and life purpose by prioritizing the client's goals and pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. April collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean blending attachment-focused conversations with skill-based cognitive techniques or shifting toward emotion-focused work for relationship concerns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls make it easier to read facial cues and have deeper conversations, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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