About Ariel
Ariel Rock is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, mood shifts, and challenges with self-esteem. Ariel focuses on practical steps clients can use right away to feel steadier and more capable.
She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, attachment-based perspectives, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions center on clear goals, skill-building, and real-life practice. Ariel uses straightforward language and plans that fit daily routines. Her background includes work in residential treatment, acute inpatient settings, geriatric care, traumatic brain injury programs, and independent practice.
That range informs how she adapts interventions for different life situations. She aims to meet clients where they are and move at a manageable pace. Ariel respects each person’s identity and experiences and tailors conversations and plans accordingly.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time and fees vary with location and therapist availability. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Ariel partners with people who want practical strategies and steady support while they work toward clearer goals and better daily coping.
How Ariel Uses Therapeutic Tools Online
Ariel combines cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas to support people in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with experiments and behavior changes to reduce anxiety and mood problems. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people notice how those patterns shape their feelings and choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ariel will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
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