About Arleen
Dr. Arleen Atkins is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She works with concerns such as depression, relationship struggles, grief, addictions, self-esteem, and trouble sleeping. Her practice also addresses parenting stress, career changes, anger, and intimacy-related issues. Phobias are one of the specific concerns listed in her work.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood, and Solution-Focused Therapy, which helps people identify concrete goals and small changes that move them forward. Sessions tend to focus on clear strategies and short-term goals rather than abstract theory. Dr.
Atkins believes clients are the experts on their own lives and that therapy should build on existing strengths. She uses practical questions and exercises to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and track progress over time. People who choose her services can expect straightforward conversation, goal setting, and tools to try between sessions.
She supports clients through life transitions, grief and end-of-life concerns, family-of-origin issues, and other complex stressors with calm, experienced guidance.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Dr. Atkins uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going, then try small behavior changes to shift feelings and reactions. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and phobias because it focuses on clear, testable steps.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify specific goals and quick, practical actions that build momentum. That method is helpful when someone wants concrete progress on things like confidence, relationships, or coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to keep using.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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