About Arthalia
Dr. Arthalia Weekes is a licensed social worker with 18 years of practice in mental health. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship pain, and trauma.
Parents reading this will find clear, straightforward language and a calm approach to difficult problems. She pays attention to what’s under the surface while also addressing real day-to-day struggles. Sessions focus on practical steps that can reduce overwhelm and improve mood.
Conversations cover thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and the environment that affects everyday life.
Background and approach
Dr. Weekes draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match each person’s needs. She often combines approaches to address trauma, mood concerns, and anxiety together rather than relying on a single method.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Over nearly two decades she has worked with people facing issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, control issues, dissociation, and the fallout of divorce or infidelity. She also addresses guilt, shame, forgiveness, impulsivity, and domestic violence impacts.
Sessions are offered in English and take place with a focus on helping each person build skills they can use outside of therapy. Dr. Weekes practices in Kansas and brings a respectful, down-to-earth style to her work.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Dr. Weekes uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One commonly used approach she integrates targets traumatic memories and helps reduce their disruptive emotional intensity by working with how memories are processed in therapy. This method can help people struggling with past abuse or other traumatic events.Another frequently applied approach helps people build skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and reducing self-destructive patterns. It emphasizes learning concrete tools to handle distress and improve communication in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and response to different methods, and then adapt techniques over time based on what is helping. Clients and therapist work together to choose and adjust strategies that fit the person’s needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as scheduling flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls are useful for in-depth sessions that rely on face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is available, live chat can provide a shorter check-in during a busy day, and text-based messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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