About Ferial
Ferial Youkhanna is a licensed master social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She speaks English and Arabic and draws on two decades plus of clinical experience to offer steady, practical support. Her sessions are straightforward and goal-focused.
She listens first, then helps clients set clear, manageable steps to reduce symptoms and regain control. Common concerns she addresses include panic and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and problems with intimacy or communication.
Background and approach
Ferial uses a mix of approaches to fit each person. She often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-based and client-centered methods. That means she helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, look at relationship patterns, and build on their strengths in a compassionate way.
Clients can expect a calm, matter-of-fact style. She works with people on practical tools - breathing and grounding for anxiety, thought work for negative beliefs, and role-based exercises for relationship patterns. Sessions may include problem-solving, emotion work, and planning for real-life changes.
Ferial also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, career pressure, and complicated life transitions. Her experience includes working with addictions, bipolar disorder, and grief after loss. She aims to make therapy useful and doable for busy lives.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people change how they relate to others and themselves, which is useful for intimacy and communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and building a trusting relationship so clients can explore feelings and choose their own path.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust over time. That collaborative rhythm helps clients find what works without committing to a single method up front.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face from wherever you are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins possible, and messaging fits people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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