About Ariel
Ariel Brown is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship struggles. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Ariel uses straightforward conversation to build trust and find what works for each person.
She practices with an attachment perspective, which looks at how early connections affect current relationships and self-worth. Ariel also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and motivational interviewing to support change.
Background and approach
Somatic ideas are included when body sensations and stress are part of the problem. Over nine years of work have given Ariel experience with a wide range of concerns. These include depression, self-esteem, body image, communication problems, and addiction-related struggles.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, codependency, and life transitions like divorce or midlife change. Ariel honors cultural differences and pays attention to how identity and background shape a person's experience. She works with people dealing with LGBT and gender-related questions, veterans and armed forces issues, and multicultural concerns.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Sessions are offered in English and conducted remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Ariel practices as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW and previously held the CSW credential.
Her license details are CO LCSW CSW.09932737 and TX LCSW 61442.
How Ariel's Approaches Work Online
Ariel commonly blends attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand relationships and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships affect current trust and closeness, which can help when relationships or self-worth feel strained. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying upsetting thoughts and testing new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change when addiction, lifestyle shifts, or difficult choices are involved. That approach emphasizes listening, exploring values, and building small, achievable steps toward goals in a nonjudgmental way. Together these methods help create practical plans that match a person's priorities and pace.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, family, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English