About Arielle
Arielle Speer is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and workplace strain. She offers practical support for self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. People looking for goal-focused help often find her direct approach useful.
She practices cognitive behavioral methods that break problems into smaller, manageable parts. She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to build coping skills and discover clear next steps.
Background and approach
When trauma has played a role, she applies trauma-focused ideas to help steady emotional reactions and safety in daily life. Arielle holds an MA and is listed as a Massachusetts LICSW and a Missouri LCSW. She brings seven years of clinical experience to each session and centers work on progress rather than perfection.
Sessions emphasize practical strategies people can try between meetings. Her background includes work with autistic adults to develop coping skills and reduce burnout. She supports people dealing with caregiver stress, isolation and social anxiety, and those navigating workplace issues and life purpose questions.
She also addresses mood disorders, impulsivity, and challenges linked to intellectual disability. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and small experiments. She helps people test new responses, notice what changes, and adjust plans as needed.
This approach keeps work grounded and oriented toward everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Arielle commonly draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on clear steps and experiments that reduce anxiety and improve mood over time.Mindfulness therapy is also part of her work and teaches simple attention and breathing practices. These skills help calm intense moments and build awareness of stress patterns that lead to burnout or overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together with the therapist. She will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what feels most useful. That collaborative stance keeps sessions practical and tailored to each person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text options allow shorter check-ins or step-by-step coaching between meetings. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Arkansas, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English