About Felicia
Felicia Bates is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of professional experience. She practices from Indiana and brings 24 years of work helping people navigate hard times. Felicia focuses on practical support and steady guidance rather than quick fixes.
She often works with people facing trauma, grief, and family conflict. She also helps those wrestling with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, stress, and challenges around self-esteem.
Background and approach
Parenting strains, caregiving stress, and relationship problems are part of her regular caseload. Felicia uses straightforward therapeutic methods to help people build skills and make changes. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment ideas, Cognitive Behavioral tools, and client-centered conversation to tailor a plan.
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior approaches can be added when emotional regulation or distress tolerance are goals. In sessions she aims to create a respectful, compassionate space. Conversations focus on practical steps and on what feels doable day to day.
She works with each person to set realistic goals and track small gains. Felicia holds the LCSW credential, listed as ME LCSW LC22065 and NJ LCSW 44SC06202200, and is based in Indiana. Getting started usually means filling out a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
She understands how hard it can be to reach out and acknowledges that first step as important.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Felicia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small committed steps toward a life they care about; this approach can be useful for people stuck by worry, loss, or life transitions. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. Client-centered therapy guides the tone of sessions, keeping conversation focused on each person’s experience and choices.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something isn’t working, adjustments are made together so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work live with a therapist while keeping face-to-face connection. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care from different places.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Maine, New Jersey
- Languages
- English