About Ariana
Ariana Gordon is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship strain, and self-esteem. Her style is direct and practical, with an emphasis on understanding what led to a problem and what can change now.
She listens for patterns in how someone thinks, feels, and communicates. Then she works with them to try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on short-term tools and longer-term insight, depending on what each person needs. Ariana uses several approaches to match different goals. She draws on client-centered methods to follow the person's lead.
She adds Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help finding internal reasons to change. Her experience includes helping people facing grief, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD concerns, bipolar disorder, and life transitions.
She also addresses deeper issues like attachment, abandonment, codependency, body image, and family of origin problems. People who meet with Ariana can expect a collaborative process. She balances empathetic listening with concrete steps to try between sessions.
Her aim is to help people gain clearer perspective, build coping skills, and move toward goals that matter to them.
Approaches that guide online care
Ariana often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means she starts by listening closely and following what the person brings to the session. This approach helps people feel heard and helps the therapist tailor the work to each person's goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that identifies unhelpful thoughts and changes behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for building practical coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ariana will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the focus as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and have longer sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking.
These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives, stay connected across distance in New Jersey, and try different ways of working until they find what helps most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English