About Arnold
Arnold Lavaire helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and depression. He speaks English and Spanish and draws on 15 years of clinical work to guide conversations that feel clear and focused. Arnold is an LCPC and an LPC and practices in Illinois.
He prefers straightforward sessions where people name what’s hard and set small, practical goals. Arnold listens for patterns from a person’s life story and then tries tools that match the situation.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete steps to try between meetings and follow-up on what changed. Arnold grew up in Honduras and served five years in the U.S. Navy before completing degrees in psychology, counseling, and divinity.
That background shapes his attention to cultural context, identity, and life transitions. He brings experience working with immigration concerns and veteran issues among other topics. Therapy draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on the person’s priorities.
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and narrative ideas to reframe painful stories. When appropriate, solution-focused strategies help people find practical next steps quickly. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are intended to fit a range of schedules and needs.
Arnold aims to make sessions practical and respectful, and he works together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s concerns and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping people set goals that feel relevant and realistic. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches specific strategies to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression. Narrative therapy helps people examine the stories they tell about themselves and consider alternative, less harmful ways to understand their experiences.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first and will adjust the plan as needs and goals change. This collaborative stance helps people feel more in control of the work and makes it easier to test what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections and quick touch-ins between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish