About Mariel
Dr. Mariel Moore is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Alabama with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and struggles with sleep.
Her work also includes support for those facing trauma, parenting challenges, career questions, and compassion fatigue. She uses a client-centered style that keeps sessions conversational and goal-driven. Clients set practical aims and Dr.
Moore helps break those aims into small steps.
Background and approach
She listens closely and blends evidence-based tools with empathy to help people make steady progress. Her background includes a doctoral degree in family therapy and earlier roles in inpatient and outpatient substance-abuse counseling. That range of settings shaped a flexible approach to care and an emphasis on coordinating with other providers when helpful.
Dr. Moore draws on cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thought patterns and on emotionally-focused techniques for relationship issues. She also uses acceptance and mindfulness-based ideas when people need help tolerating difficult feelings instead of avoiding them.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation. Dr. Moore creates individualized plans and updates them as people reach goals or encounter new challenges.
She works with adults on issues such as bipolar disorder, body image, grief, and adjustment to illness, and supports parents who are struggling with blended-family dynamics or attachment concerns. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth counselor may find her practical style helpful. Her practice aims to make steady, realistic change through clear goals and regular follow-up.
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then pick clear personal values and act toward those values; this can help with anxiety, stress, and life transition work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking that feed distress and practicing concrete behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve sleep and mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and share core emotions in close relationships so they can improve communication and connection, which is useful for relationship or family concerns.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Dr. Moore will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust techniques over time. The process is collaborative and practical, with clear goals and regular check-ins to see what is helping.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are helpful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and text messaging allows brief updates or quick support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, or other commitments while using the approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Hoarding
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English