About Mirfat
Dr. Mirfat Addi welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She is a licensed professional counselor with a PhD in counseling and six years of clinical experience.
Dr. Addi speaks English and Arabic and offers sessions to clients in Louisiana and beyond. She focuses on practical steps to help people feel steadier and more able to manage day-to-day life.
Her approach begins with listening.
Background and approach
She aims to understand what matters most to each person and what gets in the way of feeling better. From there she and the client build a plan that fits the person's goals and lifestyle. That plan may include skills to manage intense feelings, routines to reduce stress, or steps to address substance use and relationship strain.
Dr. Addi uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, along with mindfulness and motivational interviewing strategies. She adapts these tools to the unique situation in each session so conversations stay focused and useful.
The work is collaborative and paced to what the client can handle. People often bring concerns about parenting, family conflict, trauma and abuse, depression, or addictive behaviors. She also addresses issues like self-esteem, anger, body image, and coping after divorce or other losses.
Sessions aim to build skills that carry into everyday life. If someone prefers remote care, Dr. Addi offers multiple online formats.
New clients complete a brief questionnaire to match with her and can schedule sessions based on availability.
How these therapies translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that reflect their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes, which often helps with anxiety, mood struggles, and obsessive thinking. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them explore what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Dr. Addi will work with each person to select and adapt methods based on their goals, daily demands, and what feels most helpful. That decision is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep treatment consistent over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, Arabic