About Neal
Neal Reiersen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings a practical, person-centered approach to therapy. He focuses on acceptance, values, and changing unhelpful patterns to help people manage anxiety, depression, and other life challenges. Neal speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable and real from the first session.
He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take small steps toward what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises and clear goals. Neal keeps the work grounded so it fits into everyday life. Neal also uses a client-centered stance and an existential lens to focus on meaning, choice, and responsibility.
That means listening closely and following the person's priorities while gently exploring values and life direction. This can help with grief, trauma, addiction, relationship strain, and major life changes. Over ten years of practice in Arizona have given him experience with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, bipolar mood symptoms, parenting stress, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
He pays attention to how family of origin and attachment patterns affect current relationships and choices. People who work with Neal should expect respect, encouragement, and concrete steps to try between sessions. He aims to help people build new habits, reduce distress, and move toward a more meaningful life.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Neal blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in a way that focuses on values, action, and listening. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the person's priorities to create a respectful space for change.He also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify patterns of thinking and try practical experiments that can change mood and behavior. Together these approaches are used collaboratively; Neal works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and what feels useful in real life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for more in-depth conversations and seen nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth varies, and chat or text can work for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or other responsibilities while keeping the same therapeutic approach.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English