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Online therapist

Arielle Bryant

Support for family and parenting challenges

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Credentials
LMFT
Experience
6 years
Licensed in
Michigan, Rhode Island
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Arielle

Arielle Bryant is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Michigan. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship issues. Arielle speaks plain, direct language and works to make sessions feel practical and manageable for busy parents.

She uses a warm, collaborative style that emphasizes strengths, kindness, and clear goals. Her work often centers on improving patterns inside relationships and supporting individual growth within those connections.

Background and approach

Arielle combines evidence-based skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Attachment-Based ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns and repair connection. She also uses Client-Centered and Solution-Focused techniques to set achievable steps and build momentum. In sessions she helps clients identify small, practical actions they can try between meetings.

She encourages realistic goal-setting and offers accountability without judgment. Her approach blends conversation, skill practice, and problem-solving to address parenting stress, family communication, and life transitions. Arielle has six years of clinical experience working in community mental health and with varied relationship concerns.

She holds the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, LMFT, with license numbers RI LMFT MFT00268 and MI LMFT 4101007116. She conducts work in English and bases plans on each person’s needs and values. Parents who want straightforward guidance and a collaborative plan often find her style helpful.

Sessions emphasize small wins, clearer communication, and steady steps toward healthier relationships and better self-care.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit family life

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand connection patterns and repair bonds with partners or family members through clearer communication and increased safety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals, preferences, and situation. Sessions often mix techniques so the plan fits real-life parenting demands and relationship needs.

Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy family schedule. Video and phone let people have focused conversation time, while chat and messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing problem-solving. These options help maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult and give flexibility for different communication styles.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Arielle address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and parenting issues, ADHD, bipolar and mood concerns, self-esteem, anger, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family issues, and multicultural concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and strength-based, using clear goal-setting and practical skills. She blends Cognitive Behavioral, Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused approaches depending on needs.
What is her professional background?
She has six years of clinical experience, mainly in community mental health, working with a range of relationship and individual concerns. That experience informs her practical, relational approach.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - with license details RI LMFT MFT00268 and MI LMFT 4101007116 and practices in Michigan.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
6 years
Licensed
Michigan, Rhode Island
Languages
English

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