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Online therapist

Azelia Goings

Compassionate, practical support for everyday challenges

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Credentials
LISW
Experience
19 years
Licensed in
Ohio
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Azelia

Azelia Goings is a licensed independent social worker with 19 years of practice in Ohio. She focuses on everyday pressures like stress, anxiety, work problems, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing parenting questions, relationship tension, grief, career shifts, and the emotional fallout from divorce or separation.

Her sessions are built around respectful, direct conversation. Azelia adapts what she does to each person’s needs and life circumstances. She draws on practical skills and short-term strategies to manage symptoms and improve functioning.

Background and approach

Clinically, she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She also brings client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to encourage clearer goals and stronger commitment to change. Azelia is experienced with issues that touch identity and intimacy, including BDSM and alternative sex culture, and with caregiver stress and compassion fatigue.

She also addresses isolation, guilt and shame, and challenges common for young adults and women. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She helps people make concrete plans, try new behaviors, and notice small shifts that add up over time.

Therapeutic approaches for online care and skill building

Azelia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical ways to test and change unhelpful thinking. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want concrete strategies to feel better faster.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can be useful for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and coping during big life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust based on what works. Clients help shape the plan through regular feedback and goal setting.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work lives, try tools between appointments, and maintain continuity when schedules or locations change.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Azelia address?
She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family problems, grief, anger, career and life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is direct and respectful, mixing listening with practical skill building. She tailors conversation and exercises to what each person needs.
What is her professional background?
She holds 19 years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and life challenges. That experience shapes her practical, results-oriented focus.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker - licensed in Ohio under OH LISW I.0900007-SUPV.
Which languages and regions does she support?
Sessions are offered in English and she is licensed to practice in Ohio. International clients are not accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
19 years
Licensed
Ohio
Languages
English

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