Arielle Shipp, LPC

Arielle Shipp is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 14 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, grief, sleep struggles, parenting strain, anger, career concerns, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are conducted in English within Virginia.

Arielle views each person as the expert on their own story. She helps clients identify strengths they already have and use those strengths to address what feels overwhelming. Her approach is direct and practical, focusing on steps a person can try between sessions.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thought and behavior patterns and make changes that reduce stress and reactivity. She also draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and trauma-focused work when past events continue to cause distress. These methods are applied with attention to pacing and client readiness.

In sessions she typically talks through what is happening now, develops specific coping skills, and practices new ways of responding to anger or anxiety. She emphasizes clear goals and measurable steps rather than vague reassurance. Meetings are pragmatic and geared toward improving day-to-day functioning.

For people juggling work, parenting, or fertility and pregnancy concerns, she addresses the practical pressures that build resentment or overwhelm. She also works on communication problems, body image, self-love, forgiveness, postpartum depression, and issues related to childbirth and parenting.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial appointment. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and international clients are not accepted.

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