About Aritha
Aritha Yarborough is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that make a difference day to day. Her style aims to help people feel steadier and more able to handle life’s demands.
Aritha draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also uses client-centered listening to make space for each person's experience.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills and tools from dialectical behavior therapy are woven into sessions to help manage intense emotions and build better coping habits. She has five years of experience working with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career transitions, and substance use.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and complicated grief. The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time. Sessions are collaborative.
Aritha works with each person to set clear goals and pick practical strategies that fit daily life. She balances skill teaching with listening so clients can practice between appointments. Based in Florida, Aritha offers therapies aimed at increasing emotional regulation, improving communication, and reducing stress.
Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on what helps in real life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values even when thoughts or feelings are hard. It is helpful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing different behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Both approaches teach concrete skills people can practice between sessions and can be used to address ADHD-related challenges.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the individual's needs and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video is useful for more in-depth work and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or support between longer sessions. These choices make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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