About Arkava
Arkava Smith is a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (LPMHC) based in Delaware. She has 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and depression. Arkava aims to make the first step feel easier and more hopeful for people who are struggling.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what changes might help. She encourages open sharing so clients can name hard feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
That simple, steady approach guides the work together. Arkava uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy supports managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day stability. Many people come for help with relationships, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, or self-esteem issues.
She also supports those coping with bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She pays attention to cultural and identity factors that affect how people experience stress and healing. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Arkava works with each person to set small, achievable steps. Over time those steps add up to clearer routines, calmer reactions, and better coping with life changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Arkava combines practical methods to help people manage everyday struggles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person, which helps build trust and clarify personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to steady intense emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Arkava will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She starts by learning what is most pressing and then adapts techniques as progress and needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls work well for full conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in, and messaging or live chat can suit brief updates or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles while working with licensed professionals and therapists.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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