About Arlene
Arlene Bishop is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who focuses on helping people manage ADHD along with other everyday struggles. She offers a steady, listening presence and practical strategies for stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. Her style aims to make change feel doable rather than overwhelming.
With 28 years of experience, she draws on a range of therapy methods to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a practical pace - identifying what’s most pressing, testing simple tools, and then building on what works. Parents worried about focus or behavior, adults juggling mood and work, and people facing grief or life shifts will find straightforward guidance and coping ideas. Arlene uses client-centered techniques to keep the person’s goals front and center.
She also applies cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to manage intense emotions and build healthier reactions. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase focus. Her approach is collaborative and solution-focused.
She helps people set clear, small goals and checks in on progress each week. When needed, she adapts plans to fit changing circumstances rather than sticking to one path. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Conversations are plainspoken and practical, aimed at producing usable steps clients can try between sessions.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and priorities, with the therapist following the client's lead and offering support to build confidence and clarify values. It helps when someone needs a listening space and practical direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and provides step-by-step tools to change unhelpful habits. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and the everyday challenges of attention and focus.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when emotions feel intense or relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful in practice.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for deeper, conversation-based work, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or coaching-style support. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, childcare schedules, or other busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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