Works with
- Anger
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
How Felicia works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Maine, New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 24
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Felicia
Felicia Bates is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of practice who offers practical support for people facing difficult life moments. She works from Indiana and brings steady experience to conversations about family stress, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and anger. Felicia focuses on clear, respectful dialogue and meeting each person where they are.
Her approach is straightforward and people-centered. She adapts sessions to individual needs and helps clients build skills for everyday life, such as managing stress, coping with loss, and improving motivation.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be concrete and useful rather than full of jargon. Felicia combines several evidence-based methods to help people change unhelpful patterns and try new responses. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and a client-centered stance.
These tools are used to address concerns like anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, and career stress. Clients often work on tolerating strong emotions, communicating more clearly, and setting boundaries within challenging family situations. She also supports people navigating life changes, caregiving strain, and complicated grief.
Felicia emphasizes practical steps alongside emotion-focused work. Her style is warm and calm, with an emphasis on respect and sensitivity. She helps people create a plan that fits their goals and daily life.
Taking a first step can feel hard, and she aims to make it manageable and clear.
What Felicia works with
Everything Felicia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Felicia's practice.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Felicia lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small values-based actions. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy trains present-moment awareness through simple practices that reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Felicia works with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. She blends techniques as needed and checks in regularly to make sure the plan feels helpful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and interactive work, phone can fit a lower-bandwidth check-in, live chat is useful for brief exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between visits.
Questions people ask about Felicia
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps people with family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, anger, relationship and parenting concerns, career and mood issues including bipolar and depression, and compassion fatigue.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is warm and client-centered with practical, plain-language guidance. She focuses on respectful dialogue and building real skills that can be used between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 24 years of professional experience working with a broad range of concerns, including family problems, trauma, and grief.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ME LCSW and NJ LCSW credentials and practices from Indiana.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and subscription work?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.