- Years in practice
- 24
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Maine, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Felicia
Felicia Bates is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stressful life events and painful relationships. She works with adults who are dealing with family conflict, trauma, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation. Felicia emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation.
Her style is direct and practical. She listens first, then helps people map out small, achievable steps. Sessions focus on clear goals like reducing anxiety, managing anger, or improving communication.
Background and approach
She adapts her approach to match each person’s needs and pace. Felicia uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to help clients build new skills. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
Mindfulness-based practices are used to strengthen emotion regulation and moment-to-moment awareness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients clarify values and take action toward what matters to them despite difficult feelings. Dialectical behavior strategies are incorporated when people need tools for intense emotions and relationship stress.
She has worked with concerns across many life domains, including parenting challenges, caregiving stress, career transitions, and recovery from domestic violence or other trauma. Felicia also supports people facing grief, chronic illness in the family, blended family issues, and problems rooted in family of origin. Felicia practices from Indiana and speaks English.
She will tailor conversations and plans to a person’s situation and goals, while pacing work so it feels manageable and realistic.
What Felicia works with
Everything Felicia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Felicia helps people with.
- 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 for Online Parenting and Family Concerns
Felicia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that interfere with daily life.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when emotions are difficult. ACT can help with parenting decisions, grief, and long-term life changes.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust strategies based on what helps. This collaborative process means techniques are chosen to match personal values and practical needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a shorter break or require less bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, brief conversations between sessions. These options make it easier to balance therapy with parenting and work demands.
Questions people ask about Felicia
What concerns does Felicia commonly address?
She works with adults facing family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, anxiety, stress, relationship issues, and parenting challenges.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She listens closely, sets clear goals, and teaches skills for managing emotions and improving communication.
What is her professional background?
Felicia brings 24 years of social work experience across clinical settings where she supported people coping with loss, trauma, caregiving stress, and life transitions.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds the LCSW credential and practices in Indiana; she is also documented with ME LCSW and NJ LCSW in her background.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the person's preference.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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