Felicia Bates, LCSW

Felicia Bates is a licensed clinical social worker with over two decades of experience. She builds straightforward plans to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. She treats each person with respect and compassion.

Felicia focuses on family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and issues that affect self-esteem. She also helps people facing major life changes, parenting challenges, career stress, and burnout from caregiving or compassion fatigue. Her background includes work with blended families, adoption and foster care situations, and people coping with illness or aging relatives.

In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered techniques to make useful changes. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness to help people manage strong emotions and build better coping skills. Felicia adapts methods to what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.

She has experience across community and clinical settings and brings 24 years of practice to the work. Felicia tailors conversations and goals to fit a person’s daily life and limits. She aims for clear, manageable steps people can try between sessions.

People who come to Felicia often want practical tools and steady support while facing hard events. She encourages small, realistic changes and checks progress together. Getting started is framed as a collaborative process that respects each person’s pace.

How these approaches translate to online care

Felicia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on concrete skills you can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and tackle stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that reflect their values. ACT can be useful for grief, life transitions, and chronic stress where acceptance and valued action matter.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Felicia will talk through options, try strategies, and adjust as needed based on your goals and what feels most useful. She emphasizes collaboration so the plan fits your daily life and priorities.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy schedule. Video sessions allow real-time discussion and nonverbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on goals while balancing family, work, and other commitments.