aRIELLE gREENWALD, lmft-a

 I’m invested in supporting you to deepen your capacity for authentic relating with yourself and the people you choose to hold close in your life. As a relational therapist, I work with a variety of relational containers and do not subscribe to any one definition, style, or significance of a relationship, partnership, couple, or family. I honor you as the expert of your lived experience, and work with you to cultivate a space that facilitates transformation. Together, we’ll pull back the curtain on the patterns and beliefs that have shaped your relational blueprint, and work collaboratively to map out an updated version that reflects more of who you are and what you want. I approach our work together from an intersection of collaborative, conversational, queer, feminist, trauma-informed, ecologically-informed/collapse-aware, and somatically-informed frameworks. 

 Our therapeutic relationship is foundational to the work we do together. I bring my whole self into the room with you - both my personal and professional experiences along with the various aspects of my identity that inevitably shape how I relate with you. Some of my identities include being a white, cisgender woman, lesbian, mother to a neurodivergent child, spiritual, highly sensitive, educated, and able-bodied. Some of my relational experiences include marriage, divorce, co-parenting, coming out later in life, loving people living with addiction, and experiencing the sudden death of a partner. My way of being (both in and out of the therapy room) is inquisitive, compassionate, empathetic, warm, and direct. 

 As human beings, we’re wired for bonding. We need each other. And as the uncertainty of our world increases, our wellbeing hinges more than ever on the wellbeing of our relationships. I love working with couples, parents, and adult relational containers of all kinds, and I especially enjoy supporting relationships that are navigating stages of transition related to explorations with sexual orientation and/or relationship orientation. There are very few roadmaps to help guide you into this new terrain, and big changes don’t have to be figured out in isolation. I’m here to help you and your loved one/s improve communication, listen better, feel more heard and understood, and create agreements and boundaries that feel supportive and authentic to everyone involved.  

 In addition to supporting relationships through transitions, I am here now more than ever to support folks who are carrying ecological grief and/or ecological anxiety as our climate and planet rapidly change, and as we navigate the impact of Hurricane Helene in our local communities. If you’re looking to process your experience with this recent event, or with our changing climate and the more-than-human world at large, I’m here to support you.  

North Carolina Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (LMFTA)

Supervisor: Jamie Brazell, LMFT, CST

MA in Couple and Family Therapy - Antioch University New England (2024)

Certified Somatic Trauma Therapist via The Embody Lab (2021)

Trauma Response and Crisis Care (TRACC) Training (2020)

Certified Bhakti Yoga Teacher via Bhakti Yoga Shala (2013)

BA in Environmental Studies - University of California Santa Cruz (2010)

 I currently have availability for private pay clients and in-network with Aetna. I am in the process of becoming an in-network provider with BCBS, and will update here as soon as that process is complete. I am seeing clients in person.  

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