Hey there, I'm Arielle

 

 

I’ve always been drawn to what lives beneath the surface — the patterns that persist despite our understanding...

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I trained in clinical health psychology because I wanted to understand the mind and body together, not as separate systems, but as interwoven ones. Over time, my work expanded beyond traditional talk therapy into nervous system regulation, attachment repair, and integrative health.

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Insight matters.
Understanding your patterns matters.

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For many people, insight does create change.

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But sometimes the mind understands long before the body feels safe.

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We can know cognitively that something isn’t healthy — that a relationship dynamic isn’t loving, that a coping strategy no longer serves us — and still feel pulled back into it.

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Because the body remembers.
It remembers attachment.
It remembers threat.
It remembers what once felt like love.

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Lasting change happens when both the mind and the body are included.

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My Training & Clinical Background

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Licensed Professional Counselor (PA)
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (CA)

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M.S. in Counseling & Clinical Health Psychology
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Ph.D. in Social & Political Psychology
University of California, Riverside

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Level 3 Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Somatic Attachment Therapy (The Embody Lab)

Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP)
Certified Nutrition Practitioner (C-NP)

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What this means in practice is that I look at the whole system:

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Your nervous system.
Your attachment history.
Your relational patterns.
Your physiology.

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Sometimes the barrier isn’t insight.
Sometimes it’s regulation.
Sometimes it’s unresolved attachment injury.
Sometimes it’s inflammation, depletion, or chronic stress living in the body.

Often, it’s layered.

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What You Can Expect

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We slow down what feels automatic.​

We get curious about the wound beneath the reaction.​

We don’t rush to fix.
We understand first.

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I work well with people who are high-functioning, intelligent, and willing to look honestly at themselves — including the parts they don’t show easily.

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You are not beyond repair

and you are certainly not doomed to stay this way forever.

Your system learned patterns that once kept you safe.

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Real change happens when your nervous system catches up to what your mind already knows.