Arielle Zieja (she/her)

APCC, LMHCA, CTNC, CIEC, MA
Accepting Clients

Creative counselor who loves depth work, meditation, and the woo, helping people create real, embodied change.

Associate Professional Clinical Counselor in California
Supervised by Erica Siegal, LCSW, 86622

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Adolescent/Teen
  • Group

About My Clients

Thoughtful, self-aware, creative, high-functioning, maybe spiritual, have done a lot of inner work.. but still feel stuck. Many are deep feelers wearing masks, navigating religious deconstruction, family trauma, or chronic stress in the body. They may understand their patterns, yet find themselves repeating them in relationships and life in general. They’re ready to go deeper, beyond insight and into real, embodied change.

My Background and Approach

I come to this work with a background in holistic health and a deep respect for the connection between mind, body, and meaning. My approach blends somatic therapy, nervous system work, and depth-oriented exploration of subconscious patterns. I often integrate meditation and draw from spiritual and symbolic frameworks when it’s supportive, not as belief systems to adopt, but as tools for insight and transformation. I’m especially interested in the places where insight hasn’t led to change. Together, we work with what’s happening beneath the surface, how patterns live in the body, how the nervous system holds onto them, and how they show up in relationships, creativity, and physical symptoms. This work is not about fixing you. It’s about helping you build the capacity to be with your experience in a different way, so something new can emerge.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I don’t believe you’re broken or in need of fixing. Most of what we struggle with makes sense in the context of our relationships, environments, and the ways our bodies learned to keep us safe. I value honesty, personal responsibility, and compassion. That means we can be real about what’s hard without collapsing into blame or bypassing what needs to be faced. Healing, to me, is not about becoming a “better” version of yourself, but about building the capacity to be with your life more fully and respond to it with intention. I believe emotions are meant to be felt and worked with, not avoided or overridden. Insight matters, but lasting change happens when the body and nervous system are included. I’m open to spirituality, symbolism, and the deeper layers of experience, but I don’t see them as something to adopt or perform. My role is not to tell you what to believe, but to support you in discovering what is true for you and living from that place with clarity, integrity, and agency.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Depth Therapy Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma Transpersonal Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Contemplative Therapy
  • Couples Counseling
  • Dance / Movement Therapy
  • Depth Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Expressive Art Therapy
  • Holistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Relational Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Transpersonal Therapy
  • Integrative Therapy
  • Relationship Counseling

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Chronic Pain or Illness Spirituality
Other Issues
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Attachment
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Eating Disorders
  • Grief or Loss
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Parenting
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Optum
  • United Healthcare
  • UnitedHealthcare (Optum)
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Taoism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: Less than a year
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $80 - 160/session

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