Felicia Bates, LCSW

Felicia Bates is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience. She practices in Indiana and has long worked with people facing major life changes, grief, and family conflict. She aims to meet each person with respect and compassion, and she adapts conversation and plans to individual needs.

Her background includes extensive work supporting people after trauma and abuse, and helping them manage anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and stress. She also helps with parenting strain, caregiving stress, and problems that come from blended families or adoption and foster care situations.

Felicia uses several practical therapy approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. Sessions typically focus on skills you can use between visits, clearer communication, and steps to restore daily routines.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps make a plan that fits the client’s goals. She encourages realistic steps and offers coaching when people want extra help with career or relationship decisions.

People come to her for help with anger, abandonment issues, commitment worries, or feeling empty after life transitions. She also supports those coping with cancer, caregiver burden, divorce, and other major stressors. If you are unsure whether this is the right fit, she asks simple questions and suggests a next step.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Felicia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and then act in line with their values instead of getting stuck. This approach is often useful for life changes, grief, and persistent worry.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with clearer, more useful ways of looking at problems. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and stress management.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with clients to pick methods that match goals and daily life. That choice is collaborative and may change as needs evolve.

Please confirm which session formats are available before booking, since formats are not listed in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, help reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people meet from quieter surroundings or use a phone option if they prefer not to be on camera.