About April
April Mullen is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, issues related to LGBT identity, and low self-esteem. Her approach aims to make daily life easier and more manageable.
April works to create a respectful, compassionate space for each person who reaches out. She draws on 13 years of experience to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical coping skills, strengthening emotional connection to oneself, and learning ways to respond differently to old patterns.
Background and approach
April uses body-focused awareness alongside talk-based methods to help people notice and shift stuck patterns. Her work often centers on attachment concerns, communication problems, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency, and recovery from trauma or abuse.
Additional topics she addresses include gender dysphoria, BDSM and kink concerns, grief around hospice and end-of-life situations, and coping with life changes such as divorce or relocation. April blends client-centered listening with structured tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical skills when helpful. That mix lets sessions be warm and practical at the same time.
The goal is to help people build new habits that reduce shame, increase confidence, and improve relationships. People meet with April by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are offered in English and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Somatic work focuses on the connection between body sensations and emotions. It helps people notice tightness, breath changes, or other bodily signals and learn gentle ways to regulate them. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma, and stress responses.Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current trust and closeness. In sessions, it helps people understand patterns that affect relationships and practice new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and uses empathic listening to help people feel heard and make their own choices.
Finding the right combination of methods is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit best for their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can be adjusted as things change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to meet from home, during work breaks, or while traveling within the same region. Many people appreciate being able to use different formats as their needs shift over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English