I just love my clients.
Hey Y'all!
Some call me Yannie, my two little people call me mommy, but you can call me Ari! I’m a true southern girl and a proud graduate of the New Orleans’ own Xavier University of Louisiana. I obtained my CACREP accredited master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling with a concentration in play therapy and proudly joined Chi Sigma Iota’s Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society International in 2015. I literally cannot believe I wake up every single day and do what I love to do for a living and that’s being a mommy and a therapist. They both bring me unspeakable joy. I’m now walking in my purpose and I want to help you walk in yours.
Elite transforms lives.
My love for transforming lives comes from my experience and collaborating with individuals suffering from many different types of abuse, incarceration, homelessness, addictions, dual diagnoses, those who have been held captive of their grief and trauma, and those who’ve just had some really bad habits.
My clients appreciate my elite level of professionalism, humanistic approach, accountability, accessibility, confidentiality, compassion, and most importantly, my personality. I mostly work with professionals and women’s issues. I also love working with children, adolescents, while remaining culturally competent and sensitive to the needs and desires of my clients. My small caseload allows me flexibility, creativity, and non-traditional, but ethical, ways of “getting it done” which has been the most discussed topic in sessions. I am known as, “the great adjuster.”
I love Jesus, coffee, laughing, singing, dancing, eating, and most importantly, raising my two little people. They remind me not to take myself too serious and live a little.
Nothing is off-limits in therapy, and my favorite thing to do is draw lines through my to-do list, with extremely bright highlighters because I’m extra like that, while yelling, “Done and done!”
Did I mention I love coffee? :)
Love,
Arianne L. Washington, LPC-S
“Ari is so easy to talk to and she’s so funny.”
— ELITE CLIENT
