About April
April Mullen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and mood struggles. She supports clients dealing with LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. April focuses on building confidence, improving self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
She takes a respectful, compassionate approach and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions are collaborative and practical. April aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Background and approach
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused methods to help people understand their patterns in relationships. She also uses cognitive-behavioral strategies and dialectical skills to teach ways to manage strong emotions and troubling thoughts. These approaches are used together to match what feels most helpful for each person.
With 13 years of experience, April has supported people through grief, divorce and separation, abandonment issues, and the challenges of midlife. She also addresses areas like codependency, communication problems, BDSM and kink culture concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and gender dysphoria when relevant to the person seeking help.
Sessions are offered in English and take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. April uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and session cost varies by location and availability. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule a session.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape emotional responses. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice repetitive patterns and build new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and loneliness.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and shift difficult emotions to improve connection and self-understanding. In virtual sessions this may include focused dialogues and guided exercises that strengthen emotional awareness and improve communication with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. April will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, preferences, and comfort level. She adjusts pacing and techniques as needs change so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and to use the approach that works best for each person.
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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