About Me
Hello! My name is April McElroy. I am a Licensed Marital and Family Therapy practicing in Tulsa, OK. I received my Undergraduate degree in Psychology in the year 2000 from Southern Connecticut State University. I obtained my Master's of Arts Degree in Marital and Family Therapy in 2015 from Southern Nazarene University. I have experience working with severely mentally ill individuals in the residential setting. I also have experience working in the Inpatient setting with individuals struggling with mental illness and substance abuse issues.
I happen to work well with Teens as I can identify with their struggles. Teens today struggle with issues such as identity concerns, negotiating their independence from the household, and fluctuating hormones and puberty challenges. I like to get to know Teens when I work with them and I will take time to establish trust and build rapport with them through exploring their personal interests.
Thank you for considering me to work with your Teen. Together we can help your child navigate the issues of Teenagerhood a little more easier.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
Addictions , Trauma and abuse , Intimacy-related issues , Eating disorders , Parenting issues , Anger management , Self esteem , Bipolar disorder , Coping with life changes , Compassion fatigue , Abandonment , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Gottman Method, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Services Offered
Messaging
Live Chat
Phone
Video
Licensing
LMFT #1327 (Expires: 2021-04-01)
Reviews
The best counselor I have ever had. She takes time to listen and is in tune with your needs.
April have helped my daughter a lot..
I’ve been working with April for a few weeks now and she has definitely helped me. I find her techniques are very useful to me.
April has really helped me over the past months. She's easy to get along with, is a great listener and offers very good and careful insight.
Wonderful to work with and always available
April provided a strategic approach which allowed both my partner and I to not only feel safe and not judged, but also the freedom to arrive at our own conclusions. She asks relevant questions and provided solid insights, getting to the underlying issues. My partner and I were not communicating effectively, causing a lot of misunderstanding and pain. Our conversations are now more open as we have become more vulnerable and honest with ourselves and one another. We've been giving each other the time and patience to make progress and grow. We realized that we had both caused a lot of unintentional harm to not only each other, but ourselves and the relationship. April's insight helped immensely and she knows what she's doing as a professional. Thank you again April! You are awesome at what you love to do and it shows!
We slowly work through my problems and don’t rush things. We didn’t set clear goals of what I wanted to achieve right at the beginning, because over time the goals I seeked became clearer than when I first started.
April is amazing, professional and caring. We had troubles with time zones and connection that’s why the sessions were postponed but we figured how to fix it even though it was frustrating in the beginning.
I love the metaphors she used to help me better understand myself and the situation
I have never met with a therapist before, so my frame of reference is small, but I feel April has made it easy to confront the subjects I want to talk about and delve into. She offers a self reflection method followed by clinical advice that ads up to make sense of your current state of mind. I feel productive after a session!
April has been an incredible help to me in a very difficult time of my life. On top of all of the past trauma I’ve had throughout my life, I had a very recent and traumatic family emergency that devastated me and changed my world. April listens, cares, and advises. She has helped me find the tools within myself to continue living despite my circumstances. I could say thank you a million times and it would never be enough to adequately express my gratitude. Thank you April
I have only worked with April for a short time, but she made me feel comfortable immediately. She is warm and helpful, offering thought provoking questions as well as things to reflect on. I always leave my sessions feeling better than when I started. I couldn’t recommend her enough.
April has been an enormous help. I appreciate her compassion and ability to help me be mindful when I’ve felt overwhelmed. I highly recommend her
April has been such a great help to me so far on my journey to bettering my mental health. She is very understanding and caring. She listens to what you have to say, and also makes sure you understand her feedback/recommendations as well. I look forward to continuing to work with her.
April is very easy to talk to and understands what is going on with me personally. She is very professional yet very compassionate.
She’s been very understanding and helpful in a short period of time.
April and I are just starting to get to know each other. I enjoy her approach and feel like she listens intently to what I have to say. I appreciate her insights, knowledge, and genuine personality.
April is great! High quality therapist, I love her intuitive approach.
She's friendly, professional, and clearly has a passion for what she does. I'd highly recommend her.
April was my first therapist and she was immensely helpful to me in dealing with my ongoing work related stress and anxiety. She also helped me identify my feelings towards my past abuse and I think I can now see what steps I need to take to move forward.
April is a very approachable, understanding counselor and she constantly challenges me to see things from a different perspective and not get caught up in my own narratives and negative thought processes. Highly recommended.
April has been truly instrumental in helping me to overcome and work through my trauma as well as my basic insecurities. I am so grateful for her for facilitating my growth and healing.
April is gentle, responsive, and professional. She has used a range of techniques to elicit breakthroughs in our individual and couples sessions. I was skeptical about therapy via video, because I didn’t know if it would be possible to experience a therapist warmth and empathy or for a counselor to interpret our individual and shared meta communications!
All those concerns disappeared without minutes. April’s attuned insights, sensitive responses and thoughtful questions are guiding my husband and I to individual and shared discoveries that are helping us create the strongest bond we’ve ever had!
April is incredibly thoughtful in her approach to counseling. She challenges me in ways no other therapist ever has. I feel that I am making real, meaningful change within myself with April.
So far, it’s been an enlightening experience, learning more about myself and teen counselinging confidence every day. Thanks April!
April is kind and gentle.
She’s very knowledgeable and professional.
Thank you, I feel like this will be a good match.
We're at the beginning stages of getting to know one another, so we slowly building a respect and rapport with one another and I'm happy at the pace we're doing it at. April always listens to me and encourages me to think deeper on things I say without thinking and encourages my strengths. I think this is the beginning of a great professional relationship with a very kind person.
April has been a joy to work with. She has been attentive and very helpful in regards to processing trauma and moving on with healthy coping methods.
April is amazing! She has helped with our tremendously. We are so thankful for her. ❤️
April has been very supportive and understanding from the start of our sessions. She made me and my husband feel very comfortable and so we were able to open up about our issues. There’s still a lot of work to be done but we’re definitely making some progress.
April is everything I could have ever asked for. At first I was unsure about the online aspect of teen counseling but I would never go back. April makes me feel so empowered to go deep and understand my issues and gives me the tools to be approach the hard ones. She is so attentive and intelligent and compassionate and the journey with her has been a revelation. I'm so endlessly grateful for her.
April is my first therapist and I feel she has greatly helped me. She listens and restates, allowing me to understand my situation from a true, third-party. She then gives sound counsel, allowing me to put a name to an emotion or circumstance I have found myself in. This helps because I can now identify my struggle and move forward in healing it properly instead of ignoring it because I don't even know what it is.
I have very much enjoyed and appreciated April in our sessions.