Dr. Nelly Gregorian-DeLeon , LMFT

Dr. Nelly Gregorian-DeLeon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience. She holds the LMFT credential and practices in North Carolina. She speaks English, Armenian, and Persian and draws on her multilingual background when working with people from different cultures.

She aims to be warm, empathic, and nonjudgmental in sessions. She listens to each person's story and treats that story as central to care. People often come to her for relationship strain, grief, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and major life changes.

Her background includes long experience with trauma, domestic violence, and sexual abuse survivors and others affected by high-conflict relationships. She uses a range of approaches to match what a person needs at the time. That can include techniques to improve communication, manage anger, and build coping and problem-solving skills.

In sessions she focuses on practical steps and honest conversation. She helps people work through grief, rebuild self-esteem, and manage stress and compassion fatigue. She also supports those facing career choices, feelings of emptiness, or commitment and control issues.

Clients can expect a collaborative process that honors cultural differences and personal history. Her work blends client-centered care with cognitive and existential perspectives, plus other approaches when useful. She describes therapy as a shared journey toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.

Approaches for Online Work and What They Do

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own perspective. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps clients find their own solutions for relationship strain, self-esteem, or grief.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful habits through short exercises and real-life practice.

Existential therapy invites people to examine meaning, choices, and responsibility. It can help those facing life transitions, emptiness, or career questions by clarifying values and next steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can blend these approaches over time as issues evolve.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option when speaking is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or ongoing support between full sessions. Together these options offer flexibility, consistent contact, and multiple ways to practice skills learned in therapy.