Dr. Nelly Gregorian-DeLeon, LMFT

Dr. Nelly Gregorian-DeLeon is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. She is licensed in California and North Carolina and works with adults coping with relationship struggles, trauma, grief, parenting stress, depression, anxiety, and anger. She speaks English, Armenian, and Persian, and accepts international clients.

In sessions she uses clear, practical steps rather than jargon. She draws on several approaches to match a person's needs, including client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies. Conversations often focus on identifying patterns, managing intense feelings, and building better communication skills.

Dr. Gregorian-DeLeon has worked with people affected by domestic and sexual violence, survivors of childhood abuse, and others facing high-conflict relationships. She also supports those dealing with life transitions, caregiver strain, and career or role changes. Her background includes work across different countries and cultural settings.

Therapy can include direct skill-building for stress and anger, narrative work to make sense of a difficult past, and attention to meaning and values when life feels uncertain. Sessions may also explore family-of-origin issues and commitment or control problems that keep repeating.

Practical goals tend to guide the work: reduce reactivity, improve communication, and find tolerable ways to handle grief and loss. To begin she asks people to describe the immediate problems they want to change and the small steps they are willing to try.

How her approaches translate to online work