I know how difficult holding it all together can be.
Between work, the group text you still haven’t answered, and the eight things you’re the only one who remembers, it’s A LOT.
I started That’s So Well as a recovering over-achiever who learned most of this the hard way. Now I spend my days with women who look extremely put together and are running on fumes underneath. Trust me, I get it.
I’m a therapist based in Elk Grove, and I see women online throughout California. I’d love to support you.
If you’ve landed here, something probably feels like A LOT right now and I'd love to help.
I work with women who are great at handling everyone else and not so great at handling themselves. Whether that looks like weekly therapy or one of my eBooks, I would love to be a part of your journey!
I believe you deserve a place where you don’t have to be the one holding it together, where you can say the thing you’ve been rehearsing in the shower for three weeks and nobody needs you to be fine. That’s usually where the change you’ve been wanting actually starts.
That’s So Well is where all the things I care about ended up in one place… I’m a licensed therapist AND a nutritional therapy practitioner, so we’re going to talk about the thoughts that keep you up at night, and also whether you ate lunch today.
I work with women who look like they have it all together, but under the surface are running on caffeine, never ending to-do lists, and a running replay of everything they said in the last meeting.
For most of my clients that looks like anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or an inner critic that never takes a day off, and a lot of the time it’s happening alongside something big, a new job, a move, a relationship that’s changing, a season where everything feels like A LOT.
You belong here if you’re tired of being the capable one and want someone in your corner who actually gets what that costs, because I’ve been there. I’ll be honest with you, I’ll cheer you on, and you’ll finally get to be the one who’s taken care of for an hour.
If you’re in California and you’ve been reading this nodding along, I’d love to hear from you. Book a free 15-minute intro call, and we’ll figure out where to start together.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Yoga Instructor
Meet Arielle Pinkston
I’m originally from Elk Grove, California. I got my BA in Psychology from Sonoma State University and my MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and somewhere in the middle of grad school, internships, living far from my family, and trying to figure out what I was doing with my life, I started noticing how many of the people around me were struggling too… smart, driven, getting everything done, and having a much harder time than anyone could tell. That’s where this work started for me.
It’s also when I found my way back to yoga. I’d taken a handful of classes before and liked it, but grad school is when it became the thing that kept me steady, so naturally I signed up for yoga teacher training at the same time as my master’s program, because that’s what recovering over-achievers do. Needless to say, it was A LOT. Both of them asked me to take a hard look at myself and sit with feelings I’d been avoiding, and doing them side by side showed me how much changes when you care for the whole person, mind and body.
Over the past decade as a therapist I’ve worked with hundreds of women, and while talk therapy and medication can help so much, I kept wanting to know what else was going on, what they were eating, how they were moving, and how all of it was showing up in their mood. So I went down a research rabbit hole, and then enrolled in the Nutritional Therapy Association’s program to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. I still love learning new ways to take care of myself and my clients, and now I get to bring all of it into our sessions.
We tend to treat mental health like its own separate thing, without looking at how food, lifestyle, and everything else in your life is feeding into how you feel. That’s the whole idea behind That’s So Well, taking a more holistic approach to anxiety and giving you support that fits your actual life.
When you work with me you get a licensed therapist, a nutrition nerd, a decent amount of humor, and a plan built around you and your specific week.
Credentials
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California
MA in Clinical Psychology, Pepperdine University
Trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Mindful Self-Compassion
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner through the Nutritional Therapy Association
200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200)
I take an integrative approach, which really just means I pull from whatever actually works for you, some weeks that’s challenging the thoughts on repeat in your head, some weeks it’s being a little kinder to yourself, and some weeks it’s looking at whether you’ve eaten anything besides coffee since 7am.
Ready to work together?
Me too! Schedule a free intro call where we can chat for 10-15 minutes to see if we’d be a good fit!
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