About — True Connection

About Ariel

Ariel Frager believes in the power of connection. She created True Connection Parent Coaching & Therapy to help foster deep connections between parents and children that can weather any storm whether it be a family transition, school change or the many tempests of adolescence. Ariel has worked with children and parents as a teacher, as a Licensed Professional Counselor and as a school counselor for the past twenty plus years. Her work with families is grounded in therapeutic and mindfulness based practices. She completed the Mindful Schools certification program and is a Registered Art Therapist.

Ariel loves to travel, hike, bike, cook and hang out with loved ones. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

She is an especially supportive advocate for LGBT+ kids and their families.

My family has worked with Ariel for five years. She’s helped us reach important social and emotional goals through problem solving, strategy and mindfulness.

— Anonymous to protect child’s privacy

She is an especially supportive advocate for LGBT+ kids and their families.

She helped us navigate some of the most disheartening and frustrating situations concerning our children at school.

Ariel was an enormous help to our family during our grade school years. She encouraged me in how to best advocate for them and was a calming voice that took the time to see our kids as whole people who were in process and not as bad kids for their struggling.

— Tammy Comer

She helped us navigate some of the most disheartening and frustrating situations concerning our children at school.

Ariel has given me some excellent parenting strategies.

She is caring and always follows up.

— AJ

Ariel has given me some excellent parenting strategies.