About Alecia
Alecia Rager is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She works with issues like trauma, grief, addiction, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Alecia centers care on practical steps people can use right away.
She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Alecia brings nine years of clinical experience in a range of settings. Her background includes work in hospital trauma units, emergency departments, rehab and detox facilities, and crisis units.
Background and approach
She has also supported caregivers of people with neurocognitive disorders and worked with clients involved in foster or adoption situations. Her approach mixes well-known, evidence-informed methods. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and on client-centered practices to follow each person's pace.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, and mindfulness skills teach calming practices for daily life. Alecia aims to collaborate so people feel stronger and more capable. Sessions focus on what the person needs now - from symptom relief to managing relationships and life transitions.
She emphasizes small, doable steps that add up over time. People considering therapy will find clear guidance on how to begin. Alecia describes therapy as a shared process that begins with honest conversation and practical planning.
She helps people craft a next chapter while respecting the strengths that brought them this far.
How Alecia's Approaches Work Online
Alecia draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and teaching practical skills to change them. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together the therapist and client try methods, adjust as needed, and pick what feels most helpful for daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and use worksheets together. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps reflection. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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