About Alicia
Alicia Betancourt is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on practical steps to improve day-to-day coping. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at people who feel stuck and need a plan to move forward.
Alicia concentrates on common life concerns like grief, low self-esteem, depression, anger, and career stress. She also addresses issues such as bipolar conditions, ADHD, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize finding personal strengths and building simple skills that can be used right away. Her work covers relationship concerns, support for parents around fatherhood issues, and challenges tied to blended families and codependency. She also brings experience with aging and geriatric issues, traumatic brain injury, and a range of personality-related challenges.
Alicia pays attention to cultural and multicultural concerns when they are part of a person’s story. People who want different ways to connect can talk with her by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Alicia prefers to create a clear, achievable plan during the first few sessions and then adapt it as progress is made.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Her practice is based in Florida and sessions are held in English. She aims to help people identify strengths, reduce symptoms of anxiety and stress, and build routines that support better day-to-day functioning.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Alicia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life changes and coping skills. One approach emphasizes step-by-step skill building to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning; it teaches specific tools people can use when they feel overwhelmed. Another approach concentrates on problem solving and planning to manage stress and life transitions; sessions identify concrete goals and break them into manageable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alicia collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is helpful, and she involves the client in choosing pacing and targets for change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow a face-to-face style conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while working toward clearer routines and reduced anxiety.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Fatherhood issues
- Hearing impaired
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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