About Alicia
Alicia Dmochowski is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She aims to meet people where they are and tailor conversations and plans to individual needs.
Her work is direct and practical. Sessions center on clear goals and manageable steps. Alicia listens for what feels most pressing and adjusts the pace to match each person’s readiness.
Background and approach
She approaches difficult topics with respect and compassion. When trauma or past hurt comes up, she helps people name what happened and find ways to cope in day-to-day life. For worries and stress, she offers tools to reduce tension and improve daily functioning.
Alicia also supports people facing complex life situations, such as adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, and relationship communication problems. She pays attention to how these problems affect mood and behavior. Her style is collaborative - she invites feedback and adapts plans as progress unfolds.
The first step is a short intake to identify goals, then sessions focus on practical strategies and steady progress. She encourages small changes that add up over time.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Alicia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One approach emphasizes teaching concrete coping tools for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, behavioral experiments, and activity planning to reduce worry and improve daily routines. These techniques help when persistent worry or panic makes it hard to get through the day.Another approach focuses on trauma-informed work that helps people put words to painful experiences and develop safety and grounding strategies. This kind of work aims to reduce reactivity to reminders of past harm and increase capacity for calm in everyday situations.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Alicia will discuss options, listen to goals and preferences, and adjust methods as progress is made. She invites clients to give ongoing feedback so the plan fits their life and changes as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break or low-bandwidth needs, and messaging or chat can support brief check-ins and homework between sessions. These formats make it possible to access therapy from different locations and schedules while keeping work focused on the goals discussed with the therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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