About Alicia
Alicia Foley is a licensed independent social worker who helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and more manageable. She commonly works with concerns like trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD symptoms, stress, parenting challenges, and relationship difficulties.
She practices with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.
Background and approach
Alicia adapts conversations and plans to fit an individual's needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach. Alicia has four years of experience as a social worker and holds an LISW, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker.
Her background includes work with child welfare and services related to adoption and foster care, and she brings that perspective to helping young adults and parents navigate difficult transitions. In sessions she listens for practical patterns and helps people try different coping strategies.
That may mean working on day-to-day routines, managing anger or stress, improving confidence, or addressing trauma responses in bite-sized steps. She encourages small, achievable goals that add up over time. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Alicia aims to make the process clear and steady.
She supports people through decision points like parenting challenges, relationship strain, or changes tied to adoption and foster care experience.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alicia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, then practice small experiments to test new ways of coping. This can be useful for anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem.Another approach centers on working through the effects of trauma and abuse at a manageable pace. It emphasizes building safety, learning grounding skills, and gradually addressing painful memories so daily functioning improves over time. This method often supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, or adoption-related concerns.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to match techniques to goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made. That way therapy fits the person, not the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text let people check in between sessions or fit short conversations into a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work on anxiety, trauma, and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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