About Alicia
Alicia Gard is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. Alicia aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can start to feel understood and take steps forward.
She begins by getting to know each person and their story. Sessions focus on practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, improve emotional regulation, and rebuild confidence.
Background and approach
Alicia draws on several evidence-based approaches and adapts them to fit what each client needs. Clients may work on coping skills for overwhelming feelings, tools for managing impulsivity, or strategies to address substance use and relapse risk. She also helps people process grief, work through attachment and family-of-origin issues, and reduce the impact of shame or guilt on daily life.
Alicia uses cognitive approaches to identify thinking patterns, acceptance-oriented methods to increase willingness around difficult feelings, and techniques to strengthen emotional awareness and connection. She values collaboration and invites clients to be part of planning their care. Sessions can include short-term skill-building or longer-term work depending on the concern.
Alicia offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approach-driven care through online counseling
Alicia commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and skill-focused, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and impulsivity.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches people how to make room for difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful values and actions. That approach can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alicia collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She may blend tools from different approaches and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller therapy conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be useful for short check-ins or when scheduling is tight. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping a consistent course of care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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