About Felicia
Felicia Ponce is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship and parenting challenges. Her style is relaxed and respectful, and she aims to make therapy feel like a team effort.
Felicia draws from a person-centered approach to keep sessions focused on each person's experience. She stays curious and encourages clients to notice their own strengths.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas and mindfulness tools also appear in her work when they fit a client's needs. Her background includes work in a non-profit clinic serving children and families and four years delivering school-based mental health services for a high school district.
She has also taught undergraduate and graduate psychology courses as an adjunct lecturer at a California State University. Those roles shaped her practical approach to common life challenges. In sessions Felicia prioritizes creating a calm, safe feeling so clients can talk openly.
She describes herself as somewhat laid back and believes clients are the experts on their lives. Goals and next steps are decided together so therapy stays focused and useful. Felicia has worked with a wide range of concerns including addictions, eating issues, intimacy-related struggles, self-esteem, career changes, ADHD, and LGBT-related matters.
She frames treatment around each person's goals and the skills they want to build.
Therapeutic approaches and what online sessions can offer
Felicia uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's experience. This approach means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients notice their own strengths and choices. It works well for people who want a supportive space to talk through feelings and life decisions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify thoughts and patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT uses practical exercises and small experiments to try new ways of thinking and behaving, which can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Felicia will collaborate with each person to decide what methods fit their goals, values, and daily life. She adapts tools from different approaches so the plan feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat suit brief updates, reflective writing between sessions, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help clients fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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