- Personalized treatment plans
- Skills for everyday life
- Focus on relationships
About Alicia
Alicia Gard is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with nine years of clinical experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical changes in thinking and behavior. Alicia commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges like addiction, grief, and ADHD-related struggles. She also addresses relationship struggles and codependency concerns that often come up alongside other issues.
Her background includes work with trauma, substance use, and unresolved loss. Alicia favors a personalized plan rather than a one-size-fits-all method. She combines tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical skills with attachment-focused ideas to address how past relationships shape current patterns.
In sessions she keeps the tone compassionate and direct. Conversations aim to identify what’s getting in the way, build coping skills, and try new ways of responding. She uses client-centered listening to understand each person’s priorities and life context before choosing techniques.
Alicia helps people practice concrete skills such as emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and flexible thinking. She also works on communication patterns and boundaries when relationship issues or codependency are present. Progress is tracked through small, measurable steps rather than vague promises.
People who prefer a therapist who listens, offers clear tools, and adapts therapy to everyday life may find her approach useful. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
How her approaches translate to online work
Alicia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems where thoughts and actions keep problems going.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and trust. This work helps when people struggle with closeness, abandonment fears, or codependency. Client-centered therapy is another base of her work and means she listens closely to each person and follows their goals rather than imposing a fixed agenda.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Alicia collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. She adapts tools over time when something is not working and checks in about progress and pacing.
Session formats are not listed here, so confirm current options before booking to know what is offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, avoid travel time, and use shorter check-ins when needed. It also allows practicing skills in real-life settings between sessions and bringing specific everyday situations into the conversation for immediate feedback.
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Experience
9+ years
Credentials
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
Alicia helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, anger, ADHD, and related challenges. She also works on issues like codependency, attachment difficulties, and family of origin problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She takes a compassionate, direct approach and builds individualized plans. Sessions combine active listening with practical skills and behavioral strategies.
What is her clinical background?
She has nine years of experience providing psychotherapy and has worked with people facing substance use, trauma, unresolved loss, and mood concerns.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, licensed in Florida and practices with that credential.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are provided to those within her jurisdiction in Florida.
How are costs and billing handled?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability; services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do prospective clients begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.