Alicia Gard

Alicia Gard is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling stuck by focusing on how thoughts, reactions, and daily habits affect their mood and behavior. Many clients come for help with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and issues tied to addiction or trauma.

She builds a therapy plan around each person rather than following a fixed method. Sessions often include practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and tools drawn from dialectical behavior therapy. Attachment-based ideas and client-centered conversation shape how she explores relationships, grief, and self-worth.

Alicia takes a straightforward and respectful approach. She listens first, then works with clients to try small, doable changes. She also addresses impulsivity, communication problems, and patterns that come from early relationships or family of origin concerns.

For people coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, or long-term mood shifts like bipolar symptoms, she focuses on pacing and practical strategies. Substance use and addiction are addressed alongside co-occurring problems such as dissociation or codependency, with attention to concrete steps forward.

If you want a therapist who emphasizes personal fit and clear techniques, she helps people identify what matters and then practices it together in sessions. To begin, prospective clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Alicia uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on specific strategies like identifying thought patterns and practicing new responses, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger.

She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationship experiences affect current reactions. This approach helps people understand patterns in close relationships and work toward more stable ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that match goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying strategies, checking how they feel, and adjusting the plan over time.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing more flexible scheduling. It can also let people use shorter check-ins when days are hectic, or choose an appointment that does not require being on camera. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.