Dr. Alicia Moran

Dr. Alicia Moran is a licensed professional counselor with 29 years of experience. She centers her work on emotional intelligence to help people understand how past beliefs shape current feelings. She offers a calm space to talk and to choose different ways of coping instead of giving direct advice.

Her background includes long experience with trauma, addictions, and adolescent disorders, and she draws on several therapeutic styles. She describes an integrated approach that mixes rational emotive techniques, reality theory, psychodynamic ideas, and person-centered methods to meet each person where they are.

In sessions she focuses on practical choices rather than prescriptions. She helps people untangle guilt, shame, and triggers so they can respond instead of reacting. Topics she addresses include stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.

She also works with concerns such as communication problems, control issues, family of origin patterns, first responder stress, and social anxiety. People seeking clearer life purpose, forgiveness, or help with panic symptoms may find her approach relevant.

Dr. Moran practices in the District of Columbia and offers services in English. Her LPC credential is noted as SC LPC and AZ LPC in source materials. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online work

Dr. Moran uses evidence-based techniques that focus on emotions and practical choices. Rational emotive approaches look at the thoughts that fuel strong feelings and teach ways to test and shift unhelpful beliefs. This is useful for anxiety, anger, and panic symptoms because it targets the thinking that ramps up distress.

She also draws on person-centered methods that prioritize listening and helping each person find their own path. That approach helps with grief, low self-esteem, and life purpose by making space for the client to lead the conversation and try different responses.

Choosing the right method is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made.

If you want online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make fitting therapy into a busy day easier, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so appointments are simpler to keep. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to work effectively over distance while focusing on the issues you want to address.