Alicia Gard , LMHC

Alicia Gard is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She has nine years of clinical experience helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. Alicia focuses on practical change and steady support rather than quick fixes. She meets people where they are and builds plans that fit each person’s life. Sessions often include learning new skills for emotion regulation, addressing unhelpful thinking, and practicing ways to respond differently to triggers. Alicia uses approaches that emphasize values, behavior change, and building healthier attachment patterns. Many clients come for help with relationships, family-of-origin issues, and complicated grief. She also works with people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and impulses that cause problems in daily life. Substance use and recovery are addressed directly with clear steps and support. Alicia’s style is calm, respectful, and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps set simple goals and practical steps. Sessions mix conversation, real-world exercises, and skills practice aimed at making day-to-day life more manageable. People seeking help with women’s issues may find her perspective relevant among her range of focus areas. To begin, she encourages filling out a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions that fit each person’s needs.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Alicia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. ACT often helps when someone feels stuck by anxiety, depression, or life changes and wants to live by clearer priorities.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Alicia will talk with each person about goals, what has helped or not helped before, and then try approaches that match those needs. She adjusts the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy work and skill practice, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging work well for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.