Alicia Gard, LMHC

Alicia Gard is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, licensed in Florida with nine years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anger, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood concerns. She also lists blended family issues among her focus areas and helps people dealing with relationship and family tensions.

Alicia favors clear, practical work in sessions. She talks through how thoughts and behaviors connect and looks for small changes that make daily life easier. She uses cognitive approaches alongside acceptance-based and emotion-focused ideas to help people manage symptoms and respond differently to triggers.

Her background includes substantial experience with grief, substance use, and trauma-related problems. Alicia draws on a mix of strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Those methods guide how she structures sessions and homework, rather than following a single fixed model.

In a first meeting she focuses on understanding immediate concerns and practical goals. Sessions usually cover coping skills, problem-solving, and communication patterns that affect daily routines and relationships. Her aim is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes.

People who come for help often want straightforward tools for handling stress, managing strong emotions, and improving interactions at home. Alicia asks about current routines, relationship roles, and prior treatment to shape sensible next steps and a working plan.