About Acea
Acea Starks greets people with a direct, down-to-earth style. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood instability, and identity concerns. She also supports those navigating relationship and intimacy questions, addiction, sleeping and eating problems, ADHD, and trauma-related issues.
Acea uses straightforward goals and practical tools in sessions. She emphasizes setting achievable steps and checking progress regularly. Her style blends client-centered conversations with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when useful.
How Acea works
She brings 11 years of clinical experience and holds licenses as a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LPC and LCMHC. Her work has touched a wide range of personal and cultural concerns, including gender dysphoria, LGBT issues, multicultural topics, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Acea values self-care and balance outside of work.
She is candid about a non-traditional personal style and uses plain language in sessions. If something she says doesn't land, she invites clients to say so and she will rephrase. Her background includes a path into mental health that began later in life after studies in English and nursing, followed by degrees in psychology and a master’s in mental health counseling.
That varied journey informs a flexible, empathetic approach to problems people bring into therapy.
Acea lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Acea works with
The areas below are the ones Acea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acea often uses client-centered therapy to ground sessions in each person’s priorities. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to the client, and shaping sessions around their goals. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk through identity, relationship, or life change concerns.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT offers concrete steps and skills to change patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, or trouble sleeping. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed to manage intense feelings.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, try out strategies, and adjust plans based on what helps most. The aim is to build skills and reach clear goals together, not to stick rigidly to one method.
Online therapy makes these methods more accessible. Video calls let visual connection and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a short check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick reflections, homework check-ins, or ongoing support between sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.
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