About Alecia
Alecia Rager is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports people facing addictions, grief, parenting strain, career decisions, ADHD, and LGBT-related issues. Alecia works with a wide range of life changes and struggles where people feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Alecia practices in Florida and brings nine years of clinical experience to her work.
How Alecia works
She has worked in hospital trauma units, emergency departments, rehab and detox settings, and with caregivers of people who have neurocognitive disorders. Her breadth of experience informs practical, grounded help for everyday problems and crises. In sessions she focuses on collaboration and practical strategies.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, existential reflection, and mindfulness practices to help people notice what matters and make small, doable changes. Sessions are aimed at building skills, clarifying values, and reducing unhelpful patterns. Alecia emphasizes a direct and compassionate style.
She invites vulnerability as the start of change and centers each person’s strengths. Conversations are straightforward and supportive, with attention to real-world coping and decision making. She offers several online formats for care including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Alecia lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Alecia works with
The areas below are the ones Alecia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Alecia’s approaches work online
Alecia often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments that change feelings and behavior. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with mood swings.She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas which focus on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them, even when uncomfortable feelings remain. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help people notice thoughts and bodily responses without immediate reactivity.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. Alecia works together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most in real situations.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises, phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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