About Alicia
Alicia Finigan helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also supports those struggling with self-esteem and major life changes. Alicia holds PACFA credentialing and has seven years of experience in counselling work across these issues.
Alicia uses an integrative psychotherapy style. She draws on multiple evidence-based techniques and chooses what fits each person. Sessions are collaborative and practical, focused on small steps that add up to real change.
How Alicia works
People come to her for help with relationship wounds such as abandonment and attachment issues, or patterns like codependency and avoidant personality traits. She also addresses blended family issues, communication and commitment problems, and the emotional strain of caregiving. Alicia works with people dealing with substance use, domestic violence impacts, divorce and separation, and the emptiness that can follow major life shifts.
Her approach targets both symptoms and the underlying patterns that keep problems repeating. In sessions she emphasises skill-building for managing anxiety, regulating emotion, and improving communication. Therapy is paced to each person’s needs and aims to strengthen resilience and clear decision-making.
Alicia describes therapy as a partnership that draws on the client’s own strengths. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Alicia aims to make that step straightforward. She offers a calm, practical approach that helps people move from feeling stuck to feeling more capable and steady in daily life.
What Alicia works with
The areas below are the ones Alicia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Alicia applies therapy online and by phone
Alicia describes her work as integrative, so online sessions use a mix of evidence-based techniques tailored to the person. For example, cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning new coping skills; they help with anxiety, stress and low self-esteem. Trauma-informed methods look at how past harm affects present feelings and relationships and aim to build safety and emotional regulation skills.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Alicia works collaboratively to choose techniques that match a person’s goals, personality and situation. She checks in regularly and adapts methods as therapy progresses so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, giving practical options for different needs. Video calls suit deeper conversations and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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