About Alicia
Alicia Fowler, LMSW, helps adults who feel stuck by anxiety, trauma, or painful family patterns. She meets people who are exhausted from people-pleasing, overthinking, or caretaking to the point of losing themselves. Her style is calm and direct, aiming to make small changes that add up to real relief.
Alicia focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions. She talks through ways to set limits, manage overwhelming emotions, and shift long-standing habits.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with relationship wounds, grief, or the fallout from controlling or neglectful family dynamics. Her work blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and other methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That mix is used to build emotion skills, notice unhelpful thinking, and strengthen relationships with yourself and others.
Sessions usually move at a steady pace with room for concrete exercises and reflection. Over eleven years of practice, she has worked with people facing chronic stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD concerns, and complex grief. Alicia emphasizes collaboration and keeps goals practical and values-driven.
She supports people who want to move from surviving to having more choice in how they live. Therapy with Alicia centers on reclaiming a sense of agency and rebuilding trust in your own decisions. Work is aimed at making everyday life more manageable and more aligned with what matters most to you.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clearer about what matters and take small actions toward those values while noticing difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding emotional patterns in relationships and building stronger emotional connections with yourself and others. It can help with relationship wounds and attachment-related struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) addresses unhelpful thinking and teaches practical skills to change behavior and reduce distress in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods as needed. That shared process makes it easier to find what helps most, whether the focus is on emotion skills, values-driven action, or changing thought patterns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use face-to-face interaction for skills practice and eye contact. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, tracking progress between sessions, or getting support when a quick exchange fits the day. These options make scheduling more flexible and let therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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