About Alicia
Alicia Powell, LCSW, LMHC helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. She writes plainly and focuses on clear steps that can reduce worry and restore everyday functioning. Her work is practical and direct, aimed at people who want tools they can use right away.
She has more than 25 years in the mental health field, with licensure as a clinical social worker and a licensed mental health counselor.
Background and approach
Alicia has supported people managing trauma, depression, eating concerns, ADHD, and anger. She also has experience assisting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Alicia uses several approaches to build a therapy plan.
She leans on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She blends client-centered listening with skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to change thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices are also part of sessions when they fit a person’s needs.
She is comfortable addressing practical stressors too, including financial worries, and has completed a financial coaching training that guides conversations about money-related anxiety. Alicia emphasizes collaboration - people help set their goals and choose the pace of work. Sessions aim to be straightforward and geared toward everyday life.
Alicia practices in Idaho and offers multiple online session formats to match different schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Alicia uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early and important relationships influence current reactions and relationship patterns. This approach helps people understand why they respond a certain way to closeness, loss, or conflict and supports efforts to form healthier connections.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or depression. CBT offers concrete exercises and homework that a person can practice between sessions to see steady progress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills appear when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness are priorities; those skills are taught in short, practical steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist works together with each person to set goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to focus on the problems the person wants to solve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls let people read facial cues and use shared exercises, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or keeping continuity between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for using methods that match each person's comfort and routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Washington
- Languages
- English
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