About Alicia
Alicia Bellman uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with seven years of professional experience. Alicia speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and hopeful.
Alicia draws on her background as a retired nurse and as a military spouse to inform her work with first responders and active and retired military.
Background and approach
She also understands the long process of adjusting after a major physical change, having been paraplegic for 25 years. These experiences shape how she listens and responds to practical struggles. Her style combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, solution-focused techniques, and talk therapy.
She uses these methods to help people identify patterns, learn new coping skills, and try small changes that make daily life more manageable. Alicia pays attention to compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and related concerns like isolation, codependency, and family of origin issues. She works with impulses, feelings of emptiness, and questions about life purpose in clear, goal-oriented sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Alicia aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space and tailors conversation and treatment plans to each person's needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alicia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into smaller, practiceable steps. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that reduce impulsivity and overwhelm.Her work is collaborative - she will help clients choose the approaches that fit their needs and goals. Together they decide what to try first and check progress as they go, adjusting tools and focus when something isn’t working. The therapist-client partnership guides which techniques are used and how sessions unfold.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what suits their routine. Video works well for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or times when a shorter touchpoint helps. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or medical needs while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English