Alicia Bellman, LMHC

Alicia Bellman is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and major life changes. Alicia draws on practical skills and steady support to help people take the first steps toward feeling better.

Before becoming a counselor she worked as a nurse and served as a military spouse, experiences that shape her approach to care. She also has lived with paraplegia for 25 years and speaks from personal experience about adapting to a changed life. Those experiences inform her understanding of caregiver strain, first responder concerns, and compassion fatigue.

Alicia uses a mix of techniques in sessions. She blends client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused techniques. She explains skills, practices them together with clients, and adjusts plans based on what is actually helping.

Sessions aim to be respectful and direct. Alicia emphasizes clear, manageable steps for coping with chronic pain, codependency, family of origin issues, isolation, and feelings of emptiness. She encourages work on communication problems, impulsivity, forgiveness, and finding life purpose.

Her work is pragmatic and person-focused. Alicia tailors therapy to each person’s needs, using talk, skill-building, and psychoeducation to support steady change. People who want a collaborative, down-to-earth counselor may find her style helpful.

How Alicia's approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and tailoring conversations to the person in front of the therapist. It helps people process difficult experiences and feel heard while deciding what changes they want to make.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to teach practical skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Sessions often include homework and real-world practice to build new habits.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for handling intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships. It can help with impulsivity, intense emotional reactions, and chronic stress.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Alicia will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust what they do together based on what helps most.

Confirm the therapist's current session formats before booking, since they are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins on a workday. It also lets people practice skills in their everyday settings and bring real situations into sessions for immediate feedback.