About Alicia
Alicia Johnson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings a warm, straightforward style to therapy. She focuses on relationship struggles, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
Alicia aims to help people narrow the gap between the life they want and the life they currently live. She uses an approachable, client-centered way of working.
Sessions often start by listening to what matters most and then trying small, practical steps that feel doable. She offers strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and attachment-informed work when those fit the situation.
Her experience includes five years in clinical practice alongside periods caring for her own young family. That balance shaped a practical focus on coping with everyday pressures, compassion fatigue, and transitions that come with parenthood and career changes.
Alicia also addresses family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, abandonment and attachment concerns, and relationship hurts such as infidelity and communication problems. Clients can expect a relational, process-oriented approach.
The therapist pays attention to patterns in relationships and to how past losses or family roles affect present choices. She combines curiosity with skills-based tools - what she calls useful "brain hacks" - to help people build new responses to old problems.
Alicia works from South Carolina as a South Carolina LMFT and conducts sessions in English. She frames therapy as a collaborative path toward clearer goals and more manageable day-to-day living.
How online sessions use relational and practical methods
The therapist commonly blends attachment-informed work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps with intimacy, abandonment worries, and communication problems. Cognitive behavioral ideas focus on spotting thought patterns and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend a mix of methods. This is a collaborative process and the plan can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when nonverbal cues matter, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can fit short check-ins and busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments around parenting, work, or travel while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English