About Felicia
Felicia Ponce is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. She focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting struggles, and questions about intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She brings 14 years of experience to her work and has practiced in community mental health, school settings, and independent practice. Early in her career she worked in a non-profit clinic with children and families and later provided school-based mental health services in a high school district.
Felicia uses a person-centered style in sessions. She stays curious about each person’s experience and encourages clients to find their own solutions.
She describes herself as laid back and collaborative, aiming to make the session feel like the client’s hour. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Attachment-based ideas and mindfulness practices are used when helpful to improve relationships and reduce stress. Motivational interviewing helps when people are ready to make changes but feel uncertain about how to start.
She has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology courses at a California State University, and she values learning from each workplace and each client. Felicia emphasizes trauma-informed care and works to create a sense of safety while people talk through difficult experiences.
Clients work together with her to set goals, try practical strategies, and track small changes. Felicia aims to support people as they move toward feeling more capable and connected.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Felicia combines person-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients make practical changes. Person-centered therapy means she will listen closely, follow the client’s lead, and support them in discovering what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.She treats choosing the right approach as a shared process. Together with clients she reviews needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts methods as therapy progresses. That collaborative planning helps shape clear goals and small, measurable steps toward change.
The online formats she offers include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins or focused problem-solving, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use different formats for different needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English