About Alicia
Alicia Powell is a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Idaho. She brings 26 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and trauma. Alicia speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel manageable for someone who is overwhelmed or unsure where to start.
She focuses on practical goals clients set together. Alicia invites people to help shape their own treatment plan so the work matches real life needs.
Background and approach
Sessions typically center on everyday problems like work stress, relationship strain, parenting pressure, or coping after loss. Alicia uses a mix of approaches depending on the concern. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
She uses cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Mindfulness and dialectical skills help with emotion regulation and staying present during distress. Her background includes long experience with trauma, anxiety, eating concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She has also worked with people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. Alicia can discuss financial stress and use coaching tools when money worries are part of the problem. People who choose her often want a straightforward, collaborative style.
She prefers clear goals and steady progress rather than long, vague therapy plans. Alicia works with each person at their own pace and adjusts methods as needed.
How Alicia’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and patterns. Online sessions can be used to notice repeating patterns in how someone connects, and then try new ways of relating in day-to-day life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. In remote work, CBT often uses short between-session tasks and practical experiments to build new routines and skills. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. These techniques are easy to practice during calls or through short written exercises between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can shift over time, with regular check-ins to see what helps and what needs adjusting.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation without travel time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or have shorter, focused conversations during a lunch break. Together these options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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