About Lucia
Lucia Stanfield greets people with a calm, steady presence and clear experience. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 20 years of clinical work. Lucia helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and other life stresses.
She focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control. Clients will find a direct but compassionate style.
Background and approach
Lucia listens closely to each person's story and points out patterns that get in the way of feeling better. She offers tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and changing unhelpful habits. Sessions are focused on what the person wants to change in day-to-day life.
Her work draws on several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current trust and intimacy. These methods are adapted to fit each person's needs rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Lucia has a long history helping people through trauma, parenting stresses, identity concerns, and workplace strain. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and complex grief. Her goal is to help people build skills that last beyond therapy.
People may connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lucia accepts clients in English and works with international clients as well. Getting started begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Lucia often integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy into her online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying new strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleeping issues, and anger. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that reflect their values, which is useful for stress, grief, addiction, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lucia will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and personal style. That process involves checking what helps, adjusting techniques over time, and combining approaches when that makes sense for the client.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deep work and teaching new skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is a challenge, and quick live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a tight schedule. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English