Alicia Cooper , LCSW

Alicia Cooper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience supporting people through relationships, family transitions, and personal crises. She brings practical clinical training and a compassionate, strengths-based perspective to work with concerns such as intimacy and communication issues, parenting challenges, substance use, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Alicia emphasizes collaboration, helping clients identify their own resources and build skills that fit their life circumstances.

Her practice focuses on the complexities that arise in partnerships and families, including blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, and recovery from abandonment or separation. She also addresses co-occurring concerns like codependency, body image struggles, and sexual expression within alternative communities. Alicia combines evidence-informed methods with a client-centered stance to tailor interventions for each person she sees.

Alicia holds the LCSW credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and indicates professional training and licensure to provide clinical psychotherapy. She works from a place of respect for each client’s story and aims to illuminate practical steps toward greater resilience, improved relationships, and a more manageable daily life. Her approach seeks to balance short-term relief with long-term growth so clients can move forward with greater clarity and agency.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, guides clients to clarify personal values and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present. It is often helpful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions where values-driven choices matter.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and ongoing relationship patterns influence current connections. This approach can be useful for couples, family conflicts, attachment wounds, and intimacy-related challenges by exploring relational needs and rebuilding trust.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and developing practical skills to change them. CBT is commonly used for depression, anxiety, and coping with day-to-day stressors.

Finding the right fit is part of the work; the therapist collaborates with each person to decide which approach or combination of approaches aligns with their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what will be most useful for the individual.

Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support into a busy schedule or to connect from different locations. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent, ongoing care while accommodating varied communication styles and practical needs.