About Alicia
Alicia Cunningham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns. She offers straightforward support for addiction, trauma, parenting strain, work stress, and problems with sleep or self-esteem. Alicia aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what’s hard and start making practical changes.
Alicia uses a mix of approaches to meet everyday needs.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. She also uses emotion-focused work to help people name and move through strong feelings. Attachment-based ideas inform her work when past relationships affect present struggles.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) tools help clients notice values and take small steps toward them. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented rather than highly technical. Over ten years of counseling experience guide her choices in session.
Clients can expect clear feedback, skill-building exercises, and check-ins on progress. Alicia treats each person as an individual and adjusts pace to what they can handle. She offers multiple formats for contact, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Alicia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress. CBT offers concrete exercises and practice tasks that work well over video or messaging and help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which focuses on clarifying values and taking small, consistent steps toward them. ACT helps people tolerate difficult thoughts while still moving toward what matters to them, a useful focus when life feels overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Alicia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together she adapts techniques so they fit the client’s life and rhythm rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and guided exercises, while phone calls can fit into a work break or low-bandwidth situation. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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