Alicia Johnson
Practical, relational therapy for families and parents
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alicia
Alicia Johnson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in South Carolina. She brings a warm, client-centered style to sessions and focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationship and personal struggles. Her approach is down-to-earth and practical, aimed at helping parents and partners find workable changes for daily life.
Her background includes a BS in Psychology and an MA in Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Counseling.
Background and approach
Alicia has about five years of professional experience as an LMFT. She balances clinical work with family life and draws on real-world parenting experience when talking through challenges with clients. Alicia uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how relationships affect feelings and behavior.
She also borrows techniques from cognitive behavioral work to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Emotionally focused methods guide conversations about closeness and repair in relationships. In session she tends to be curious, compassionate, and practical.
She often offers simple tools or small experiments to try between meetings. Conversations are paced to meet people where they are, not to force rapid change. Parents and partners who want straightforward help with communication, blended family issues, parenting stress, or the fallout from past hurts may find her style useful.
Alicia aims to help people reduce overwhelm, improve connection, and make clearer choices about their next steps.
Approaches that guide online family and relationship work
Alicia draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and behavior. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or repeated conflict are getting in the way of connection.She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and meeting people where they are. That means the therapist follows the client's pace and priorities rather than imposing a fixed plan.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new responses. These tools are practical and often helpful for stress, anxiety, and problem-solving around daily parenting or relationship tasks.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work. Alicia treats the process as collaborative and will help figure out which methods fit a client's needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is actually helping.
Online therapy allows the same therapeutic approaches to be used through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, try short check-ins, or use written checklists and exercises between meetings. The variety of formats supports flexibility and ongoing connection with a licensed professional regardless of where someone is located.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Alicia
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point