April Medici
Compassionate, practical mental health support
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About April
April Medici is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy approachable for people feeling overwhelmed. Located in Florida, she focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and many life changes that commonly affect daily parenting and family life.
Her early career began in education as a special education teacher and guidance counselor with the City University of New York system.
Background and approach
That time working in schools shaped her interest in practical support and hands-on problem solving. She later completed a master’s degree in counselor education and pursued clinical work in trauma and related areas. In sessions she uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-first space.
She blends that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolkit for helping people find internal reasons to change. April describes the relationship between client and therapist as the key part of work together.
She draws on decades of experience to offer straightforward strategies, gentle challenge, and collaborative goal setting. Her style aims to be practical rather than technical so parents can use changes right away. For people juggling parenting demands, work, and emotional strain, she offers clear steps and ongoing support.
The practice emphasizes real-life coping skills, problem solving, and steady progress tailored to each person’s goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what each person needs. In online sessions this means the therapist prioritizes understanding your concerns and follows your pace, whether you prefer talking or using messages. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. Online CBT uses conversations and simple at-home exercises to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That choice can shift over time as needs and progress change, and adjustments are made based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options help people fit therapy around parenting, work, and other responsibilities by removing travel time and allowing varied ways to communicate. Many clients use a mix of formats depending on what the moment requires, which makes ongoing care more manageable.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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