About Alicia
Alicia Herman offers straightforward, goal-focused therapy for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, or life changes. She meets each person where they are and helps them clarify what matters most. Alicia uses clear steps so clients can make small, useful changes that add up over time.
She takes a collaborative, client-centered approach. Sessions focus on practical skills such as coping strategies, building self-esteem, and making choices that match personal values.
Background and approach
Alicia draws on several methods and adapts them to the client’s goals rather than following a single script. Alicia is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - working in Indiana with nine years of experience. Her background includes work with trauma, mood disorders, addictions, and concerns tied to life purpose and career transitions.
She pays attention to the whole picture including relationship patterns and emotional history. In the room she often combines techniques that help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with approaches that look at deeper patterns. That can mean learning new skills in one session and noticing long-standing themes in another.
The pace is set by the client’s needs and comfort. Many people choose Alicia for straightforward, compassionate help when life feels stuck. She helps people move toward clearer priorities, better coping, and realistic next steps.
Approach-driven care for online therapy
Alicia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills you can use between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and tackle day-to-day challenges.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people identify personal values and then take small, committed steps toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and decisions about work or relationships.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Alicia will talk about options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what fits a person’s needs and goals. She aims for a collaborative process so clients understand why a method is used and how it helps.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging can help people maintain momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent help while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English