About Alicia
Alicia Woodrum is a licensed clinical social worker based in Maine with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and shifts in life circumstance. Her work centers on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more in control.
Alicia uses compassionate, collaborative sessions where clients set the pace. She listens for what matters most and helps translate that into small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and supporting self-esteem. Her background includes home and community work with young children and supports for their caregivers, outpatient therapy for pre-teens and teens, and work with adults and older adults. She has also supported people affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia and their caregivers.
This variety gives her experience across different life stages and challenges. Alicia draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions. That means she uses methods shown to help people manage symptoms and handle daily stressors.
Sessions aim to leave people with practical strategies they can use between meetings. People who come to Alicia often want clearer direction and tools they can try right away. She helps clients set realistic goals and track small wins.
Her approach is steady, clear, and focused on helping people move forward.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Alicia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide online sessions. She focuses on approaches that teach practical skills for managing mood and anxiety. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try alternative ways of thinking and behaving. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.Another frequently used approach emphasizes building problem-solving and coping skills through small experiments and practice between sessions. That helps people handle stressful moments, manage panic, and adjust during life transitions. Both approaches are practical and goal-oriented, aimed at producing changes people can use day to day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit a person’s needs, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process makes it easier to tailor sessions to each person’s goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English