Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Alicia works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Years in practice
- 26
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Alicia
Alicia Colon is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than two decades of practice in Massachusetts. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people use their strengths to make practical changes.
She believes the person in therapy knows their story best. Sessions aim to build on existing strengths and increase motivation.
Background and approach
Alicia helps people set small, achievable goals and works with them to try new ways of coping when old patterns no longer help. Her experience spans many concerns that affect daily life. She addresses sleep problems, intimacy-related worries, parenting stress, career questions, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
Alicia also works with people facing compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, attention challenges, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. Practical tools and clear conversation are a central part of her work. She helps people notice triggers for anger or impulsive reactions and develops step-by-step plans to respond differently.
She also supports people processing loss, family conflict, blended family adjustments, and fertility or caregiving challenges. Alicia takes a respectful, steady approach. She offers a calm space to talk things through, build coping skills, and practice new behaviors.
The goal is to help people leave sessions with concrete ideas they can try between meetings.
What Alicia works with
Everything Alicia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Alicia's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Alicia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method teaches people how thoughts and behaviors connect and then builds new coping steps to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. This approach helps with anger, low mood, and trouble sleeping by breaking problems into manageable pieces.Another helpful method focuses on processing difficult experiences gently and safely. It supports people working through trauma, relationship wounds, or ongoing stress by naming patterns, learning new responses, and practicing them in daily life. This work is aimed at reducing reactivity and improving emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alicia will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans when something is not working.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging helps with short reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try strategies in real time.
Questions people ask about Alicia
What kinds of issues does she address?
Alicia helps people with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and coping with life changes.
What is her approach to therapy like?
Her style is practical and strengths-based, focusing on small goals and step-by-step skills to change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 26 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, MA LICSW, practicing in Massachusetts.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.