Althea Sawyers, LMFT
Practical therapy for feeling unstuck and managing anger
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Althea works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Althea
Althea Sawyers is a Florida Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. She offers direct, practical help for people feeling stuck by anxiety, anger, depression, grief, and relationship stress. Her style is warm and focused, aimed at helping clients move toward clearer goals and steadier days.
Many clients come with trauma, self-esteem struggles, sleep or eating concerns, or the strain of caregiving and chronic illness.
Background and approach
Althea uses straightforward methods to break problems into manageable steps. Sessions look at what is keeping someone stuck and build clear skills to cope and recover a sense of control. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's own goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and swap in more useful habits. Mindfulness tools and brief solution-focused steps are used to calm strong feelings and set practical next moves. Althea blends hypnotherapy when appropriate to help access relaxed focus for habit change or trauma processing.
She helps people tackle anger, intimacy concerns, career stress, and life transitions in ways that fit their lives. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are available online and by phone, chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
Prospective clients in Florida can start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
What Althea works with
Everything Althea lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Althea's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Althea lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and building a trusting, respectful working relationship. It helps people set directions that matter to them and guides conversations toward practical change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches skills to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with more useful habits, which can reduce anxiety, anger, and low mood.
Hypnotherapy is used as a tool for relaxed focus and guided suggestion to support habit change or to help process traumatic material at a gentler pace. It is offered alongside talking therapies when it fits a client's goals.
Choosing the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk through options, try methods that fit a person's needs, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. That way each client helps shape the path forward.
Online care makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls work well for in-depth sessions, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is a concern, live chat suits quick check-ins or shorter conversations, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make regular work on goals more practical and consistent.
Questions people ask about Althea
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, relationship strain, self-esteem, trauma and related issues like eating and sleeping difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and practical. She focuses on concrete skills, goal setting, and short-term strategies to reduce distress and build coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience as a practicing therapist in varied clinical settings.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Florida Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - and is based in Florida.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can she work with international clients?
She is not currently working with international clients and provides services to people located in Florida.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs and starting set up?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.