About Alicia
Alicia Colon is a LICSW with 26 years of clinical experience helping people navigate difficult life moments. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more capable. Her work often centers on relationship strain, mood concerns, anxiety, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.
She listens for each person's strengths and priorities. Alicia uses straightforward conversation and collaborative planning to turn goals into small, achievable steps. She encourages people to notice what already works and to build on it.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term practice in Massachusetts across a range of common concerns. She has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, sleep problems, and stress from caregiving or career change. Her experience also covers mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, and issues that affect intimacy and communication.
Alicia addresses practical problems like impulsivity, isolation, parenting strain, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress. She also helps with fertility-related distress, grief over aging relatives, and the wear of compassion fatigue. Sessions aim to clarify priorities and create manageable plans for day-to-day life.
People meet Alicia for honest, calm conversations about what matters to them now. She guides clients toward clearer routines, better communication, and steady coping tools. Her practice balances real-world problem solving with steady emotional support.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Alicia uses evidence-based techniques to help people change habits and manage mood. One common approach focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going, then testing small behavior changes to see what helps. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and attention-related difficulties.Another approach centers on skills for emotion regulation and managing impulses. It teaches concrete strategies for calming the body, slowing reactions, and creating clearer routines - tools that can help with anger, impulsivity, and ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alicia treats the choice of methods as collaborative, adjusting techniques to fit a person’s goals and everyday life. She listens to what has worked in the past and tailors plans so they are doable between sessions.
Online care offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging helps people reflect between appointments. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, and travel while still using consistent therapeutic tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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