Alicia Cunningham, LPC

Alicia Cunningham is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship and family concerns, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and related life transitions. She frames counseling as a partnership and focuses on helping clients reconnect with themselves and gain more control over daily life.

Alicia emphasizes rebuilding relationships and improving self-esteem through practical skills. Sessions are meant to be a judgement-free place to talk about what feels hard. She uses conversations to identify coping strategies and build new patterns that fit each person's life.

Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take small, meaningful steps. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas shape work on closeness and trust. The client-centered stance keeps the person’s goals central.

With 10 years of experience, Alicia mixes goal-focused work with room for emotion. She supports people through major life changes such as divorce, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and loss. She also addresses concerns like codependency, commitment and control issues, and communication problems.

Alicia works in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. She invites people to approach therapy as a collaborative process where the therapist and client decide what will help most.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, sleeping issues, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of closeness and trust and can guide work on relationship and intimacy-related struggles.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Alicia works together with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration can include trying a technique for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow a quicker check-in during a work break. It can also make sessions less dependent on local providers, which helps people access a licensed professional whose approach matches their goals.