Alecia Rager , LCSW

Alecia Rager is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with nine years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, and families. She maintains a private practice and brings a background that includes work in crisis units, rehabilitation and detox facilities, hospital trauma units, emergency departments, and support for caregivers of people with neurocognitive disorders.

Alecia draws on a range of evidence-based and relational approaches to tailor care to each person s needs. Her clinical toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. As an LCSW she blends structured techniques with collaborative, strength-based work to help clients identify values, build coping skills, and move toward meaningful change.

Her clinical focus covers stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, LGBT concerns, family issues, grief, intimacy challenges, parenting, self-esteem, career transitions, coping with life changes, and ADHD. Additional areas of attention include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and other complex life concerns.

Alecia approaches therapy with empathy and a belief that vulnerability opens the door to transformation. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can release burdens, reconnect with their strengths, and begin the next chapter of their lives on their own terms.

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