Alecia Rager, LCSW

Alecia Rager is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with six years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through difficult transitions and crises. She maintains a private practice and brings prior experience from crisis units, rehabilitation and detox facilities, hospital trauma units, and emergency departments, as well as work with caregivers for people with neurocognitive disorders and with both adults and children in acute settings.

Alecia uses evidence-based methods to help clients build practical skills and move toward meaningful change. Her clinical toolkit includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, person-centered approaches, solution-focused strategies, and Motivational Interviewing. She emphasizes collaboration, working with each person to identify strengths and goals and to take steps that fit their life circumstances.

Alecia recognizes how isolating anxiety, depression, and trauma can feel and encourages vulnerability as the first step toward relief. She offers a respectful, non-judgmental space where clients can explore challenges, release burdens, and begin writing the next chapter of their lives. Her approach centers on helping people reconnect with the strengths that have carried them this far so they can pursue the life they want to live.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used to address anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills for managing symptoms and improving daily functioning.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes understanding each person from their own perspective and fostering a collaborative, empathic relationship. This approach supports self-exploration, strengthens self-esteem, and helps people find personally meaningful directions in life.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of thoughts and feelings. It can help reduce reactivity to stress and improve emotional regulation across a range of concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Alecia works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods align with their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts strategies as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit care into busy lives. Sessions with Alecia can be scheduled as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing people to choose the format that feels most accessible and practical for their situation.