Alicia Finigan, PACFA

Alicia Finigan is a licensed Australian counsellor with seven years of experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She practises an integrative psychotherapy approach, drawing from multiple evidence-based therapeutic techniques to create personalised care tailored to each client’s personality, needs, and goals. This flexible method enables collaborative work toward sustainable change and practical coping strategies.

Alicia specialises in stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on related concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, relationship and family conflict, substance use, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and difficulties arising from separation or divorce. Her practice frequently addresses complex presentations where co-morbidity and overlapping challenges are present.

Working with Alicia involves a compassionate, strengths-based process that recognises each person as the expert of their own story. She supports clients in building emotional resilience, developing healthier coping skills, and aligning day-to-day choices with personal values. Alicia is accredited with PACFA - the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia - and uses her clinical experience to guide clients through meaningful steps toward improved wellbeing.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Alicia uses an integrative model that blends evidence-informed techniques to meet individual needs. She employs skills-based approaches that help people identify unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and practise practical strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and day-to-day challenges. She also uses trauma-informed methods designed to help clients process past harm at a pace that feels manageable and to build stronger coping skills. In addition, attachment-focused work explores relationship patterns and helps people address abandonment, intimacy, and communication difficulties.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Alicia works collaboratively with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, adapting techniques over time so the treatment fits the person rather than forcing the person to fit a single method.

Online therapy with Alicia is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing sessions to fit into busy schedules and different lifestyles. These options make it easier to access consistent care from home or elsewhere, reduce travel time, and provide flexible ways to maintain progress between appointments.