Alicia Candeias
LAC | Licensed Associate Counselor (In Supervision toward Clinical Licensure)
Accepting Virtual & In-person appointments in Cherry Hill.
I understand how intimidating it can be to ask for help from someone outside of your circle – it’s new, and maybe it doesn’t feel quite safe. My goal is to provide you with a comfortable and calm space where your intricate journeys can be explored safely together. I seek to provide a holistic, culturally sensitive, and empathetic environment during our work together, and I welcome you into this space without judgement, regardless of who you are or the experiences that you have had in this life. Whether you are entering therapy with learned patterns, attention difficulties, emotional dysregulation, or a painful childhood, we will work together to help you regain your power through awareness of learned thoughts and behaviors. With authenticity and humor, I aim to help you to discern your relationships, thoughts, and feelings.
I enjoy working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, life transitions, grief & loss, post-partum, perinatal, infertility & pregnancy loss, and complex trauma. I hold my Ed.S. in Professional Counseling and MA in School Counseling from Seton Hall University, and have experience in school, agency, and private practice settings. As a woman and first-generation immigrant, I am passionate to help you understand how our cultural systems can hinder the beliefs we have about ourselves. However, I seek to empower your individuality and humanity using a trauma-informed lens and cultural sensitivity during our time together.
My fundamental therapeutic approaches are rooted in theories including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic, Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Somatic Therapy, Solution-focused Therapy, Polyvagal Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness-Based Practices, and experiential, creative-arts interventions.
Areas of Focus:
ADHD
Adolescents/teens
Anxiety
DBT
Depression
Emotion Regulation
grief & loss
Life transitions
OCD
Post-partum, Perinatal, Infertility & Pregnancy
Trauma
Women’s Health
I accept Aetna & Cigna insurances.
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