{"id":718,"date":"2023-05-13T18:50:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2023-09-15T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:41:41","slug":"alicia-fitzsimons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/alicia-fitzsimons\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Fitzsimons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alicia Fitzsimons is a licensed professional counselor providing therapy services to adults of all ages. Alicia uses a strengths-based approach with her clients, helping them notice and access their strengths in addition to modifying unhelpful thought and behavioral patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alicia utilizes a CBT framework and works in a collaborative manner with clients, tailoring treatment to each person\u2019s individual needs and goals. She uses humor and warmth to foster a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. Alicia\u2019s areas of clinical interest include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, work\/life balance, body image issues, self-esteem issues, social anxiety, and stress management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alicia has experience working in outpatient, IOP, and residential levels of care and has nearly a decade of experience in the field of mental health.&nbsp; She earned her master\u2019s degree in clinical counseling from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and her bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Loyola University Chicago. Alicia is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the Illinois Mental Health Counselor\u2019s Association (IMHCA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Fitzsimons is a licensed professional counselor providing therapy services to adults of all ages. Alicia uses a strengths-based approach with her clients, helping them notice and access their strengths in addition to modifying unhelpful thought and behavioral patterns. Alicia utilizes a CBT framework and works in a collaborative manner with clients, tailoring treatment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,17,13,35,23,10,11,18],"acf":{"therapist_type":"Licensed Professional Counselor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchwoodclinic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}