Lucia Stanfield, LMHC

Lucia Stanfield is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people navigate tough life moments. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, addiction, ADHD, and the stress of caregiving or aging. Sessions are designed to feel calm and straightforward so people can speak honestly about what matters most to them.

Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients build simple, practical tools to manage emotions and make clearer choices. That can look like learning new ways to handle anger, improving sleep habits, or finding steadier ground after loss or trauma.

Lucia integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy. She adapts methods to each person’s goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Therapy often includes skill practice, reflective conversations, and checking how strategies work in daily life.

She has guided people through long-term challenges like bipolar disorder and chronic illness, and through life transitions such as caregiver stress, adoption or foster care issues, and aging-related concerns. Her work also addresses intimacy, body image, workplace pressure, and identity questions within LGBT experiences.

People who choose her can expect down-to-earth guidance and step-by-step coping tools. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior and testing new ways of responding; it is useful for mood, sleep, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people create safer ways of connecting and relating to others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lucia will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process may include combining techniques from different approaches and adjusting plans as progress is reviewed.

Confirm the specific online formats before booking because the biography does not list session types. In general, online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy life easier by reducing travel time and allowing more flexible scheduling. It can also support shorter check-ins when needed or allow sessions without video when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and skill practice to work well in remote settings, helping clients build tools they can use day to day.