Lucia Stanfield, LMHC

Lucia Stanfield is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people sort through painful and confusing moments. She welcomes conversations about relationship stress, depression, anxiety, grief, addiction, and struggles with identity or parenting. Lucia speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.

She keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person. That can mean practicing new ways to cope with strong emotions, learning tools to handle stress, or talking through how trauma affects current relationships. Lucia uses straightforward methods so people can try changes between sessions and notice small improvements.

Her work blends several well-known approaches to match a person’s goals. That mix supports both short-term problem solving and deeper shifts in how someone relates to themselves and others. She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns while also teaching skills to manage mood and behavior.

Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental tone and an emphasis on clear steps forward. Lucia helps people build resilience, strengthen communication, and set practical goals for daily life. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, and identity-related concerns.

Lucia believes therapy is a team effort. She works with each person to create a plan that fits their values, needs, and pace. Her long experience in Florida informs a flexible approach that aims to be useful from the first few sessions onward.

How Lucia’s approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without being ruled by them and then take steps toward a values-driven life. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and can help with trust, intimacy, and recurring conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try approaches that match your needs. That collaboration means strategies can be adapted as you notice what helps and what does not.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, allow brief check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time. Some formats need less bandwidth or no camera, which can help on a noisy day or during a short break at work. Lucia aims to make therapy practical and usable whether you are juggling family, caregiving, or work demands.