Lucia Stanfield
Practical therapy for life’s hardest moments
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Lucia
Lucia Stanfield is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience helping people manage overwhelming feelings and life changes. She focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life so clients can start feeling steadier sooner.
Background and approach
She works with emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, grief, anger, and stress. She also helps people facing relationship strain, intimacy concerns, addiction, ADHD, and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse.
Sessions often look at how patterns in thinking and behavior affect mood and connections with others. Lucia uses several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each person.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to build values-based action, and Attachment-Based work to understand relationship patterns. The Gottman Method is also part of her toolkit for addressing relationship communication and closeness.
Her style is warm and direct. She aims to create a calm space for honest conversation and clear steps forward.
Clients leave with simple skills to manage strong emotions, improve sleep, and handle stress more effectively. Lucia meets people where they are and adjusts the pace to their needs.
She focuses on creating realistic plans for change, whether someone is coping with chronic illness, parenting stress, career shifts, or the fallout from loss and trauma.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Lucia commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps despite painful thoughts or feelings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections, which can help people understand recurring conflicts and build more supported interactions.She also incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to address communication and closeness in relationships, using practical exercises to change how partners talk and problem-solve. Choosing the right methods is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust plans together over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video works well for deeper conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, travel, or other commitments.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English