Alicia Finigan, PACFA

Alicia Finigan is a clinical Australian counsellor with seven years of professional experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and psychological challenges. She works from an integrative psychotherapy stance, drawing on multiple evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape a plan that fits each person’s needs, personality and goals. Alicia is listed with PACFA.

Her practice focuses on stress, anxiety and addictions, and includes support for trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns and coping with life changes. She also works with issues such as abandonment and attachment difficulties, avoidant personality traits, blended family challenges, body image and caregiver stress. Relationship and family concerns are central to her work, including communication problems, co-dependency, commitment issues, divorce and separation, and domestic violence. Substance-related problems and other forms of addiction are also within her scope of practice.

Alicia takes a compassionate, collaborative approach, helping people explore healthier ways of coping, strengthen emotional resilience and align daily life with core values. She recognises that each person brings knowledge and strengths to the therapeutic process, and she partners with them to build practical strategies and sustainable change. Taking a first step towards therapy is framed as an act of self-care, and she aims to offer steady support throughout the journey.

Integrative approaches and online therapy

Alicia works from an integrative psychotherapy framework, combining a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to suit each person’s circumstances. This means she selects approaches that best address issues such as anxiety, stress, addiction and trauma, tailoring interventions to individual needs and goals.

She also uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques more broadly to build practical skills for coping, emotion regulation and relationship repair. These techniques focus on helping people recognise unhelpful patterns, develop alternative responses and practise new ways of relating that support long-term change.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process, and Alicia adopts a collaborative stance. She works together with people to identify priorities, trial different strategies and adjust the plan based on what fits best with the client’s values, preferences and progress.

Online therapy offers flexible access to support through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments, and they allow appropriately qualified or registered professionals and therapists to work with people who might otherwise find in-person appointments difficult to attend.