About Dalecia
Dalecia Parks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, relationship problems, and addiction issues. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Sessions emphasize simple skills and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She often blends breath, body awareness, and movement with talk-based work to help people feel calmer in their bodies. That somatic perspective is paired with approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Background and approach
The result is a down-to-earth style that centers the person's experience. Dalecia keeps sessions collaborative and person-centered. She listens for patterns tied to attachment, abandonment, or past hurts and helps clients test new ways of relating and coping.
For people managing grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or compassion fatigue, she focuses on realistic tools to reduce overwhelm. With nine years of clinical experience, Dalecia works to build resilience and clearer emotional understanding. She supports clients dealing with ADHD, dissociation, body image, and co-occurring drug or alcohol concerns by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Therapy with her uses a mix of somatic awareness, practical skills, and values-based choices. New clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Her practice offers multiple remote formats to fit different lives.
How her approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed work pays attention to body sensations, breath, and the ways the body holds stress. Online sessions can still use guided breath, posture awareness, and simple movement prompts to help lower physical tension and anchor emotion regulation.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them. In remote sessions this often means setting practical at-home experiments and using short exercises to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape patterns in current connections. Through reflective conversation and gentle tracking of relational patterns, a therapist helps clients try new ways of relating even when meeting online.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can involve trying techniques and adjusting based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work or caregiving and to follow up between appointments. For many people, remote formats increase consistency and allow therapy to fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English