About Arica
Arica Havis uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Alabama with ten years of experience. Her approach centers on clear conversation, steady support, and helping people build skills they can use outside sessions.
She focuses on small, concrete steps that make daily life easier. Arica helps people improve concentration and memory, cope with loss, and reduce overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions often include tools for calming the body, organizing thoughts, and breaking problems into manageable parts. Beyond broad diagnoses, she addresses relational and personal themes. That includes communication problems, feelings of guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
She works with social anxiety and phobia by practicing strategies that can be used in real situations. Arica views each person as the expert on their own life. She offers guidance, teaching, and practical exercises while centering the client’s goals.
The work is collaborative and paced to what the person can handle. Her style blends compassion with direction. People can expect a mix of talking, skill-building, and structured techniques chosen to fit their needs.
Over time the focus is on helping people regain stability and feel more in control of daily challenges.
Therapeutic Methods and Online Care
Arica draws on evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in ways that can be used in everyday life. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new responses, which can help with anxiety, depression, and social phobia. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, often called EMDR, involves structured memory-focused work to reduce distress from traumatic memories and related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will ask about goals, symptoms, and what feels most comfortable, then recommend or adapt methods collaboratively. Clients and the therapist check progress and adjust techniques as needed so the plan fits each person’s pace and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain regular contact with licensed professionals.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English