Alicia M. Rivera Jones
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Level 3 Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist, and Approved Clinical Consultant for the IFS Institute, practicing in Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Massachusetts. As a white Puerto Rican, bilingual (español /English), bi/queer therapist (she/they/ella/elle), my personal and professional experiences inform my commitment to embodied, relational, and culturally responsive care. My approach is grounded in warmth, curiosity, and radical care, drawing from transfeminist, decolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. Through IFS, I help clients build compassionate relationships with their inner worlds, honor protective patterns, and reconnect with their inherent wisdom. I make room for complexity, creativity, spirituality, accountability, and righteous rage. My intention is to offer a collaborative, nonjudgmental space where healing unfolds at your pace and supports deeper connection with yourself, others, and the world around you.
I make room for complexity, creativity, spirituality, accountability, and righteous rage.
First session
Our first session is an opportunity to build a relationship grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and trust. Together, we explore what brings you to therapy and what meaningful support looks like on your terms. Through IFS, we honor your experiences and protective patterns without rushing to fix or change them. I believe the therapeutic relationship is part of the healing itself, making room for feedback, accountability, and repair. You don't need the right words or a clear goal to begin. We start where you are, respecting your pace and capacity, with the intention of creating meaningful opportunities for growth, connection, and lasting change.
Strengths
I bring warmth, curiosity, and compassion to a practice grounded in IFS, embodied care, and transfeminist, decolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. As a white Puerto Rican, bilingual (español /English), bi/queer therapist and parent, I honor the complexity of identity, culture, and lived experience. My intention is to create a space where all parts are welcome and healing can unfold through connection, creativity, and curiosity rather than judgment.
Ideal clients
I welcome curious individuals seeking deeper self-understanding through healing that honors the complexity of their lived experiences. My practice especially welcomes queer, LGBTQIA+, gender-expansive, bi+, Latine, multicultural, and bilingual individuals navigating identity, culture, and belonging. Grounded in IFS, relational, embodied, and decolonial approaches, I support clients exploring family dynamics, intergenerational patterns, attachment, dissociation, sexuality, and relationships, including polyamory and non-monogamy. Together, we cultivate self-trust, agency, pleasure, and meaningful connection while honoring the wisdom within protective patterns. Therapy offers space to recognize the gifts you already carry and imagine new possibilities aligned with your values. You don't need all the answers, curiosity is enough to begin.
Origin story
My path to therapy was shaped by personal experiences with dissociation, embodiment, and the search for healing and connection. As a former massage therapist, I developed a deep appreciation for the body's wisdom and the importance of feeling safe and present within it. My connection to spirituality, nature, tarot, and astrology also informs my curiosity about meaning and self-discovery. These experiences inspire me to offer a therapeutic space grounded in compassion, curiosity, and respect for each person's unique unfolding.
Ongoing work together
Our work together is collaborative, relational, and grounded in your needs, values, and capacity. Through IFS, embodied practices, and decolonial perspectives, we explore protective patterns while honoring how culture, relationships, and lived experiences shape your inner world. Progress isn't measured by how well you adapt or regulate, but by growing self-trust, agency, embodied connection, and more reciprocal relationships. I welcome complexity, creativity, feedback, accountability, and repair as essential parts of healing. Together, we make space to recognize the wisdom you already carry and cultivate possibilities for living with greater authenticity, connection, and alignment with your values.
Treatment methods
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I use IFS to help clients develop a compassionate relationship with their inner worlds, recognizing the different parts of us that hold emotions, beliefs, and protective roles. As a Level 3 IFS Certified Therapist and Approved Clinical Consultant for the IFS Institute, I bring advanced training and experience to this work. Together, we explore the needs and experiences beneath protective patterns through curiosity, embodied awareness, and repair rather than judgment. My approach honors the wisdom of the body, the complexity of lived experiences, and the healing possibilities of Self-led presence, compassion, connection, and righteous rage. I see therapy as an unfolding process of building trust with ourselves and cultivating more accountable, connected relationships with our communities and the world around us.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- FloridaLicense SW24932
- PennsylvaniaLicense CW020906