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Holistic mental health therapy to support healing, growth, and resilience take root. In-Person & Virtual Sessions Available

Hi, I’m Alicia Glasser, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Trauma Professional at Cypress Roots Counseling. I help children, teens, and adults work through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life transitions using a trauma-informed, holistic approach that supports both mind and body. My work blends evidence-based practices like CBT, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and somatic tools to help clients build resilience, self-understanding, and emotional balance. I’m passionate about creating a safe, supportive space where healing and growth can take root.

10/28/2026

🌿 Examining Beliefs Without Dismissing Experience 🌿

Therapy does not need to turn every painful thought into a positive one.

Trauma-informed cognitive work can validate why a belief developed while also exploring whether it has become broader, more rigid, or more absolute than the current evidence supports.

Clients may examine evidence, context, exceptions, alternative explanations, and what has changed since the belief first developed.

CBT, trauma-focused cognitive approaches, and ACT perspective-taking can support a fuller view without minimizing lived experience.

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10/26/2026

🌿 When Beliefs Feel Like Facts 🌿
Beliefs can influence what we notice, remember, expect, and how we interpret new information.

When a belief has been reinforced over time, it may feel immediately true—even when the present situation is more complex.

Examining a belief does not require pretending the experiences that shaped it did not happen.

Instead, we can ask whether the belief accounts for all of the information available to us now.

A more balanced belief is not necessarily a positive one. It is one that makes room for evidence, context, exceptions, and present-day experience.

Understanding why a belief developed and examining whether it still fits can both be true at the same time.

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10/23/2026

🌿Then → Now Check-In🌿

When something feels intensely familiar, orienting to both past learning and present information can help clarify what is happening.

🛠 Practice: Then → Now Check-In
(Trauma-Informed Present Orientation + Cognitive Discrimination)

Pause and ask:

• Familiar: What about this situation feels familiar?
• Expectation: What am I expecting or preparing for?
• Then: What earlier experience might this remind me of?
• Now: What information do I have about what is happening in the present?
• Body: What does my body notice as I orient to the here and now?

💭 Reflection:

What is similar to the past—and what is different now?

Present orientation helps us include current information alongside what previous experiences taught us to expect.

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10/21/2026

🌿Connecting Past Patterns With Present Responses🌿

Therapy can help explore when a current situation is activating expectations or protective responses shaped by earlier experiences.

The goal is not to label every reaction as trauma. It is to become more precise about what belongs to the present and what may be influenced by previous learning.

Trauma-informed CBT and somatic awareness can support clients in noticing thoughts, predictions, physical activation, and environmental information together.

Over time, this can create more room to respond to the present without dismissing the protective learning that developed in the past.

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10/19/2026

🌿Past Experiences Can Influence What We Expect Now🌿

The brain uses previous experience to help anticipate what may happen next.

After threatening, unpredictable, painful, or repeated experiences, we may become quicker to notice cues associated with danger, rejection, conflict, or loss of control.

These learned expectations can influence attention, interpretation, emotion, and physical responses—sometimes before we have consciously identified what feels familiar.

A response that seems confusing in the present may make more sense when we understand what the mind and body learned to prepare for.

That does not mean every present reaction is caused by the past. It means past learning can be one source of information our system uses.

Trauma-informed awareness helps us notice both what feels familiar and what is actually happening now.

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10/16/2026

🌿Core Belief Check-In🌿

When a reaction feels especially strong or familiar, a deeper belief may be influencing the moment.

🛠 Practice: Core Belief Check-In
(CBT Core-Belief Identification)

Pause and ask:

• Notice: What am I believing about myself in this situation?
• Others: What am I believing about other people or relationships?
• Origin: Where might I have learned or reinforced this belief?
• Impact: How does this belief affect what I feel, expect, or do?
• Present: Does this belief describe the whole of what I know now?

💭 Reflection:

What belief may be shaping the way I am understanding this situation?

Naming a belief can create space to understand its influence without judging why it developed.

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10/14/2026

🌿Exploring Core Beliefs in Therapy🌿

Therapy can help identify beliefs that operate beneath more immediate thoughts and reactions.

A trauma-informed approach may explore where a belief developed, what experiences reinforced it, and how it affects current emotions, relationships, expectations, or choices.

Core beliefs are not challenged simply because they are uncomfortable. Their history and protective function matter.

Through CBT and trauma-focused cognitive work, clients can begin examining whether a belief still reflects the full range of their present experience.

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10/12/2026

🌿What We Experience Can Influence What We Believe🌿

Over time, significant or repeated experiences can contribute to deeper beliefs about ourselves, other people, relationships, and the world.

In CBT, these are often described as core beliefs. They may involve themes such as safety, trust, control, responsibility, worth, connection, or whether our needs matter.

Because these beliefs often develop through lived experience, they can feel less like thoughts and more like facts.

They can influence what we notice, what we expect, and how we interpret new situations.

Recognizing a core belief is not about blaming ourselves for having it. It is an opportunity to understand what may be shaping our responses in the present.

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10/09/2026

🌿From Event to Meaning to Response🌿

Sometimes it helps to slow an experience down and notice the steps between what happened and how we responded.

🛠 Practice: Event → Interpretation → Response
(CBT Cognitive Model + Cognitive Appraisal)

Pause and ask:

• Event: What happened? Describe the situation as concretely as you can.
• Interpretation: What did I understand, assume, or predict about what was happening?
• Mind-Body: What emotions or physical responses showed up?
• Response: What did I do next?
• Revisit: Is there anything else I notice about how I interpreted the situation?

💭 Reflection:

What changes when I separate what happened from what I understood it to mean?

Slowing the sequence down can help us understand how interpretation connects experience with response.

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10/07/2026

🌿Exploring Meaning in Therapy🌿

Therapy can create space to separate an experience from the conclusions that may have developed around it.

A trauma-informed approach may explore what happened, what the experience came to mean, and how that meaning continues to influence thoughts, emotions, relationships, or protective responses.

The goal is not to argue someone out of their experience. It is to understand how the experience was processed and what may still be active in the present.

Through trauma-informed CBT, narrative approaches, and reflective processing, clients can develop a clearer understanding of the connection between experience, interpretation, and response.

☎️Call/Text (863) 334-3030
📧Email [email protected]

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202 Circle Park Drive Suite 3
Sebring, FL
33870

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

(863)3343030

Website

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/cypress-roots-counseling-sebring-fl/1591274

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