Alicia Pfahler Counseling Inc.

I have been a professional therapist for 22 years. I am the founder, owner, and clinical director of Restoring Hope Counseling Center, a private practice of professional counselors and a counselor training center in Gainesville, Florida. I work mostly with individuals, couples, children, teens, and families. I specialize in attachment therapy, also called Interpersonal Neurobiology as neuroscience catches us with us. I also specialize in trauma-informed care, adoption and foster care issues including attachment, abuse recovery, and healthy styles of connecting in relationships with God, self, spouse, church, community, and children. I am a Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) practitioner and educator. My most life-giving topics to study and discuss include the intersection of faith, mental health, and the church as well as the topic of emotionally healthy spirituality. This passion comes from a past as a missionary/pastor’s kid and a present in growing deep roots in the soil of God’s love. The most challenging places to grow and learn have come from being a voice for the survivors of abuse and the marginalized through advocacy in the community, testifying in court, and speaking in churches. My joy is being married to Dave for 24 years and raising 2 college-aged daughters together. I love family time, traveling and exploring, tennis, reading, writing, speaking, community development, and dinners & coffee with friends.