April Medici, LMHC

April Medici is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and the strain of major life changes. April writes and draws on her background as a former special education teacher and guidance counselor to give practical, understandable support.

She trained at the City University of New York, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in counselor education. That school background led to early work in New York City schools before she moved into clinical practice in Florida.

April uses common-sense methods and focuses on the relationship between therapist and client. Sessions emphasize clear goals, skill-building, and real-world steps people can use between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy are regularly part of her work.

Her approach also draws on Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy when those styles match a client's needs. She pays attention to the practical barriers people face and looks for small, manageable changes that add up over time.

April brings personal experience of overcoming adversity to her practice and values collaboration. She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through relationship concerns, parenting stress, ADHD-related struggles, and trauma-related symptoms.

How therapy approaches translate to online sessions

April commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety or depression and to improve coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, offering empathy and reflective listening so clients feel heard and understood.

She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple practices that reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness. These practices can help with anxiety, cravings, and emotional reactivity and are easy to practice between sessions. Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process; April collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain steady progress while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.