About Aleia
Aleia Van Dyke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, and questions about identity. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what feels overwhelming. Her approach focuses on practical steps and clearer understanding so people can feel steadier day to day.
With eleven years of experience, Aleia draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. She works with people on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting struggles, and LGBTQ-related issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with trauma, postpartum depression, phobias, dissociation, and other complex challenges. In sessions she helps clients set meaningful goals and build tools they can use between appointments. Conversations often include looking at attachment patterns, family of origin dynamics, and how past experiences shape current reactions.
The aim is to increase self-awareness and reduce symptoms of anxiety and stress through practical strategies. Aleia has experience addressing blended family issues, jealousy, personality-related difficulties, and separation or divorce concerns. She also works with people navigating polyamory or non-monogamous relationships, and those healing from sexual assault or self-harm behaviors.
Her style is direct but compassionate, helping people notice small changes that add up. Clients in California can expect sessions that blend discussion, skill-building, and real-world problem solving. Aleia communicates plainly and focuses on what will help most in a person’s daily life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based approaches she uses focus on practical skills and understanding patterns. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral steps to reduce anxiety and manage stress; this involves learning concrete techniques and practicing them between sessions to see gradual improvement. Another approach looks at attachment and family of origin patterns to help people understand how early relationships shape current reactions; this helps with relationship, intimacy, and parenting concerns by making those patterns easier to notice and change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people send updates or questions between sessions. These options help people stay consistent and work on skills from wherever they are in California.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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