About Alesia
Alesia Dunlap, LPC, welcomes people who are dealing with anxiety and the everyday strain it brings. She offers straightforward support for stress, relationship problems, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and low self-esteem. Sessions focus on real steps clients can try between meetings and on finding what works now.
She trained later in life after a first career in industrial engineering. Alesia earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling from Lancaster Bible College.
Background and approach
She holds a Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor credential and has practiced for 20 years. Her clinical work has included general outpatient counseling and a specialized practice serving adults with sexual and pornography addiction, plus counseling teenage boys in a residential drug and alcohol program. That experience shaped a practical, goal-oriented style that looks for change you can notice.
Alesia blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She also uses Narrative Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when the situation calls for it. In sessions she listens first, then helps clients try straightforward techniques to reduce worry and rebuild routines.
People who come to her can expect clear, doable plans and a focus on present choices. She aims to turn lessons from the past into useful skills for today. Her work is direct and compassionate, geared toward small wins that add up over time.
How Alesia Uses Talk, Tools, and Trauma Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and values. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people identify changes they want to make, which suits worries about relationships, parenting, or self-worth.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It teaches practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood over time.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is sometimes used for trauma and abuse-related distress. It helps people process troubling memories so those memories cause less disruption in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist starts by asking about current problems, goals, and preferences, then recommends one or more methods to try. Clients and the therapist check in together and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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