About Alis
Alis Africano is a Maryland clinician with 15 years of experience who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and major life shifts. She works in English and Spanish and aims to create a calm space where clients can talk things through and find practical ways forward. She focuses on day-to-day coping skills and on understanding patterns that keep problems alive.
Sessions often include learning tools for emotion regulation, examining unhelpful thoughts, and practicing new ways to respond to stress.
Background and approach
Alis encourages clients to notice strengths they already have and to build on those assets. Her background blends medical and counseling perspectives, holding an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. That mix informs an approach that pays attention to mood, thought patterns, and behavior when planning steps to feel better.
Alis uses several well-known therapy methods, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered listening. She adapts these approaches to fit each person’s goals and daily life, favoring clear, doable steps over long theory discussions.
People come to her for help with grief, relationship and family strain, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, ADHD, and issues tied to immigration or cultural background. She works collaboratively, helping clients set realistic goals and practice new responses between sessions.
How therapy approaches adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and building a strong therapeutic connection so clients feel heard and understood.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then try approaches that fit. Sessions may combine techniques from these methods so the plan matches what works for the individual.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that helps, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or step-by-step practice between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep therapy going when schedules or travel make in-person meetings harder.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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