About Alisa
Dr. Alisa Bash is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship worries, low self-esteem, and depression. She greets people with a calm, practical style and focuses on small steps that build confidence over time.
Her approach blends talk therapy with attention to the whole person. In sessions she encourages clients to name the problem, notice how it shows up in daily life, and try clear strategies to change it.
Background and approach
She combines cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking to address both current habits and deeper patterns. Solution-focused techniques help people set short-term goals and track progress. She also pays attention to attachment patterns, abandonment concerns, and communication problems that often underlie relationship stress.
Work may include addressing codependency, commitment worries, avoidant personality traits, and blended family tensions. People with chronic pain, illness, or disability may find strategies here to manage stress and depressive symptoms alongside medical care. She can also support those dealing with dissociation, co-morbidity, divorce or separation, and recovery from natural or human-caused disasters.
Sessions are conducted in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows standard online booking steps.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Dr. Bash uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood challenges because it breaks problems into small, manageable steps. She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy to teach present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness can help with anxiety, chronic stress, and habits linked to addiction by training attention and tolerance of uncomfortable feelings. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process means clients help shape which methods fit their needs and preferences. Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and share documents. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and timely encouragement between longer sessions. Overall, online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical demands, while allowing the therapist to use CBT and mindfulness tools in ways that match each person’s goals.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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