About Alisha
Alisha Gipe is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or relationship strain. She writes short, clear goals with clients and focuses on skills that can be used between sessions. Her manner is calm and straightforward to help someone who is worried feel understood quickly.
She works with people coping with trauma and abuse, panic and social anxiety, and challenges like low self-esteem or isolation.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and helps clients try new ways of responding. Practical tools for communication, self-compassion, and managing intense emotions are part of her usual work. Alisha emphasizes building emotional resilience and repairing the effects of attachment struggles.
She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, body image concerns, and the fallout of divorce or separation. Treatment often includes short-term skill building and longer work on deeper wounds, depending on what an individual needs. Her clinical style draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach coping strategies and rebuild confidence.
Sessions move at a practical pace and aim to leave people with concrete skills they can practice between meetings. Alisha believes recovery and growth happen step by step. She is based in Washington and holds a Washington LICSW, with four years of clinical experience.
Conversations are held in English and she does not take clients outside the United States. The focus is on steady, manageable progress toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning.
Evidence-based approaches for online anxiety and trauma care
Alisha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skills for managing anxiety and panic by teaching short, concrete breathing and grounding tools and testing unhelpful thoughts in real situations. This helps when worry or panic limit daily activities.Another approach addresses trauma and relationship wounds by working on attachment patterns and self-compassion. Sessions explore how past hurts shape current reactions and introduce ways to respond differently in close relationships and to oneself.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to what matters most, try simple strategies, and adjust the plan as goals and preferences become clearer. Clients help set the pace and focus of the work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low, and messaging allows short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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