About Alissa
Alissa Hirshfeld is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with over 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate major life changes. Her manner is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel less overwhelming for those who reach out.
Alissa adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She talks through practical ways to cope with depression, grief, or mood shifts.
Background and approach
She also helps people address relationship strain and communication problems during difficult transitions. Clients come to her for support around divorce and separation, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and challenges that often appear in midlife. She pays attention to life purpose questions and the particular stresses women sometimes face.
Post-traumatic stress and coping after loss are also areas she addresses. Her work centers on clear, down-to-earth discussion and collaborative planning. She encourages small, steady steps that build confidence and reduce distress.
Sessions are intended to help people leave feeling understood and with concrete next steps. Alissa offers her services via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
People who want to begin therapy complete a short matching questionnaire and then choose a time that fits their schedule.
Approaches for Anxiety and Life Transitions Online
Alissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear problems and practical strategies. One approach helps people learn skills to manage anxious thoughts and reduce worry through step-by-step practice and behavioral changes. Another emphasizes improving communication and problem solving so relationship stress and conflicts feel more manageable and less triggering.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and client explore what matters most, try methods that match goals, and adjust the plan as needed. This shared process helps find strategies that fit the person’s preferences and day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates or ask quick questions between sessions and fit support into busy schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while working around work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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