About Alissa
Alissa Lewis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and depression. She writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel practical and steady. Her style is warm and direct, focused on everyday steps people can use between sessions.
Alissa emphasizes the mind-body link in her work and uses approaches that teach coping skills and emotional awareness. Sessions often include simple tools for calming intense feelings and ways to shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
She also addresses communication problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues like guilt, shame, and loneliness. Her experience includes seven years working across outpatient and community settings. That background shapes a straightforward approach that balances skill-building with time to process difficult events.
Clients can expect a therapist who values collaboration and clear goals. Alissa draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical strategies, and acceptance-based practices. These approaches help people change patterns that keep them stuck and learn to accept painful feelings without being controlled by them.
Outside of work she enjoys outdoor activities, reading, travel, and spending time with family and her two Labrador retrievers. She aims to walk alongside people as they make changes and find more ease in daily life.
Approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life purpose questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through short exercises and homework between sessions. It often helps with anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening stance where the therapist follows the person's lead and offers empathy to help people find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what methods feel useful. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of skills. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, practicing short coping skills, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while balancing work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Maine, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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