About Alyssa
Alyssa Allen, LPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, practical approach that focuses on clear steps and real skills. Many clients come for help with mood changes, panic, trauma, and life transitions.
Sessions are conversational and aimed at small, steady changes clients can use every day. Alyssa uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skill-building to teach emotion regulation and better ways of responding when feelings run high. For those dealing with traumatic memories, she offers eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as one option to process past events. Her work emphasizes learning - clients are taught simple strategies and homework they can practice between sessions.
Motivational interviewing is part of the mix when someone wants support making life changes. Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and build awareness in daily moments. Alyssa has seven years of professional experience and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Pennsylvania.
She offers sessions in English and does not work with international clients. Session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and are managed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person chooses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
How Alyssa’s Approaches Work Online
Alyssa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, and then practice small changes that shift mood and reactions. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches concrete skills for handling strong emotions, managing stress, and improving communication in daily life.She also offers eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people who want to address traumatic memories. EMDR involves guided processing of distressing memories so they cause less emotional charge and interfere less with daily functioning. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most manageable, then adjust methods as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let therapists watch body language and hold more in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options offer scheduling flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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