About Alyssa
Alyssa Crawford is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with six years of experience. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through problems and find practical ways forward. She uses approaches that focus on how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
That can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. She also supports people dealing with addiction, trauma, and major life changes. Alyssa favors straightforward conversations that center the client.
Background and approach
Sessions look at patterns in relationships and everyday choices. Together she and the client build clear goals and small steps to reach them. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to understand bonds and closeness.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Skills from dialectical behavior therapy can be included for managing intense emotion and coping with impulsivity. Alyssa recognizes concerns that come from family history, blended households, caregiving strain, and workplace stress.
She addresses intimacy, communication problems, codependency, and issues around forgiveness and shame. Her goal is to help people feel steadier and more in control. Sessions are available in English and are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Alyssa practices in Iowa and holds LCPC credentials in Kansas and Montana.
How her approaches shape online therapy
Alyssa often uses attachment-based work to look at how early and current relationships influence emotions and behavior. This helps people who feel stuck in repeating patterns, who struggle with closeness or who carry family of origin concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy is also part of her toolkit and focuses on finding and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or depression.Choosing the right approach is something she does together with each person. She will talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps shape which methods are used and which skills are practiced between sessions.
Online therapy offers a number of practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues for relationship-focused work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing skill practice, quick reflections, or brief mood check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Iowa, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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