About Alyssa
Alyssa Vida is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with seven years of experience. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process and encourages clients to set the agenda for sessions. Alyssa focuses on practical problem solving and helping people feel more capable in daily life, especially around stress and anxiety.
She uses a client-centered way of working while drawing on cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused techniques.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and building skills to manage strong emotions. Alyssa teaches coping strategies for stress and helps people notice and use their personal strengths. Alyssa has worked in community mental health, school-based programs, independent practice, and with military populations.
That range informs her flexible style and ability to adapt tools to real life situations. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University and practices as an LMFT in California. In therapy she helps people address relationship issues, grief, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and life transitions.
She also supports people navigating ADHD, autism spectrum considerations, blended family challenges, communication or commitment problems, and complications after separation or infidelity. Her sessions aim to leave clients feeling more confident, empowered, and ready to try new approaches. The work is practical, focused on small steps, and tailored to each person’s goals and pace.
How Alyssa’s Approaches Work Online
Alyssa commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-centered therapy means sessions follow the client’s lead, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and helping people clarify what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs support naming goals and feeling heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes in behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear tools to try between sessions.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Alyssa will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods to try and will adjust the plan as progress or new issues emerge.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and have longer conversations. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when typing feels more comfortable than talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and adapt sessions to everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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