About Jalisa
Jalisa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nine years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. She listens first and follows the client's lead about what to work on together.
Her style is client-centered and strengths-based. She helps people notice patterns in their thoughts and behaviors and build small, doable changes. Sessions often include setting clear goals and practicing coping skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Jalisa draws on several evidence-informed approaches to match a person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on values and take action, and EMDR to address distress tied to traumatic memories when appropriate.
Her background includes work in inpatient psychiatric care, residential behavioral treatment, medical hospital settings including a pediatric intensive care unit, and higher education. That experience informs how she supports people through grief, trauma, depression, relationship stress, parenting strain, and caregiver burden. Jalisa pays attention to multicultural issues, racial equality, and women's empowerment when these topics matter to clients.
She aims to help people build more self-compassion and clearer communication, and to leave therapy with skills they can use in daily life.
Online approaches that focus on action and healing
Jalisa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions include identifying specific thoughts, testing them, and practicing new behaviors to produce different outcomes.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most to them and take action toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings are present. This approach can be useful for stress, life transitions, and managing ongoing worries. When trauma is central, she may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and related reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work moving forward without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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