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Our Services

  • Alissa is dedicated to helping your teen gain self-confidence and worth by helping them navigate through their negative core beliefs. She will guide them through the daily struggles that come with being a teenager such as school, self-harm ideation, relationships, drug use, and other difficulties. She hopes to be able to help them find their true self and to develop their own identity.

    Alissa will help your teen to develop their sense of autonomy through outpatient therapy. She will accomplish this with the expertise of her vast background in working with teens at state hospitals, impatient, and residential treatment centers. Alissa highly recommends family therapy as it can also help teens to find where their individualism fits in the family dynamic.

  • Individual therapy is a place for you to feel safe and comfortable enough to find your true self. Alissa will help you complete this goal by listening to your honest thoughts and feelings and offering support. Alissa will tailor the session towards your needs, whether that be relaxation/grounding techniques, practicing coping mechanisms, talking about a past experience, or whatever else you find helpful.

    Alissa will utilize her skills and knowledge to help you deconstruct harmful belief systems and create adaptive new ones. Her main goal is to help you find your inner self and be able to navigate your internal system.

  • Alissa wants to help you learn to work together as a family to overcome life struggles and stressors. She focuses on open and honest communication between each family member in order to help them overcome power struggles. She wants to bridge the gap between parents and their children by helping parents to learn to support their children's individuality and decisions. Also, by helping children understand the difficulties their parents go through to raise them.

  • Alissa strives to create a space of understanding and communication for couples to openly talk about their issues. She wants both partners to feel comfortable and be heard. She helps them to create an understanding and appreciation for each other by helping them to understand the other's difficulties and identity.

Alissa’s Specalities

  • Our lives are based upon our lived experiences and how they impact us in different ways. When those experiences are rooted in deep trauma, or grief it can impact our lives in complex and emotional ways that may be hard to deal with.

    Alissa Strives to help you handle these complex emotions through using a variety of different modalities such as, IFS, EMDR, Mindfulness, and experiential therapy. Alissa uses a holistic framework to help clients listen to their mind body and spirit and give them a personalized healing experience.

  • Growing up feeling as if you are different from society for being who you are, can be an emotionally trying experience. It can change the way you view yourself and make you feel as though you are different. Which is not the case.

    Alissa hopes to be able to help bridge the gap between your self- and societal identity by creating a supportive space for you to talk about the complexities of identifying as LGBTQIA. Alissa aims to help you find and become confident in your own self-identity, and to help you find common ground between your identity and your family/societies ideals.

  • Transitioning from a culture that you have built your life around can be a truly shattering and traumatic experience. It is challenging to try and balance your new morals with the thoughts and beliefs you were taught.

    Alissa understands this challenge as she has gone through her own faith transition. She understands how complex deconstructing your values and creating new ones can be. She wants to help ease this transition by helping you work through your belief system to find yourself again.

  • Being a woman in this day and age comes with its many struggles and difficulties such as navigating being a mother, single parenting, pre-natal and post-partum struggles, domestic violence and more.

    Alissa will help you navigate these struggles by offering a safe space to talk about these issues and work through any trauma associated with them.

  • Parenting is hard. Learning to take care of another human being, let alone, working them into you and your partner's lives is hard.

    Alissa strives to help you work through the different stressors of parenting associated with each developmental phase. She will achieve this by helping parents communicate and blend parenting styles. She also helps couples work through any shame or guilt that may come.