About Alisa
Alisa Branch is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of experience. She brings a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical tools that people can use between sessions. Parents and adults often seek her out for help with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and ADHD-related concerns.
She uses short, focused tasks and feedback to build coping skills. Sessions typically include goal setting, skill practice, and check-ins on progress.
Background and approach
That hands-on approach aims to make change feel doable instead of overwhelming. Branch trained in psychology and community agency counseling before working in a range of clinical settings. Her background includes outpatient mental health, inpatient psychiatric care, mobile crisis work, and community medical centers.
This range shaped how she approaches both crisis moments and steady, longer-term work. Her work draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She matches methods to the person’s needs and focuses on things people can try right away to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Alisa helps people manage common clinical concerns such as depression, trauma, addictions, bipolar disorder, and self-esteem problems. She also supports parents managing caregiver stress and people navigating family and relationship challenges. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from North Carolina.
She strives to be a calm, encouraging presence while offering clear next steps. The first meetings usually focus on immediate goals and practical strategies to try between sessions.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Alisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy during online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on building emotional regulation and distress-tolerance skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you decide whether to focus on skill learning, behavior change, or short-term problem solving, and the plan can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and teaching hands-on skills. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or focused coaching into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting around school, work, and family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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