About Alisha
Alisha "Nikki" Lowman is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in North Carolina. She brings five years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma. Nikki uses a calm, collaborative style to help people name what feels overwhelming and try practical steps that fit their life.
Nikki is LGBTQ+ affirming and centers trauma-informed care in her work. She believes people can’t always change their circumstances, but they can learn new ways to respond.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building skills and clearer thinking so small changes add up. Her approach combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support motivation and emotional balance.
These methods are used to address sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, grief, and mood concerns. Nikki has experience helping adolescents and young adults navigate anxiety, school and college transitions, and the effects of abuse or traumatic events. She also helps people facing parenting stress, caregiver strain, relationship challenges, and non-monogamous relationship issues.
In sessions, she aims for a warm and interactive tone. People can expect practical suggestions, skill practice, and compassionate feedback. The goal is to build tools that make daily life easier and more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people lead the conversation about what matters most. This approach is useful for building trust and making therapy feel personally relevant rather than one-size-fits-all.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop new behaviors for managing anxiety, mood, sleep, and ADHD-related challenges.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved relationships. Those skills can be helpful for strong emotions, self-harm urges, and problems with intense mood swings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily routine. Plans are adjusted as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls are good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone visits work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. This flexibility helps people keep therapy going around school, work, or caregiving duties.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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