About Alyssa
Alyssa Crawford is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, ADHD, and relationship struggles. She writes short, clear plans and focuses on practical steps someone can use right away. Her manner is respectful and down-to-earth.
Alyssa uses approaches that center on the person and their attachments. She listens for patterns in relationships and helps people understand how those patterns affect current problems.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with workable strategies. Clients can expect a mix of focused skill work and open conversation. Sessions may include learning coping skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and trying small behavior changes drawn from solution-focused techniques.
The goal is concrete progress on daily challenges like concentration, mood, or communication. She has six years of professional experience and holds LCPC credentials in Kansas and Montana. Alyssa organizes treatment around a client’s daily life, not around jargon.
She explains options plainly and sets short-term goals that are easy to follow. People looking for help with grief, addiction, impulse control, or career stress will find clear, actionable tools here. Alyssa emphasizes steady steps and realistic expectations.
She invites clients to shape the work together so it matches their pace and priorities.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Alyssa commonly blends Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people make sense of their relationships and daily thinking patterns. Attachment work looks at how past relationship patterns affect current feelings and interactions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She treats the choice of approach as a collaborative decision. During early sessions she will listen to goals and try different methods to see what fits. Together the therapist and client choose techniques that match the person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and role play. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who want shorter, written check-ins or ongoing support between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Iowa, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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