About Aleia
Aleia Van Dyke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, phobias, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style to help clients build practical skills and feel more in charge of day-to-day life. Aleia draws on 11 years of clinical experience in California.
She focuses on clear goals and small, achievable steps. Sessions often center on increasing self-awareness, reducing intense reactions, and practicing new ways to cope.
Background and approach
She has worked with people coping with trauma, postpartum depression, self-harm, and dissociation, and she supports those managing identity and LGBT concerns. Aleia also addresses challenges around parenting, blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and attachment issues. Additionally, she has experience with personality disorders, jealousy, polyamory and non-monogamous relationship questions, and the effects of sexual assault and abuse.
She helps people facing disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and other mood challenges find steadier ground. In sessions Aleia aims to be direct and warm. She helps clients name patterns, practice new behaviors, and track small wins.
Many people find this practical focus useful when managing persistent worries, intense emotions, or situational fears. Aleia meets with clients by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She works in English and practices as a California LCSW.
Approaches that guide online work and what to expect
Aleia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and practical change. One common approach she uses emphasizes building coping skills to manage anxiety and phobic responses; this involves gradual practice, short behavioral experiments, and repeated exposure to reduce intense reactions. Another approach centers on processing trauma and dissociation by helping people name reactions, build stabilization skills, and develop safer ways to respond to triggers.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Aleia will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you learn what helps. You will work together to choose techniques that feel doable and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text can fit into busy days or offer shorter, focused support. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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