About Alyssa
Alyssa Allen, LPC, helps people who are anxious, stressed, or carrying the weight of past trauma. She works with adults dealing with depression, parenting stress, career concerns, and intense fear responses such as panic and phobias. Her style is straightforward and practical, focused on skills you can use between sessions.
She has seven years of clinical experience and uses several evidence-based methods to guide work in therapy. Sessions include clear education about how thoughts and behaviors interact.
Background and approach
She introduces practical tools for managing strong emotions and reducing overwhelming reactions. Alyssa often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and create small behavior changes. She uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are priorities.
For people whose lives are shaped by past traumatic events, she also offers EMDR as one possible way to process difficult memories. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. She explains ideas plainly and checks in about what is working.
Clients learn concrete strategies for coping with panic, managing mood, and facing avoidance related to specific fears. Sessions may include short skill practices, goal-setting, and reflection about progress. Alyssa frames therapy as a team effort aimed at building steadier days and clearer decision making.
She practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
How specific approaches translate online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice thoughts that feed fear and anxiety and then test small behavior changes to reduce avoidance and panic. Online CBT sessions tend to include short homework tasks and real-time practice during video or chat meetings to build new habits.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication skills. In remote sessions a therapist can teach brief skills, coach through intense moments, and provide follow-up exercises to practice between meetings.
EMDR is a structured way of processing memories that cause ongoing distress. When offered online, the therapist guides the process step by step and checks in frequently to pace the work in a way that feels manageable.
Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to find the right mix of skills, processing, and problem-solving for each person.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions save bandwidth and can be easier on busy days, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options can make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules while maintaining steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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