About Alyssa
Alyssa Kirk LPC focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Her work is grounded in building a trusting connection so people can take practical steps forward.
She has twelve years of experience in counseling and social work in Pennsylvania. That background includes helping people connect with community resources when needed. Alyssa blends a client-centered attitude with structured tools to address everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with sleep or eating.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact, and dialectical behavior therapy, which teaches emotion regulation and coping skills. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people set goals and stay motivated.
Alyssa works with a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, and career or life transitions. She pays attention to how health problems, caregiving roles, and aging can affect mood and day-to-day functioning. Practical help is a focus.
Sessions include skill-building, problem solving, and finding community supports when helpful. The aim is to make distress more manageable and to help people move toward clearer goals and better daily routines.
How Alyssa’s Approaches Work Online
Alyssa uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going, and then practices new, more helpful habits. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and low mood. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist and client talk about goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust what they do based on what helps most. Sessions mix listening, skill practice, and planning so change feels steady and realistic.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is helpful for longer, interactive sessions where worksheets or role play are used. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be a good option for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or step-by-step coaching between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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