About Alaine
Alaine Lagasse is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 12 years of clinical experience to her work in Minnesota. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth counseling to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her style is direct but compassionate, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
She uses straightforward conversations to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused.
Background and approach
Alaine combines techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment work, and mindfulness so clients can practice new habits between meetings. Alaine also draws on motivational interviewing to help people weigh options and build motivation for change. She helps people who are coping with grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and life transitions.
She is attentive to issues around substance use, codependency, and family of origin themes. People describe her approach as honest and respectful. She affirms diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning.
Her work pays attention to the realities of caregiving, blended families, aging concerns, and isolation or loneliness. Alaine will meet people where they are and tailor conversations to individual needs. She explains options clearly and helps clients build small steps that fit everyday life.
If someone is ready to try therapy, she supports practical change and steady progress.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Alaine uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT often focuses on practical strategies for anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping with life changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses; it focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them even when difficult feelings remain. ACT can help with grief, low motivation, and ongoing stress.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. Sessions can be adjusted over time if something is not working, so clients play an active role in shaping their plan.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes scheduling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a shorter break, and messaging options support brief check-ins or writing-based reflection. These formats help people balance therapy with work, caregiving, and daily life while trying different approaches that fit their needs.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Minnesota
- Languages
- English