About Alesia
Alesia Dunlap is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps people facing addiction, relationship strain, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She writes plainly and works with adults to address practical problems and everyday struggles. Alesia draws on two decades of counseling experience to support change and forward movement.
She works with people who are dealing with sexual or substance addictions and with those whose relationships have been harmed by past abuse.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting individuals coping with family conflict, communication breakdowns, and life transitions. Sessions focus on the problems clients bring and on clear steps they can try between meetings. Alesia trained originally as an industrial engineer before changing careers, then completed a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling from Lancaster Bible College.
Her background gives her a pragmatic style and an interest in concrete problem solving. She lists LPC as her credential and has practiced for about 20 years in Pennsylvania. Her approach leans toward practical, goal-focused methods.
She blends client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral ideas and motivational interviewing. She also uses narrative and solution-focused techniques and has experience with EMDR when trauma is part of the picture. In sessions she helps people identify patterns, try new behaviors, and adjust unhelpful thoughts.
The emphasis is on doable changes and on building skills that fit everyday life. For someone ready to work on specific issues, she offers steady, experienced guidance.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Alesia commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely, reflecting what the client says, and helping people find their own solutions. It is useful for building confidence and working through relationship and self-esteem concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts affect behavior and mood, and it offers specific exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns often seen with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also has experience with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which some adults use when trauma and abuse are central to their concerns. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of troubling memories by using structured processing techniques under a therapist's guidance. The therapist will work with each person to decide which approach feels right and to adapt methods to the client’s goals and comfort level in a collaborative way.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text let people check in quickly, send updates, or have shorter coaching-style interactions during busy weeks. These formats give flexibility so therapy can fit work, family life, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English