About Alisa
Alisa Dunker is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience in behavioral health. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, ADHD, and stress. Her manner is warm and collaborative, aimed at making clients feel heard and respected from the start.
She uses a trauma-informed, client-centered approach. Sessions emphasize practical skills and simple steps people can use between appointments. Alisa often draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques and solution-focused methods alongside mindfulness and broader wellness strategies.
Background and approach
Alisa has worked across a range of concerns that often overlap, including grief, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems. She also has experience with adoption-related challenges and with parents of children who have disabilities. These experiences shape how she tailors support to each person’s situation.
In the room she focuses on clear goals and small, measurable changes. Conversations are direct but compassionate, with an eye toward building coping skills and reducing harmful behaviors. She helps people identify patterns, test new ways of reacting, and practice different responses in daily life.
People who come to her for help with addictions, trauma, or chronic anxiety typically work on safety, relapse prevention, and rebuilding routines. For ADHD and impulsivity the emphasis is on practical strategies for focus and planning. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
Evidence-Based Methods for Online Support
Alisa commonly integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques and solution-focused work into online sessions. Cognitive-behavioral techniques look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teach practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Solution-focused methods concentrate on identifying small, achievable steps and building on what already works for a person.She also draws on mindfulness and holistic wellness practices to help manage stress and build self-regulation. Mindfulness exercises train attention and reduce reactivity, while wellness strategies may include routines for sleep, activity, and coping that support overall progress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as work proceeds. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and change strategies when something isn’t helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a conversation benefits from visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English