About Alta
Alta Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Alta listens with compassion and helps clients find practical ways forward.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused work narrows in on small, achievable steps that can bring quick relief. Alta has worked in hospital settings and in independent practice. That range of experience gives her an understanding of medical, end-of-life, and caregiving challenges as well as everyday life struggles.
She brings a calm, steady presence when people are coping with big changes or loss. Sessions often focus on developing coping skills for sleep, eating, anger, and attention concerns like ADHD. She also supports people facing career questions, caregiver stress, body image and self-esteem, and issues related to postpartum or seasonal mood changes.
Alta adapts her style to each person's needs and pace. Her work aims to be practical and compassionate. Conversations are about what’s happening now, what’s getting in the way, and what small steps might help.
Alta helps people set realistic goals and build skills they can use between sessions.
Approaches That Fit Your Life Online
Alta uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's priorities and pace, offering a listening approach that focuses on needs the client brings to sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical exercises that change behavior and mood. Solution-Focused work narrows conversations toward small, doable steps that can create faster relief for specific problems.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Alta will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and work closely in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick reflections, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing helps someone process thoughts. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English