About Alyssa
Alyssa Allen is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, parenting strain, and career concerns. She presents information in clear terms and focuses on practical tools people can use between sessions. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at making small changes that matter.
With seven years of experience, she draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation and healthier thinking.
Background and approach
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help process traumatic memories when that is appropriate. Sessions include psychoeducation so clients understand how thoughts and behaviors connect. Alyssa emphasizes a collaborative working relationship.
She helps people set specific goals and picks techniques that fit their needs and comfort level. Progress is tracked through practical steps rather than abstract promises. Her background includes focused work on issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, codependency, communication problems, mood disorders, panic attacks, and the strain of parenting.
She also addresses financial stress, isolation, guilt, and midlife transitions. Alyssa offers sessions in English for people located in Pennsylvania. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose formats that match their schedules and needs.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Alyssa uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT sessions focus on practicing new responses and testing small changes between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT-style work often involves teaching concrete tools to manage intense feelings and improve everyday interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alyssa will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between scheduled times. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep consistent contact with a therapist.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English