About Alyssa
Alyssa "Petersen" Domel is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship or family strain. She uses clear, practical steps so clients can make steady progress. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at people who want real change without confusing labels.
Her approach combines attention to how early attachments shape current relationships with skills-based tools for day-to-day coping. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior strategies add ways to manage strong emotions and reduce impulsive actions. Alyssa has nine years of clinical experience and holds LPC, LPC-MH, and LMHC credentials. She practices in South Dakota and offers sessions in English.
Her background includes work with substance use concerns, mood disorders, trauma-related problems, and parenting stress. In sessions she focuses on practical goals like improving sleep, managing anger, reducing depressive symptoms, and handling life transitions. She also helps people address issues such as attachment and communication problems, codependency, and struggles with self-worth or body image.
Therapy sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire to connect and then schedule appointments based on therapist availability. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Alyssa blends attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral strategies to help people understand how early relationships affect current patterns and to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships, helping people notice how past bonds shape present reactions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical exercises to shift thinking and routine behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or sleep problems.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills when emotion regulation and strong reactions get in the way of daily life. DBT offers clear techniques for managing intense feelings, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Picking the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel for deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or reduce bandwidth needs, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and try different formats as needs change.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota, Iowa, Utah, Maine, Nebraska
- Languages
- English