About Alyssa
Alyssa McCarley is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing from Texas. She brings six years of experience in mental health and a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Alyssa focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns.
She also helps with communication problems, guilt and shame, life purpose, and building self-love. She began working in mental health in 2020, with prior experience as a first responder. That background influences how she listens and responds to people in crisis or under pressure.
Background and approach
Alyssa has worked with people in recovery from addiction and those managing co-occurring mental health and developmental concerns. Alyssa uses a flexible blend of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She draws on cognitive approaches and trauma-focused methods, and incorporates skills from dialectical and schema-informed work when helpful.
Her sessions are collaborative and tailored to the person’s needs, not a single prescribed method. Sessions focus on practical tools and real-world changes. Clients talk through current struggles, practice new skills, and bring progress back to the next meeting.
She values seeing small gains turn into lasting differences over time. Outside of clinical work she enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time with family and her dogs. She aims to help people improve relationships and work through unresolved trauma while keeping the process straightforward and goal-oriented.
Approaches that guide online care
Alyssa uses cognitive approaches that help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. These methods aim to reduce anxiety, manage cravings in recovery, and support clearer decision making in relationships.She also uses trauma-focused techniques that help people process painful events and reduce their ongoing impact. That work can involve slowly revisiting difficult memories and building skills to manage strong emotions as those memories are processed.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Alyssa will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers several practical options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a full session is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, get brief support, or have shorter exchanges between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to work therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English