About Alesia
Alesia Dunlap is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps adults facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, anxiety, depression, and changes in life direction. She draws on two decades of clinical experience to offer practical, down-to-earth help. Clients can expect focused conversations that aim to identify small, doable changes.
Sessions are straightforward and goal oriented. She began her professional life as an industrial engineer and later returned to school for counseling.
How Alesia works
Alesia earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling and then built a broad general practice. Her background includes work with adults affected by sexual and pornography addiction and time supporting young men in a residential drug and alcohol program. Her methods come from approaches that prioritize the client’s perspective and measurable change.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge patterns of thought, and Motivational Interviewing to strengthen readiness for change. She also incorporates EMDR and Narrative Therapy when they fit the concern. In sessions she focuses on priorities such as codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, forgiveness, and rebuilding intimacy.
She helps people manage guilt, shame, isolation, and issues around commitment and control. The aim is to turn life lessons into useful, everyday coping skills. Alesia provides therapy in English and works within a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Her practice emphasizes clear steps, realistic goals, and collaboration so people can move forward at a steady pace.
Alesia lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Alesia works with
The areas below are the ones Alesia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Alesia often uses Client-Centered Therapy which emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions; this approach helps when someone needs a safe space to make sense of feelings. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at unhelpful thought patterns and tests small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. When trauma is a focus she may use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address distressing memories in a structured way.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then recommend options that fit the issue and the person’s comfort level. Treatment plans can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in will do. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, journaling-style reflection, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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