About Alisa
Alisa Branch uses practical, hands-on therapies to help people manage stress and emotional pain. She brings a warm, interactive style to sessions and focuses on giving tools people can use between meetings. Alisa wants clients to leave feeling more capable and hopeful about their lives.
Alisa has a Master of Science in Community Agency Counseling from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
How Alisa works
She holds the Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential, LCMHC, and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. Her background includes more than 14 years working in outpatient mental health plus earlier experience in inpatient settings and mobile crisis work. In sessions she blends several practical approaches.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are used to build awareness and promote change. Solution-focused strategies help set clear, doable goals and tasks between sessions.
Alisa works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and career-related stress. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, communication problems, infidelity, and isolation. Her style is interactive and supportive.
Clients can expect feedback, practical tasks, and tools to practice between sessions. The aim is steady progress through achievable steps and regular review of what is working.
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What Alisa works with
The areas below are the ones Alisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online therapy
Alisa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on clear steps and exercises that can reduce worry and improve mood. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for strong emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing results, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful for longer therapy work and visual connection, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people work through thoughts in writing across the week. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from home, work, or while traveling and to keep momentum between meetings.
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