About Alisa
Dr. Alisa Bash helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and depression. She introduces simple, usable tools so people can start feeling steadier between sessions.
Her tone is calm and encouraging, aimed at someone who needs practical support right away. She uses a blend of approaches to match what each person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and change unhelpful behavior.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with grounding and managing anxiety as it arises.
How Alisa works
Her background includes 18 years working as a licensed marriage and family therapist in California. She holds the LMFT credential and draws on that clinical experience when helping people navigate tough life events like divorce, separation, and losses. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and step-by-step changes.
Dr. Bash pays attention to how past relationships and attachment patterns affect present choices. That perspective guides work on abandonment, avoidant personality traits, commitment struggles, and communication problems.
Practical exercises and reflection are mixed across sessions to help people try new ways of relating. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, codependency, dissociation, blended family stress, and body-image concerns. Therapy usually pairs short-term skills with deeper conversations about patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages.
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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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Dr. Bash uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to address symptoms and build coping skills. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that suit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. Clients help shape which techniques are emphasized so work feels useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people have deeper conversations with visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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