About Alisa
Alisa Sawyer is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings seven years of counseling experience and a calm, present way of working with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She aims to help people reconnect with what matters and move toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
Alisa uses an integrative, client-centered approach. Sessions are tailored rather than scripted. She pulls from acceptance and commitment ideas, transpersonal perspectives, and positive psychology to match techniques to each person’s needs.
How Alisa works
Her goal is to help clients build practical skills they can use between sessions. Her background includes a Master’s degree from the University at Albany and work in a range of mental health settings. That variety has given her experience addressing grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, anger, career concerns, bipolar conditions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people coping with major life changes and low self-esteem. In sessions she focuses on being present and listening carefully. Conversations often include values clarification, gentle experiential exercises, and behavior-based strategies to reduce symptoms and increase coping.
She emphasizes small, achievable steps that build confidence over time. Alisa invites people to approach therapy as a collaborative process. Together she and the client decide which tools to use and when to try them.
Her aim is to help people notice progress and move toward a brighter, more sustained sense of wellbeing.
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques work online
Alisa integrates acceptance and commitment ideas, transpersonal perspectives, and positive psychology into her online work. Acceptance and commitment approaches focus on identifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values; this helps with anxiety, depression, and decision fatigue. Positive psychology techniques aim to build strengths and notice what is working, which can lift mood and support resilience. Transpersonal perspectives bring attention to meaning, purpose, and broader life experience when that is helpful for a person.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She works collaboratively with each person to test techniques and see what fits. Clients and therapist revisit goals and adjust methods so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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