About Alisha
Alisha Dreiling is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, parenting strains, anxiety, depression, and stress. Her goal is to give people a place to be honest and feel heard without judgment.
She uses a person-centered stance that keeps the client's experience central. Sessions focus on listening first, then working together to understand patterns in relationships, attachment, and self-image.
How Alisha works
Alisha draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current connections and on somatic approaches to notice how the body holds stress and trauma. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help clients stay present and manage overwhelming emotions. Jungian concepts may be used to explore personal meaning, life purpose, and recurring inner themes.
These approaches are blended to match each person's needs rather than applied the same way to everyone. Alisha also supports work on specific concerns like eating and body image, codependency, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and issues around separation or divorce. She pays attention to family of origin patterns and control or avoidance styles that can keep people stuck.
People who prefer flexible formats can choose online sessions by video or phone, or connect through live chat or text messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to the therapist's availability.
Alisha lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Alisha works with
The areas below are the ones Alisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
How online approaches help with relationships and trauma
Alisha weaves attachment-based work and somatic therapy into online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and helps people understand patterns that affect closeness and trust. Somatic therapy invites attention to bodily sensations and breathing to reduce tension and process stored stress, which can be especially helpful for trauma and anxiety.She also integrates client-centered care, which means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which techniques fit the person’s goals, preferences, and comfort level as therapy progresses.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or multitasking helps. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins, brief reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult.
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