About Alysia
Dr. Alysia Smith uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns. She has six years of clinical experience and holds the credentials LPC and LCPC.
Dr. Smith speaks plainly and focuses on real skills people can use between sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and tolerating strong feelings without making problems worse.
How Alysia works
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change when they feel stuck. Dr. Smith helps with depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship concerns.
She also supports people facing career stress, parenting strain, eating struggles, and issues related to identity and LGBT challenges. Additional focuses include forgiveness work, guilt and shame, life purpose, and seasonal mood shifts. Her training includes a doctorate in developmental psychology and masters degrees in professional counseling and human service counseling with a cognate in addiction and recovery.
She practices as a licensed professional counselor in Wisconsin with a license as an LCPC in Kansas listed as LCPC. In sessions she centers each person’s strengths and priorities. She aims to build skills you can use right away and to create a plan that fits your life.
The first step is often a short assessment and a mutual decision about next steps.
Alysia lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Alysia works with
The areas below are the ones Alysia 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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Online approaches that build practical coping skills
Dr. Smith commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. CBT focuses on small, actionable changes and clear skills to practice between sessions.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can be helpful when emotions feel intense or when relationships trigger repeated conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then recommend a plan. That plan can change as needs shift, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video lets people cover material that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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