About Alyssa
Alyssa Crawford is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with six years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, addictions, and major life changes. Alyssa centers her work on understanding how attachment shapes relationships and day-to-day behavior.
She uses client-centered conversations to learn what matters most to each person. Cognitive behavioral techniques help break unhelpful thinking patterns, while solution-focused work sharpens practical steps to move forward.
How Alyssa works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person's needs. Alyssa aims to create a calm, direct space where concerns about grief, trauma, intimacy, or career direction can be talked through. She also helps people address anger, impulsivity, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Her additional focus includes blended family stress, caregiver strain, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin issues. Alyssa supports people working through divorce, infidelity, forgiveness, guilt, and isolation while helping them find clearer life purpose and coping strategies. Therapy with her blends practical tools and reflective conversation.
She tailors plans to fit each person's goals and life circumstances. People who want straightforward talk and actionable steps often do well with her approach.
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What Alyssa works with
The areas below are the ones Alyssa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Iowa |
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Online support options
How attachment and practical therapies translate online
Alyssa blends attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy into online sessions. Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy, trust, and communication problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches skills to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and impulse control.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then shape a plan that may mix attachment conversations, CBT tools, and solution-focused steps. The plan can be adjusted as needs change so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and hold longer therapy conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can serve as a simple check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief updates, skill practice, or check-ins easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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