About Alyssa
Alyssa Ingle is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience helping people who face stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers straightforward support for concerns related to adoption and foster care, blended family issues, body image, domestic violence, and coping after disasters. Her work is based in Missouri and sessions are provided in English.
Alyssa takes a client-centered, practical approach. She focuses on what is working now and builds on strengths.
How Alyssa works
Sessions aim to teach simple tools people can use between meetings to manage emotions and handle conflict more calmly. Her therapeutic style emphasizes collaboration. She listens for what matters most, then helps set achievable goals.
Clients are encouraged to try small changes and notice what makes life easier over time. Over nearly two decades she has worked with people dealing with complicated histories such as dissociation, co-morbidity, dependent personality patterns, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD). She also supports those facing divorce or separation, communication and commitment issues, and control or codependency concerns.
Alyssa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s needs. She aims to make sessions practical and focused on everyday life. Outside of work she enjoys country music, pickleball, museums, Monet’s art, and shoe shopping.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Alyssa draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes solution-focused work, which looks for strengths and small steps that quickly make life easier. This method is useful for stress, relationship problems, and everyday challenges where simple, doable changes help most.She also uses trauma-focused cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage troubling memories and strong emotions by changing unhelpful thought patterns and practicing coping skills. That approach can help with stress after traumatic events, dissociation, or mood symptoms tied to past experiences.
Finding the best approach is part of therapy. She collaborates with each person to decide which techniques suit their goals and comfort level, and adjusts methods as progress is made. The plan evolves based on feedback and what helps in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for her work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for skill practice and emotion coaching. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions, share brief updates, or use messaging when a call isn’t possible. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain consistent progress.
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