About Alyssa
Alyssa Kirk LPC helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or drained by life's demands. She meets individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting strain, relationship tension, and career-related challenges. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help people find small, doable steps forward.
Alyssa is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 12 years of clinical experience. She also has a background in social work and experience connecting people to community resources.
How Alyssa works
In sessions she focuses on building a trusting relationship and on clear goals that matter to the person sitting across from her. Her work often uses client-centered therapy, which places the person's views and goals at the center of the process.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and interpersonal challenges. People come to Alyssa for a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, self-esteem, anger, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes.
She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and blended family concerns. Sessions are practical and focused. Alyssa helps people set realistic steps, practice new skills between meetings, and track progress over time.
She aims to make therapy understandable and usable in everyday life.
Alyssa lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Alyssa commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around the person's goals; it helps people feel heard and understand what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical strategies to shift them, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and relationship skills are important. DBT skills teach concrete techniques for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and tolerating distress without making things worse. Together these approaches give both space for personal concerns and tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Alyssa will partner with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions and adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people maintain face-to-face contact while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or eye contact is an issue. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short coaching, or step-by-step skill practice between meetings. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, steady follow-up, and different ways to use therapeutic tools.
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