- Interactive and warm
- Homework and tools
- Goal oriented
About Alisa
Alisa Branch, LCMHC, LPC offers a warm, interactive approach that focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. She aims to be a clear source of guidance, giving feedback, homework tasks, and tools to build coping skills. Her style is straightforward and encouraging, with an emphasis on helping clients feel better about themselves.
Branch earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master of Science in Community Agency Counseling from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She holds a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential in North Carolina and a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Virginia.
Over 14 years of experience include work in outpatient mental health, private practice, and community medical settings. Before that, she spent eight years in inpatient psychiatric care and mobile crisis work. That range has shaped a practical, results-minded way of working with stress, anxiety, mood struggles, trauma, and substance concerns.
Her clinical toolkit draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. In sessions she combines these methods with clear goals, guided skills practice, and tasks to try between meetings.
People come to her for many concerns, including relationship and communication problems, grief and loss, parenting strain, codependency, addiction, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. She describes the first step as a collaborative process to find what will help most.
How Alisa’s Approaches Work Online
Alisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing alongside mindfulness practices to help clients address specific problems and build everyday skills. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and boosts commitment when facing habits or ambivalence.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple, present-moment skills for reducing reactivity and improving stress management. Together these approaches are practical and skills based, which can work well in remote sessions where homework and short skill practices are assigned between meetings. Alisa treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then adjust methods over time to fit progress and needs.
Session formats are not specified in the profile, so confirm current options before booking. The practical benefit of online work is that it can make attending sessions easier to fit into a busy day, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let clients try skills at home and discuss results in the next meeting. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively at a distance while focusing on concrete coping tools and real-life problem solving.
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Experience
14+ years
Credentials
North Carolina, Virginia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and communication problems, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief, parenting strain, codependency, ADHD, and related issues.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is interactive and warm, with feedback and practical tasks between sessions. She emphasizes skills practice and clear goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience in mental health settings, including outpatient care, private practice, inpatient psychiatric care, and mobile crisis work.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LCMHC and LPC credentials and practices from North Carolina with licensure listed in North Carolina and Virginia.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can she see clients outside the United States?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a therapy match?
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