Alisa Branch

Alisa Branch is a licensed counselor who aims to make therapy approachable and practical. She offers warm, interactive sessions that focus on feedback, tools, and homework tasks to help people build stronger coping skills. Alisa emphasizes straightforward support so clients can start feeling better about themselves sooner.

Alisa holds 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 is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia. Her combined career includes more than 14 years of work in mental health settings.

Her background includes outpatient mental health, private practice, community mental health agencies, and a community medical center. Before outpatient work she spent eight years in inpatient psychiatric care and mobile crisis roles, which shaped her practical approach to urgent and complex situations.

In sessions she uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. The work typically involves learning skills, practicing coping strategies between sessions, and setting small, achievable goals.

Alisa helps people address stress, anxiety, anger, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, depression, addictions, grief, parenting strains, ADHD, self-esteem, and related issues. She aims to guide clients through life changes with clear steps and steady support.

How her approaches translate to online work

Alisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her practice. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. DBT teaches concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can help with intense emotions and relationship patterns.

She also brings mindfulness techniques into sessions, helping people notice thoughts and bodily cues without getting swept up by them. Together these methods emphasize practical skills and small, actionable steps rather than lengthy interpretation. The therapist will work collaboratively to find which mix of approaches fits a client's goals, needs, and preferences as part of the early sessions.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online counseling can make it easier to fit work on skills into a busy week, offer shorter check-ins when helpful, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can guide how to use skills between meetings and help clients practice exercises during sessions to build momentum toward their goals.