Alisa Branch , LCMHC, LPC

Alisa Branch brings a warm, interactive, and accepting style to her counseling work, offering practical feedback, focused tasks between sessions, and coping tools designed to help clients build resilience and feel better about themselves. She emphasizes collaboration and clear guidance so clients leave sessions with concrete steps to practice and skillful strategies to manage stressors.

She 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 is credentialed as an LCMHC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and as an LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor. Those credentials reflect state licensure to provide professional counseling services in the region.

Alisa has 14 years of experience in outpatient mental health counseling and previously gained eight years of experience in inpatient psychiatric settings and mobile crisis work. Her career has included roles in community mental health agencies, private practice, and a community medical center, giving her experience across a range of care environments.

She draws from multiple treatment modalities to match each client’s needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Trauma Informed Care, and Solution-Focused approaches. Alisa has worked with children, teens, adults, couples, and families addressing relationship and family dynamics, grief, work-related stress, past trauma, self-esteem concerns, behavioral challenges, communication and decision-making difficulties, and other life stressors. She also has experience supporting people with diagnoses such as major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder.

Seeking therapy can feel intimidating, and Alisa takes pride in guiding people through that first step with compassion and practical support aimed at steady, meaningful progress.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. It is often used to address anxiety, depression, stress, and daily coping challenges by teaching practical skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy combines acceptance and change strategies and emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. It can be particularly helpful for people who struggle with intense emotions, relationship challenges, or chronic patterns of reacting that feel overwhelming.

Mindfulness Therapy cultivates present-moment awareness through simple attention and breathing practices. It supports reducing reactivity, increasing self-awareness, and improving day-to-day focus and stress management.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work and is explored collaboratively. The therapist will partner with the client to assess needs, goals, and preferences, then tailor methods and techniques that fit the client’s situation and pace.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate schedules, mobility concerns, and varied communication preferences. These options help make consistent care more accessible and allow therapists and licensed professionals to adapt how they work together while focusing on progress and meaningful change.