Alisa Branch, LCMHC, LPC
Compassionate, practical support for everyday parenting challenges
Book with Alisa- Years in practice
- 14
- Credentials
- LCMHC, LPC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Alisa
Alisa Branch is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style that aims to make sessions practical and understandable. Her approach focuses on clear feedback, hands-on tools, and tasks to practice between meetings.
She emphasizes helping people build coping skills and feel better about themselves. Alisa pulls from several well-known approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to break down patterns of thinking and behavior. She draws on mindfulness and skills-based strategies to help manage strong emotions. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods guide goal setting and small, achievable steps.
Her background includes work in outpatient mental health, independent practice, community mental health agencies, and a community medical center. Earlier in her career she worked in inpatient psychiatric settings and in mobile crisis services. These varied roles shaped her ability to respond to both immediate stress and longer-term struggles.
Alisa helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, parenting, grief, addiction, ADHD, and eating and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses topics such as blended family challenges, communication problems, caregiver stress, and infidelity. Sessions are offered in English and she practices in North Carolina.
She combines practical tools, clear feedback, and collaborative goal setting so people can make steady progress in daily life.
What Alisa works with
Everything Alisa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Alisa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Alisa lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches you can use online
Alisa often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and patterns that keep problems going. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for intense feelings and relationship conflicts.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. That collaboration means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video lets you use visual cues for skills practice. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat or text messaging is useful for brief updates, momentary coaching, or when written check-ins feel easier to manage. These options give flexibility so people can keep making progress around work, school, and parenting responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Alisa
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family challenges, parenting, grief, addictions, ADHD, and related issues such as communication problems and caregiver stress.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and interactive with clear feedback and practical tasks. Sessions emphasize hands-on coping skills and steps people can use between meetings.
What is her background and clinical experience?
She has 14 years of experience across outpatient mental health, independent practice, community mental health agencies, and a community medical center, plus earlier work in inpatient psychiatry and mobile crisis.
What credentials and location are on record?
She holds LCMHC and LPC credentials and practices in North Carolina with licensure noted for NC LCMHC and VA LPC.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin work with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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