About Alaine
Alaine Lagasse is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, practicing in Minnesota. She brings 12 years of clinical experience helping adults work through stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and ADHD. Her manner is direct but compassionate, and she aims to create clear goals and practical steps people can use each week.
Alaine’s background includes work with veterans on readjustment from military to civilian life and supporting people who have experienced physical or emotional trauma.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward talk to identify patterns that get in the way, and then helps people try different strategies to manage symptoms and daily challenges. Sessions focus on concrete skills rather than long lectures. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices.
That combination is used to help people notice thoughts and feelings, test unhelpful beliefs, and commit to values-based actions. Motivational interviewing and client-centered ideas inform how she builds a collaborative plan. People who do best with her often want a therapist who is clear, action-oriented, and respectful.
She also emphasizes honoring sexual orientation and treating people with sensitivity and dignity. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and goals. If someone is looking to manage mood, improve sleep, reduce substance use, or handle life transitions, she helps break issues into manageable steps.
The focus is on what to try between sessions and how to measure small changes over time.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Alaine frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing ADHD-related routines.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that move a person toward a meaningful life even when unpleasant feelings are present. That approach can help with motivation, mood shifts, and coping with change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try based on goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Plans are adjusted over time so the work stays practical and useful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options aim to provide flexibility while keeping the focus on clear goals and steps people can use between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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