About Alisa
Alisa Dunker is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, and ADHD. Her approach is down-to-earth and collaborative, aimed at helping people take manageable steps toward feeling better.
She uses a trauma-informed, client-centered style that emphasizes empathy and respect. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Alisa blends practical skills work with attention to life balance and wellbeing so clients leave with tools they can use right away.
Background and approach
Over 20 years in behavioral health has given her broad experience across many challenges. That includes work with substance use concerns, grief and loss, and the fallout from relationship disruption. She also has experience supporting adoptive parents and caregivers of children with disabilities.
Her clinical work often incorporates cognitive-behavioral techniques and brief solution-focused methods alongside mindfulness and holistic wellness practices. These tools aim to reduce distress, improve coping, and strengthen daily routines that support long-term change. Alisa practices in Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
She offers several online formats to fit different needs. Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s availability.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Alisa uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. These methods are useful for worries, low mood, and many ADHD-related challenges where structure and skill practice reduce daily friction.She also draws on solution-focused brief approaches that concentrate on small, achievable goals. This helps people make quick, practical changes and build momentum when life feels overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques, then adjust the plan together over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and short reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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