About Alyssa
Alyssa "Petersen" Domel is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical skills people can use each day. Her style aims to make hard problems feel more manageable for parents and adults juggling many demands.
Alyssa holds LPC, LPC-MH, and LMHC credentials and has nine years of clinical experience. She works with people coping with grief, relationship or family strain, sleep struggles, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with mood conditions such as bipolar and cares about issues around self-esteem, body image, and feelings of emptiness. Her approach blends attachment-based work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions often focus on identifying patterns, practicing new skills, and building clearer communication habits.
She also incorporates relationship-focused strategies drawn from the Gottman Method when couples or partners' patterns come up in individual work. Alyssa aims to meet people where they are and collaborate on goals that matter to them. She offers straightforward tools for managing anger, improving sleep, and reducing anxiety so life runs more smoothly.
The pace and focus are shaped by each person's needs and priorities. She provides services from South Dakota and offers sessions using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Therapy approaches and online care that fit your life
Alyssa uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and attachment-based methods in her online work. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms. Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns affect current relationships and helps people build safer, more helpful ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alyssa will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying strategies, reviewing what helps, and shifting focus when something isn’t working well.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and messaging works well for short check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options help people keep regular momentum while balancing school, work, or parenting demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota, Iowa, Utah, Maine, Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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