About Alyssa
Alyssa Whiteaker is a licensed clinical social worker who offers practical, steady support for people facing stress and emotional overwhelm. She brings six years of experience helping adults work through anxiety, grief, anger, trauma, and the everyday strain of work and relationships. Alyssa speaks plainly in sessions and focuses on what will make daily life more manageable.
Her approach centers on understanding each person's situation and strengths. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to untangle thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their values and take small steps toward them. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone wants clearer direction and encouragement to change. Sessions aim to be collaborative and hands-on.
Clients can expect opportunities to practice new ways of coping, set realistic goals, and build routines that fit their life. Alyssa pays attention to how ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence can affect focus, planning, and daily stressors, and she adapts strategies to those realities. She also supports people dealing with identity, body image, caregiver strain, workplace problems, and feelings of isolation.
Conversations address communication skills, boundaries, guilt, and forgiveness in simple, doable terms. The goal is to leave each session with one or two actions to try between meetings. Alyssa works with adults in Minnesota and offers sessions via phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Alyssa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, then practice small changes that reduce anxiety and improve routines. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another part of her work; it focuses on clarifying personal values and taking steady actions that align with those values, even when emotions are hard.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Alyssa will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit the situation. Over the first few sessions she checks what helps and adjusts the plan so therapy stays practical and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make regular work on goals easier. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone calls can be a good shorter option that needs less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and keeping momentum between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Coaching
- ADHD
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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