Alisha BarnesLPC

Alisha Barnes is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. She uses straightforward, person-centered care to help clients identify goals and take practical steps toward change. Alisha writes with compassion and aims to create a respectful working relationship.

She draws on a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to tailor care to each person. Sessions often begin by looking at how past experiences affect current patterns. From there she helps people build skills, set realistic goals, and try new strategies between meetings.

Alisha trained with a graduate degree in clinical and counseling psychology and holds the LPC credential. Over eight years of practice, she has worked with addictions, trauma including PTSD, codependency, depression, and anxiety among other concerns. That background informs a trauma-aware stance in sessions while keeping treatment focused on the client’s short- and long-term goals.

Her style is open-minded and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes honesty and respect and works collaboratively so people can make meaningful behavioral changes. Alisha encourages small, steady steps and checks in to adjust plans based on what’s actually helping.

To begin, she asks people to identify what matters most to them and then builds a flexible plan. Her work supports those coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and intimacy-related issues, as well as more complex presentations.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking committed steps toward those values. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical ways to act despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and managing anger.

Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how early relationships influence current patterns. This approach can help people understand intimacy issues, attachment difficulties, and family of origin concerns by exploring relational habits and trying new ways of connecting.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are involved in choosing strategies that match their needs and preferences.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm available session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, reduce travel time, and let people meet from wherever they are. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-focused work to remote sessions so therapy remains practical and goal-directed.