Alisha Phillips (She/her)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

I was trained to use the DBT program to work with clients with a range of presenting issues, such as borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. In my practice I will use DBT skills and worksheets with clients when useful and appropriate.

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

My training and practice in therapy primarily uses a CBT model- identifying the ways that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors work together and can lead to feeling stuck, as well as be used to make changes and grow.

ADHD

I have training as a Neurodiversity Specialist and combine therapeutic interventions for emotional regulation with education about the neurodiverse brain and executive functioning coaching. I also have lived experience as a person with ADHD, raised by someone with ADHD, and have a spouse and child with ADHD, and I want people to know that you can have an amazing, joyful, creative life by working with your brain's natural strengths and building supports for challenges.

PTSD

Traumatic experiences build a system of thinking and reacting to the world, other people, and oneself in a way that prioritizes survival and safety over connection and acceptance. Many people underestimate how their present suffering is actually rooted in past trauma and toxic stress. I have completed level 1 of Janina Fischer's certification program for Complex PTSD and have over a decade of experience working in trauma intervention and recovery.

Infertility

A club where no one wants to be a member. Infertility is fraught with layers of self-identity, grief and loss, and challenges to communication and self-care. I have had extended training in this topic, as well as personal experience. Specifically, my clients have faced difficulty conceiving, pregnancy loss, IUI, IVF, secondary infertility, male factor infertility, body image issues, medical trauma, adoption disruption, and more. If you're on this road, you don't have to do it alone.

Parenting

My professional experience prior to becoming a counselor was as a parent coach. I have also worked in crisis intervention for parents who have a child that has experienced trauma as a licensed counselor. My approach to working with clients around parenting has to do with examining layers of personal history from childhood, parental identity development, attachment theory, and practical coaching based on child development.

Postpartum

There are few more critically life-changing and difficult times in a person's life than the postpartum year+. Many women feel like their emotions at this time are "wrong" which leads to waiting to reach out for support. Often relationships with onself and others are tested. We are meant to have a caring, nurturing village and you are not alone! Please reach out, I will squeeze you in. I have training from WellMama, Baby Blues Connection, and Postpartum Support International.