Alissa Whelan is a Licensed Professional Counselor dedicated to empowering children, adolescents, and young adults to navigate personal challenges and achieve balance by improving their self-perception, worldview, and interpersonal relationships. She takes great joy in helping her clients uncover their passions and remove the obstacles that prevent them from realizing their best selves. Alissa focuses on modifying behaviors and dismantling unhealthy habits, promoting a lifestyle enriched with grounding, mindfulness, and self-compassion as an everyday practice. Utilizing a diverse array of techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and trauma-informed interventions, she tailors her approach to meet each individual’s unique needs. With a passion for yoga and meditation, Alissa often integrates these practices into her sessions, facilitating reconnection with the mind and body through mindfulness. Her clinical approach is deeply rooted in a strengths-based, person-centered philosophy, aimed at supporting clients in stress management, enhancing self-worth, processing trauma, assertiveness training, mood regulation, anxiety reduction, empowerment, and achieving a healthy work/life balance.