About Alisa
Alisa Hartfield Cordero is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 18 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, relationship intimacy concerns, and motivation struggles. She works with adults on addiction, grief, sleep problems, anger, career questions, and coping with major life changes. She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, and bipolar concerns.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps toward change. Alisa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood, thought patterns, and coping skills. She helps clients develop strategies for stress management, improve communication, and rebuild confidence.
Work often includes problem solving, reality-based planning, and skills practice between sessions. She brings experience with family-related issues such as blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, and divorce or separation. Additional areas of focus include aging and geriatric concerns, veteran and armed forces issues, prejudice and discrimination, and women’s issues.
People who choose her can expect a steady, respectful style. She aims to make therapy understandable and useful. Small changes are encouraged and celebrated as progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alisa uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build better coping skills. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying and shifting thought patterns that feed anxiety or depression, and they help with mood, motivation, and self-esteem issues. She also uses skills-based strategies that teach stress management, emotion regulation, and communication. These tools are aimed at everyday problems like sleep disruption, anger, caregiving strain, or improving intimacy through clearer interaction. Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to match methods to needs, goals, and personal preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as therapy progresses. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps concentration. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter, more flexible touchpoint is needed. These options aim to increase flexibility and accessibility while supporting steady progress.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English