About Alissia
Alissia Camuso is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with 14 years of experience. She focuses on addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with life changes. She aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and supportive for people who are nervous about taking that first step.
Alissia uses practical, goal-oriented methods during sessions. She guides people to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear strategies for managing mood swings, urges, or overwhelming memories. Her work includes helping with co-morbidity, codependency, drug and alcohol addiction, and process or sex-related addictions. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, impulsivity, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Alissia brings steady attention to the patterns that keep problems going. When trauma is part of the picture, she offers Trauma-Focused techniques to help reduce the hold of painful memories. For mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, she draws on structured tools to stabilize daily routines and mood regulation.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change. Sessions are conversational and practical. Alissia works with each person to set clear goals and check progress.
She encourages small steps that fit into real life and recognizes that change often takes time.
Therapeutic approaches for online recovery and change
Alissia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then practice small changes to see different results. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of past traumatic events and incorporates steps to reduce their influence on daily life and reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the first sessions. The therapist will work collaboratively to learn about goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English