About Alyssa
Alyssa Van Lopik is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, relationship struggles, and substance use concerns. She offers straightforward, practical care and listens first to understand each person's goals. Her approach centers on the client and on building real skills for everyday life.
Alyssa has eight years of clinical experience across a variety of settings. She has worked in inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, partial and intensive outpatient programs, and in independent practice in the Austin area.
Background and approach
That range gives her experience with both crisis care and longer-term treatment. She uses a client-centered, strengths-based approach. Clients guide the pace and focus of sessions while she helps identify strengths and small steps that move life forward.
Treatment plans are practical and goal-focused rather than abstract. To address symptoms and build coping skills, Alyssa draws from several approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see links between thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to build emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and healthier relationships. She also incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when trauma work is needed. Motivational Interviewing appears when people want help changing habits such as substance use.
Outside work, she teaches yoga and enjoys reading, cooking, and travel.
How Alyssa’s Approaches Work Online
Alyssa uses Client-Centered Therapy to put each person’s goals at the center of sessions. This approach means sessions focus on what matters most to the client and adapt to their pace and preferences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety and low mood, using homework and short exercises that translate well to remote work.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. These are taught step by step and practiced in sessions so people can apply the skills between meetings. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick the approaches that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lifestyles. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and skill coaching when visual cues help. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and flexibility around work or caregiving schedules. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English