About Jalisa
Jalisa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. She supports parents, caregivers, and individuals dealing with parenting strain, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood changes, ADHD, and life transitions. Jalisa aims to make therapy practical and relatable so people can use it in day-to-day life.
She keeps sessions client-centered and strengths-based. Clients lead the direction and pace, while she offers tools that fit each person’s goals.
Background and approach
Her style mixes problem-solving with emotional support so people leave with clear next steps. Jalisa draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify values and find motivation for change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is part of her work with trauma when appropriate. Her background includes inpatient psychiatric settings, residential treatment, medical hospital work within a pediatric intensive care unit, and roles in higher education. That range informs how she adapts care for different challenges and life stages.
Jalisa centers multicultural concerns, racial equality, and women’s empowerment in her practice. She focuses on practical skills for managing anger, improving communication, handling family-of-origin issues, and rebuilding self-esteem. People looking for steady, collaborative support often find her approach direct and hopeful.
How online approaches meet your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when someone wants a values-based way to change behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills to reduce unhelpful patterns in daily life. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a trauma-focused method that many people use to process disturbing memories and reduce their emotional hold.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, past experiences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together you will try methods that fit your needs and adjust them over time so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English