About Alisha
Alisha Dreiling is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama with eight years of experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and body image problems. Her work also includes support for ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with major life changes.
Alisha uses a person-centered approach that keeps the client’s experience central. She listens without judgment and encourages people to bring their whole selves into the room.
Background and approach
That means attention to feelings, thoughts, and how the body holds stress and emotion. Her practice blends somatic awareness with attachment-focused ideas and mindfulness. Sessions often include noticing bodily sensations alongside talking about patterns from relationships and family of origin.
This helps people make sense of how past experiences show up in daily life and close relationships. She also draws on Jungian ideas to explore deeper themes and personal meaning when that fits the person’s goals. The tone in sessions is supportive and curious rather than directive.
Clients set the pace and the focus of the work. Alisha offers several ways to connect, including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works clinically from Alabama and conducts sessions in English, and she accepts international clients.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to pair people with a schedule that fits them.
How somatic and attachment approaches translate to online therapy
Alisha often integrates Somatic Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centered work. Somatic Therapy focuses on noticing bodily sensations and how the body holds stress; it can help with trauma responses, anxiety, and chronic tension by bringing awareness to physical signals. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from past relationships and family of origin to understand how people relate now; it is useful for relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, and attachment issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and any past experiences that shape how they respond. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust as needed based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and the opportunity to notice facial expression and body posture. Phone sessions provide a simpler option when video is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or choose a lower-intensity way to share thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work even when travel or schedules make in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English