About Alisa
Alisa Sawyer is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people move forward from stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with concerns like self-esteem, addictions, relationship and family strain, trauma and grief, parenting challenges, anger, career questions, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Her approach centers on meeting each person where they are and finding practical steps that fit their life. Alisa blends several evidence-informed approaches to tailor sessions to the individual.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Positive psychology techniques are used to build strengths and notice small wins. Transpersonal ideas offer ways to explore meaning and purpose when that feels important.
With seven years of counseling experience and a master’s degree from the University at Albany, Alisa has worked in a range of mental health settings. That background gives her familiarity with common challenges people bring to therapy and practical strategies to address them. Her style is grounded in a client-centered attitude.
Sessions are collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all, and she prioritizes being present and attuned during conversations. Together with a client she figures out which skills and techniques are most useful for meeting immediate concerns and longer-term goals. Alisa practices in New York as an LMHC and conducts sessions in English.
She aims to help people notice their capacity to grow, identify manageable next steps, and build toward a more meaningful everyday life.
How evidence-informed approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where behavior aligned with values matters. Positive Psychology focuses on identifying strengths and small wins to increase well-being and motivation, which can help with low mood, self-esteem, and burnout. Transpersonal-informed work explores meaning and purpose and can support people grappling with loss, grief, or questions about life direction.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test techniques, adjust strategies, and decide what fits best for their goals and daily life. That shared process helps shape sessions so they feel relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people in New York and beyond. Video calls let sessions feel conversational and close to an in-person visit. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins and flexible ways to keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other busy schedules while allowing licensed professionals to provide ongoing support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English