About Alissa
Alissa Schneider is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing life shifts, stress, attention challenges, and questions about work or parenting. Her style aims for clear, doable steps rather than long, unfocused sessions.
Her background includes a decade of counseling across age ranges, and she offers an approach rooted in practical problem solving. She favors short-term work when that fits the person's goals, helping people create immediate changes that can last.
Background and approach
Many clients come with worries about focus, sleep, confidence, or handling a major life transition. Alissa uses techniques drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions. That means conversations often center on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, identifying values and next steps, and setting small goals that build momentum.
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented rather than abstract. She also integrates personal beliefs when clients request faith-informed perspectives, keeping the conversation centered on what matters to the person. Alissa pays attention to how stress shows up in daily life and works with people to develop routines and strategies that fit their schedules.
People looking for help with parenting challenges, focus at work or school, career decisions, or managing anxiety and depression will find a practical and collaborative approach. She communicates in plain language and supports clients in making tangible changes one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed actions that align with those values. It helps people move toward a life they care about even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on strengths and small, achievable steps to reach concrete goals rather than dwelling on problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, and then pick or combine methods that fit. That makes sessions collaborative and tailored to each person's needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules. Video lets people keep visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work with less bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and use strategies in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English