About Alyssa
Alyssa Sydor is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She has 15 years of professional experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, eating concerns, career setbacks, or depression. She focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters to them.
She uses straightforward, collaborative work rather than jargon. Sessions typically focus on practical steps you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns in thoughts and behavior, then helps clients test small changes to reduce distress and build confidence. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that let each person set the agenda. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when people need support with focus, self-compassion, or making a change. Alyssa often helps people troubled by body image, eating and food-related issues, codependency, guilt or shame, and problems tied to attachment or abandonment. She also supports those facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, substance concerns, or career-related distress.
Her schedule includes early mornings, late evenings, and some weekends. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, prospective clients follow the site matching steps and then schedule at times that fit both schedules.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Alyssa uses client-centered therapy, which centers on the person's goals and lets them steer sessions while she offers empathetic listening and practical feedback. This approach helps when people need space to talk through feelings and make sense of their experiences.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT often helps with anxiety, low mood, and eating-related concerns by giving clear, stepwise tools people can practice between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are another part of her toolkit, teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills are useful when strong emotions or impulsivity make everyday tasks harder.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will work together with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as work progresses so the approach stays aligned with what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which makes scheduling easier across busy days. Video enables face-to-face conversation; phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low; chat and text let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused touchpoints. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English