Alisa Branch, LCMHC, LPC

Alisa Branch brings a warm, interactive, and accepting presence to her therapeutic work, focusing on practical tools and collaborative guidance to help people navigate life's challenges. She prioritizes feedback, assigns focused tasks between sessions, and teaches coping skills that clients can use day to day. Her goal is to help clients feel better about themselves and build sustainable strategies for managing stress, relationships, mood, and behavior.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master of Science in Community Agency Counseling from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC, which denotes licensure to provide clinical counseling services, and a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC, a credential that indicates professional counseling authorization. Alisa has worked in a variety of settings including community mental health agencies, private practice, community medical centers, inpatient psychiatric facilities, and mobile crisis teams, and has extensive experience providing outpatient mental health care.

Alisa draws on multiple treatment modalities to fit each person's needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Trauma Informed Care, and Solution-Focused techniques. She has supported children, teens, adults, couples, and families dealing with relationship struggles, grief, workplace stress, past trauma, self-esteem and behavioral concerns, decision making and communication challenges. Her clinical experience also includes work with major depression, generalized anxiety, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder.

Approachable and grounded, Alisa aims to be a steady source of guidance and practical support for individuals and families taking the important step toward improved mental wellness.