Therapist profile
Alesia Dunlap, LPC
Pennsylvania
Licensed Professional Counselor - Relationships and Addictions
Continue with AlesiaWhere Alesia stands
- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LPC, Pennsylvania / PC012804
- NPI
- 1851989297
- Experience
- 20 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Pennsylvania
About
- CBT methods
- Client-centered approach
- Motivational interviewing
About Alesia
Alesia Dunlap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 20 years of experience. She works with adults who face relationship stress, addiction, parenting struggles, and difficulties with mood or communication. Her listed concerns include codependency, intimacy problems, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
She began her professional life in industrial engineering before shifting to counseling later in life. After earning an MA in Marriage and Family Counseling from Lancaster Bible College, she moved into clinical practice. That varied path informs how she approaches challenges now.
Alesia favors clear, practical work in sessions. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect, cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking, and solution-focused tools to set manageable goals. Motivational interviewing is part of how she helps people find reasons to change.
Her experience includes general practice work around relationships and mood, specialized work with adults facing sexual and pornography addiction, and time counseling teenage boys in a residential drug and alcohol program. She draws on those settings when addressing addiction, family-of-origin issues, and communication problems.
In a session someone can expect straightforward conversation, goal setting, and homework or practice between meetings when useful. The focus is on what someone can try now to change patterns that leave them feeling controlled, guilty, or stuck. Alesia helps people name issues, test small changes, and track what works.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and how online work can fit
Alesia often draws on client-centered therapy, which means listening closely and reflecting a person's experience so they can decide the next steps. This approach helps when someone needs to name what matters most and feel heard before making changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to spot patterns of thinking that keep problems going and to practice different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, relationship thinking, and codependency patterns where thoughts lead to people-pleasing or avoidance.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) appears in her listed approaches and can be used to work with trauma-related memories by processing upsetting experiences so they feel less overwhelming.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, preferences, and what they want to change. That may mean trying one method for several sessions and shifting if needed.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific formats she currently offers before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier, cut travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when days are busy. It can also let someone continue therapy while managing family or work responsibilities, while the therapist helps adapt exercises and homework to fit everyday life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address related to codependency?
She lists codependency among issues she works with and helps people who repeatedly put others first or struggle with people-pleasing patterns.
What is her general therapy style?
She blends client-centered conversation with solution-focused and cognitive behavioral tools to set goals and try concrete changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of counseling experience across general practice, addiction settings, and residential treatment work with adolescents.
What credential and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify formats, so confirm current session options before booking.
How do costs and payments work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.