- Years in practice
- 9
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Jalisa
Jalisa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of practice. She focuses on parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship issues. She keeps sessions centered on each person’s goals and life experience.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Jalisa draws on practical methods to help people identify strengths and change patterns that get in the way. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to map how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help clients clarify values and take small, meaningful steps toward them. Her work history includes inpatient psychiatric care, residential behavioral treatment, medical hospital settings including a pediatric intensive care unit, and higher education environments. That mix gives her experience with both crisis work and longer-term planning.
She has offered individual, group, and family interventions across those settings. Jalisa emphasizes a strengths-based, solutions-focused frame. She helps parents and individuals set concrete goals and practice skills between sessions.
Sessions are paced to fit what each person can manage and build on what already works in their lives. Many people seek her support for parenting stress, caregiver strain, grief, and coping with life changes. She also addresses issues such as ADHD, postpartum depression, multicultural concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her focus is on practical steps that improve day-to-day functioning and relationships.
What Jalisa works with
Everything Jalisa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Jalisa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jalisa lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It can be useful when parenting feels overwhelming or when life changes make it hard to focus. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at links between thoughts, emotions, and behavior and offers simple exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is practical for anxiety, low mood, and everyday parenting stress. EMDR is an approach used to process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life; it is commonly applied when trauma or abuse affects functioning.Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences. Techniques can be combined and adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, tracking progress, and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
Questions people ask about Jalisa
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people with parenting stress, relationship and family strain, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is client-centered and strengths-based. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and building on what already works for each person.
What kinds of settings has she worked in?
Her background includes inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential behavioral treatment facilities, a medical hospital pediatric intensive care unit, and work in higher education over nine years.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds LCSW credentials and is licensed as an NC LCSW and VA LCSW. She practices out of North Carolina.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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