Alesia Dunlap

Alesia Dunlap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, addictions, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, trauma and the strain of life changes. She also supports people wrestling with intimacy and life purpose concerns.

Alesia draws on a mix of practical methods rather than a single technique. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters most to the person in front of her. She applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Motivational Interviewing is part of her work when someone is weighing change.

Her background is not a straight line into counseling. She holds a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and later earned an MA in Marriage and Family Counseling from Lancaster Bible College. She counseled in general practice settings and in specialty clinics addressing sexual and pornography addiction, and she has experience working with teenage boys in a residential drug and alcohol program.

In sessions she focuses on what people are doing now and the choices they can make today. She frames life history as useful information rather than a final verdict, and she helps clients turn those lessons into concrete changes in thought and behavior.

People who are unsure what comes next often find the practical angle helpful. Alesia aims to identify small steps clients can try between sessions and to clarify which problems to tackle first.

How her approaches translate to online work

Alesia uses Client-Centered Therapy in ways that help people feel heard and understood; this approach focuses on listening and reflecting so clients can decide what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thought patterns and behaviors, offering practical exercises and homework that can be done between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to process trauma and distressing memories through structured protocols when appropriate and agreed upon.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with the client about goals, past attempts, and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try first. That plan can change as sessions progress, and she looks for what helps the person make steady, manageable changes.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a full in-person appointment is hard to schedule. Some methods like CBT work well with written exercises and screen-sharing, while EMDR requires clear planning about how sessions are paced. Alesia and the client can discuss how to structure appointments to match daily routines and practical constraints.