JaLisa Giles

JaLisa Giles is an LCSW in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people 15 and older who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also supports those questioning their life purpose and facing issues such as caregiver stress, chronic illness, and isolation. Sessions are offered in English.

She uses a plainspoken, collaborative style and favors real conversation over formal therapy language. Sessions often mix Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with strength-focused work, psychodynamic ideas, and motivational interviewing to help people identify patterns and decide on practical steps. The goal is to move from insight to change rather than staying stuck in analysis.

JaLisa notes experience supporting people of color and working across multicultural concerns. Her background includes sustained clinical practice in multiple states, bringing a range of settings and client experiences into the room. She describes her approach as straightforward and client-centered, working with each person to set clear goals and reasonable steps.

In early sessions she focuses on what matters most now and what feels like the biggest obstacle. From there she and the client map small, achievable actions and check progress together. Conversations include practical skills for managing anxiety and depression, handling grief, and navigating transitions such as caregiving shifts or changes in relationships.

She offers a free consultation to hear a person’s story and clarify goals before committing to regular sessions. People are encouraged to use that consultation to see if the conversational style and plan feel like the right fit.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions

JaLisa often integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing into her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which helps with anxiety, mood shifts, and stress. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused way of talking that helps people find their own reasons for change and plan next steps.

She also draws on strength-based and psychodynamic ideas when useful. Strength-based work highlights existing resources and skills a person already has, while psychodynamic ideas look at patterns that repeat over time and influence current choices. Together these methods give options rather than a single route forward, and she will work with each person to decide which mix fits their goals and preferences.

Confirm current session formats before booking since the biography does not list them explicitly. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when days are tight, and reduce travel time so work or family commitments interfere less with scheduling. The practical aim is to make therapy manageable and useful while the therapist and client test which approaches and session rhythms work best.