Alesia Dunlap, LPC

Alesia Dunlap is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people dealing with relationship struggles, addictions, and feelings of emptiness or shame. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical next steps, helping clients address jealousy, communication problems, stress, and changes in life. Her style is down-to-earth and goal-oriented, aimed at small changes that add up over time.

She brings 20 years of counseling experience drawn from general practice and settings that included adults coping with sexual and pornography addiction. Her background also includes work in a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility. Alesia holds a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling from Lancaster Bible College and a prior degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech.

In sessions she uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused strategies, narrative ideas, and EMDR when appropriate. She emphasizes current choices and behaviors and helps people turn life lessons into useful habits.

Clients can expect straightforward conversation about patterns, triggers, and small experiments to try between meetings. She often helps people untangle codependency, commitment concerns, intimacy-related issues, guilt and shame, and the fallout from infidelity or family-of-origin problems.

Her aim is to help people build clearer thinking and healthier responses. Prospective clients who want to start can use the site matching process to schedule a meeting and discuss goals with her.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience in the moment, offering empathic listening and support so people can find their own solutions; it can help with relationship worries, self-esteem, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a method used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related reactions when those issues come up in therapy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions often mix brief skill practice, discussion of patterns, and agreed experiments to try between meetings so the plan matches everyday needs.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking since specific online formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to work by talking through problems, trying behavioral experiments, and using trauma-focused tools like EMDR when appropriate.