Alyssa “Petersen” Domel, LPC, LPC-MH, LMHC

Alyssa “Petersen” Domel helps people who feel stuck by focusing on thoughts and everyday habits that shape daily life. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and relationship or family concerns. Her style aims to make change feel manageable and relevant to real routines and challenges.

Alyssa draws on nearly a decade of clinical experience and holds LPC, LPC-MH, and LMHC credentials. She commonly supports people with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, sleep troubles, parenting strain, anger, and major life changes. She also addresses attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, and issues around body image and self-worth.

In sessions she uses approaches grounded in attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means conversations that pay attention to patterns in relationship and thought, practical strategies to try between meetings, and a focus on what the person brings to each session. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior work and the Gottman Method when relationship skills are a focus.

Alyssa has experience with substance use and recovery concerns, trauma and abuse, and related coping needs. She supports people working through infidelity, divorce, forgiveness, guilt, and grief. Her work often includes hands-on tools for managing cravings, strong emotions, and everyday stressors.

To begin, people typically complete an intake and set goals together. Sessions emphasize clear steps, skill practice, and checking what works in everyday life.

How practical therapy approaches work online

Alyssa uses attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape emotions and behavior. This approach helps people notice patterns in how they relate to others and try new ways of connecting. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own goals and pace, offering space to be heard and to set priorities together. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors with simple experiments and homework.

Picking the right approach is part of the work. Alyssa will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and daily life. That collaborative process includes trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed.

The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when time is limited, or avoid travel. It also lets people use tools like thought records, behavioral experiments, and skills practice between sessions to make changes in everyday habits.