Dr. Alisa Bash, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for life challenges
About Alisa
Dr. Alisa Bash focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and depression.
Background and approach
She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what feels hardest right now. Many clients come wanting practical ways to feel steadier day to day and to reconnect with their own strengths.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thinking and change small behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy brings simple breath and awareness practices into daily life to reduce reactivity. Psychodynamic work looks at patterns that repeat from past relationships and how they shape current choices.
Dr. Bash has 18 years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential in California.
She blends talk therapy with body-centered ideas from her background in yoga and sound work, using what fits for each person. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful rather than full of jargon.
Her style leans toward collaboration: she helps people set clear, manageable goals and picks tools that fit those goals. That might mean short-term solution-focused steps or deeper work on attachment and abandonment wounds.
The process is paced to the person’s comfort and priorities. People who prefer sessions that combine thinking, feeling, and simple practices often find her approach helpful.
She offers online formats so people can choose the way that best fits their schedule and life demands.
How therapy approaches adapt to online care
Dr. Bash uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in many online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes, which can be practiced during video or phone sessions and as homework between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention exercises and breathing practices that people can try in short moments throughout the day to reduce reactivity and improve calm.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first based on their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made. This gives room for both short-term problem solving and deeper exploration when needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and do guided exercises together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, reflections, and written exercises that fit into busy days. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English