Alyssa Van Lopik
Supportive, practical care for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alyssa
Alyssa Van Lopik is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a broad range of emotional and behavioral issues. She has eight years of clinical experience and draws on practical tools to help people manage stress, work through anxiety, and address substance use and mood concerns.
Her style aims to be straightforward and collaborative so parents can get clear steps and support. She has worked across many treatment settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and both partial and intensive outpatient programs.
Background and approach
She also has experience running a independent practice in the Austin, Texas community. That range gives her familiarity with crisis care and longer term therapy options. Alyssa trained at the University of Michigan for her undergraduate degree in psychology and completed a Master of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago.
She relocated from Chicago to Austin in 2017 and has practiced in Texas since then. Her credential is LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker, TX LCSW 64745. Her sessions are guided by a client-centered stance that treats the person as the expert on their life.
She blends evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to create plans that match each person’s goals. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, when trauma work is needed. Outside of therapy, she maintains a Registered Yoga Teacher practice and enjoys reading, cooking, and travel.
Her background aims to combine hands-on clinical experience with practical strategies parents can use day to day.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's priorities. In an online session this means the therapist asks about immediate concerns and then shapes each meeting around what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people see links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides simple exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns - it is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness that can be practiced between sessions to improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can be adjusted over time as progress is made or priorities change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, while phone and messaging options make it easier to fit support into busy days. These formats make regular, consistent care more accessible for people balancing parenting and work or living in different parts of Texas.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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