Alesia Dunlap , LPC

Alesia Dunlap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with two decades of experience helping people navigate relationship challenges, mood concerns, parenting struggles, and communication difficulties. She began her professional life with a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, later earning an MA in Marriage and Family Counseling from Lancaster Bible College when she chose to shift into counseling as her children were leaving home. This background gives her a practical, problem-solving perspective that informs her therapeutic work.

Over the course of her career she has worked in a general practice addressing relationship and family issues, mood disorders, parenting concerns, and communication problems. She has also provided specialized care for adults facing sexual addiction and pornography addiction, especially when those issues are connected to histories of sexual abuse, and she has counseled teenage boys in a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation setting. Her clinical approach draws on solution-focused methods, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and client-centered therapy. Alesia emphasizes present-day thoughts and decisions and helps clients translate life lessons from their past into practical, effective ways of thinking and behaving.

Approaches That Guide Online Sessions

Alesia Dunlap integrates client-centered therapy into her online work, which means she focuses on each person’s unique perspective and supports them with empathy and respect as they identify goals and strengths. This approach is helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and navigating life transitions.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a practical method that helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop alternative ways of responding. CBT is often effective for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with change.

When appropriate, EMDR can be part of the toolkit to address trauma-related symptoms by helping clients process distressing memories in a structured way. Together with other approaches, EMDR can support recovery from abuse and traumatic experiences.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Alesia works with each person to explore their needs, goals, and preferences and to adjust techniques so therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single method.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing people to access skilled help from home or on the go. These options make scheduling easier and help maintain continuity of care when life is busy or circumstances change.