Alisa Kamis-Brinda

When people find Alisa Kamis-Brinda, they are usually caught in a cycle they can’t break on their own — snapping at the people they love, backing away from situations that feel threatening, or reaching for substances to take the edge off feelings that keep coming back anyway. Alisa works with adults navigating anxiety, anger, addiction, mood disorders, and the particular pressures of parenting and partnership. She also brings personal experience of anxiety to that work, which shapes how she listens and what she understands without needing to be explained.

Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness — tools that help clients notice what they are feeling before they act on it. Mindfulness practice, for instance, builds the pause between a ping, a provocation, or a craving and the response that follows, which is exactly where choices get made. The goal is not to eliminate difficult emotions but to stop letting them make decisions. Clients leave sessions with concrete skills, not just insight.

Alisa offers individual and group therapy, with sessions available online. She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for over twenty years and practices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.