Alisa Roberts, LMFT

Alisa Roberts is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Utah with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma, parenting challenges, mood struggles, and stress. Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs.

Alisa has worked across a broad range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, grief, addictions, and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses family topics such as adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, divorce and separation, and communication problems. Alisa applies straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people make meaningful changes in daily life.

In sessions she prioritizes clear goals and practical steps. She helps people name patterns, try new ways of relating, and build skills for managing stress, anger, or impulsivity. She also supports those coping with trauma, sexual assault, or military-related stressors as part of a paced, person-centered approach.

Alisa works with people across a wide age range and adapts her approach to fit each person's stage of life. She emphasizes collaboration, asking about what matters most and adjusting plans as progress is made. The work often includes skill practice between meetings and gentle accountability.

Reaching out for help takes courage, and Alisa aims to create a respectful space to explore change. To begin, she encourages people to consider what they most want to change and to take the next step toward getting support.

Approaches that guide online care and progress

Alisa uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building new skills. One approach involves skill-based work to manage symptoms like anxiety, impulsivity, and mood swings by teaching concrete tools to use between sessions. Another approach emphasizes relational repair and communication work to address relationship strain, attachment concerns, and parenting challenges by practicing new ways of talking and listening.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that match those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on how a person responds and what feels most useful.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since specific formats are not specified here. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, reduce travel time, and let people check in from different locations when needed. It can also make short check-ins and ongoing skill practice simpler to schedule around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.