Alyssa Van Lopik

Alyssa Van Lopik is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience providing psychotherapy across a variety of settings. She has delivered care in inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, partial and intensive outpatient programs, and through a private practice in the Austin community.

Alyssa works with people affected by depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, and a wide range of other concerns including stress, self-esteem, parenting and family conflicts, addictions, LGBT-related issues, intimacy matters, anger management, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.

Her approach is client-centered - she sees clients as the experts on their own lives and collaborates with them to set the direction and pace of therapy. Grounded in a strengths-based, solutions-focused perspective, she draws on multiple evidence-based methods. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), she helps clients examine links among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to identify unhelpful patterns. With Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), she supports development of mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation skills with the aim of expanding clients' capacity for joy and freedom. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to assist with healing from traumatic experiences.

Alyssa earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a Master of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. Originally from Chicago, she relocated to Austin, TX in the summer of 2017 to continue her clinical work. She is licensed to practice as a clinical social worker in both Texas and Illinois.

Outside of her clinical work, Alyssa is a Registered Yoga Teacher and enjoys reading, cooking, spending time with family, and traveling to new places.