Jalisa Lewis

Jalisa Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of clinical experience, practicing in North Carolina. She is licensed to provide clinical social work services in both North Carolina and Virginia.

Her clinical background includes work across multiple settings, such as an inpatient psychiatric hospital, a residential behavioral treatment facility, a medical hospital where she worked within a pediatric intensive care unit, and roles within higher education. These varied environments have shaped her approach to working with people facing depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, family conflicts, parenting concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger management, self-esteem difficulties, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

Jalisa takes a strongly client-centered stance, believing that the individual is the expert on their own life and that therapy should follow the client’s priorities. She uses a strengths-based and solutions-focused lens and draws on multiple therapeutic modalities to help people identify resources and build practical plans to reach their goals. She employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to explore the links among thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and she is trained in the evidence-based model of Functional Family Therapy, which treats the family unit as the identified client and focuses on engagement, motivation, behavior change, and generalizing skills beyond the home.

Jalisa does not take lightly the responsibility of supporting someone through difficult times, and her aim is to help people move toward a more empowered and peaceful life. Her professional interests include racial equality and ethnic diversity, women’s empowerment, and the connection between physical and mental wellness.

If a person feels in need of urgent help or is in crisis at any time during their work with Jalisa, they should call 1-800-273-TALK (available 24 hours a day) or 911. This forum does not provide emergency services, so it is important to contact those numbers for immediate assistance.