Alaine Lagasse, LPC, LPCC

Alaine Lagasse is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 12 years of experience practicing in Minnesota. She has a background working with people who face stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, life changes, and ADHD. Sessions are held in English and she does not take international clients.

Alaine previously worked as a readjustment counselor helping veterans move from military to civilian life. That role involved supporting people with combat-related and sexual trauma, depression, anxiety, substance concerns, and career transitions. She has also provided counseling to people from many backgrounds who have experienced physical or emotional trauma or abuse.

Her style is interactive and direct. She favors honest conversation and practical steps over long abstractions. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters and act on it.

Alaine also uses client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and find their own reasons to change. In sessions she will talk through choices, identify patterns that keep problems going, and work on specific skills for emotion regulation and communication.

She lists additional focus areas including aging and geriatric issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, domestic violence, addiction, family of origin problems, guilt and shame, infidelity, isolation, and coping with co-morbidity. To begin, readers are asked to follow the site process to match and schedule an initial session.

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