Alyssa Coogan

Alyssa has been in practice for 7yrs and has specialized in Children's Mental Health Counseling and Family issues. Alyssa began her career with REACH as a DSP for 4+yrs as well as working as a therapist for Juneau Youth Services SBS program and also served as the Children's Program Coordinator and Child Therapist at AWARE for about 3yrs and has since been providing care at Aurora Behavioral Health as a Clinical Therapist for Bartlett Outpatient Psychiatric Services. Alyssa has a Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Children's Mental Health Certification.

Alyssa also has a Bachelors of Arts in English Literature. Alyssa also holds a certification in Sylvotherapy "Forest Bathing". Alyssa is a single mother that also owns AK Inverted, the Aerial Arts, Dance, and Pole Dance studio in Juneau, AK.

Alyssa is a professional Pole Dancer and Instructor and producer/productions manager of many performing arts programs in Juneau. Alyssa is a highly involved and experienced advocate in the Arts, Dance, Theatre, Sports, LGBTQIA+ Community and Youth and Teen Issues. Alyssa's simple pleasures are her cat, skiing in winter, hiking and traveling in summer, dancing, poetry and art.

Alyssa takes a client-centered approach with a very down-to-earth and straight forward communication style. Alyssa is solution-focused in her approach and encourages acceptance of emotions and learning to "sit with" difficult feelings.

Alyssa believes humor and comfortability is important in the therapeutic relationship.

Sessions with Alyssa are often psychodynamic and psychoanalytic. Your take away will be a review of several new perspectives, ideas, options and solution focused strategies to implement or simply ponder.

Alyssa ensures that sessions end on a good note, with grounding, meditation, or a goal-oriented discussion to leave you feeling validated, respected, supported, and providing you with ideas and strategies to implement until your next session.