Alesia Bates, LCSW

Alesia Bates is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eight years of experience. She works with adults, young adults, and elders who are coping with stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her style is warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative, and she aims to walk alongside people as they face difficult moments.

She approaches therapy as a partnership. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-life changes rather than jargon. Alesia borrows from different methods to fit each person's needs, and she pays attention to life context such as work, relationships, caregiving, and aging concerns.

Her work often addresses caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and issues that many older adults face. She also helps with intimacy and relationship struggles, communication problems, self-esteem, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. Financial stress, career shifts, and midlife reevaluation are part of her focus too.

Methods she uses include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), the Gottman Method, and mindfulness-based strategies. In sessions she blends these tools to create a plan clients can try between meetings and report back on.

Alesia practices in Wisconsin and is available to international clients. She aims to help people move toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping, taking into account the whole of a person’s life and responsibilities.

How Alesia’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Alesia uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in straightforward ways. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client’s lead to find what matters most. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms.

She also incorporates elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) when emotional regulation and coping skills are needed. DBT techniques teach concrete skills for managing intense feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for stress, relationship strain, and caregiver burnout.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily demands, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they decide which strategies to try first and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.

Confirm current session formats before booking so you know how she is meeting with clients. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter follow-up check-ins, and reduce travel time. It can also let people use quieter surroundings, step away from work for a session, or join from another city when coordinating care across locations.