Alaine Lagasse, LPC, LPCC

Alaine Lagasse is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a background in Minnesota and Alaska and 12 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, and she aims to help people take practical steps toward change.

Alaine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with acceptance and mindfulness approaches to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding. Sessions are interactive and direct when needed, with a focus on honesty and clear goals. She adapts the conversation and treatment plan to each person’s situation.

She has experience supporting people who have faced combat-related and sexual trauma and has assisted clients with substance concerns, career transitions, and relationship challenges. That background informs how she assesses and plans treatment, especially for trauma-related symptoms and co-occurring issues.

Alaine emphasizes compassion and respect for all identities, including people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. She also focuses on practical skills for coping with caregiver stress, blended family concerns, communication problems, codependency, and isolation.

Therapy sessions with Alaine typically combine thought-focused work, mindfulness practice, and values-based action. She helps people set realistic steps, track progress, and adjust plans as life changes arise. The goal is steady, usable change rather than overnight fixes.

How these approaches translate to online care

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. In online sessions this often means working through thought records, setting behavioral experiments, and tracking results between meetings.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when difficult feelings are present. Online work can include values exercises, committed-action plans, and short mindfulness practices to try between sessions.

A client-centered stance underpins these methods by keeping the conversation grounded in the client's needs and goals. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which tools to use and will adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper skills practice, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates and questions between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to try approaches consistently over time.