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Alisha Garcia, LPC

Clinical Supervisor

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Alisha Garcia, Clinical Supervisor at GearingUP
Alisha Garcia, Clinical Supervisor at GearingUP

Meet Alisha

Alisha Garcia brings a fresh perspective, professional enthusiasm, and her soothing demeanor to her clients at GearingUP. She is a supportive and engaged clinician who strives to make therapy not only warm and nurturing for her clients but also highly effective. She has worked in a variety of outpatient and inpatient settings in her early career and has crafted an excellent approach to complex counseling issues with children, adolescents, and adults.

Alisha Garcia, Clinical Supervisor at GearingUP

Alisha's Experience

Prior to joining GearingUP, Alisha developed her psychotherapy skills in a broad array of clinical settings. Recently, she was a program specialist at the prestigious Excel Center in Fort Worth. She led groups for children and adolescents to teach them effective coping skills to use at home and at school. She coached them on understanding and implementing these skills in the real world and helped them to decrease their emotional distress and self-sabotaging behaviors.

At Millwood Hospital, Alisha was an intake specialist where she conducted intake assessments, individual therapy, and group therapy on a weekly basis. She regularly dealt with emergency and crisis stabilization issues in an inpatient setting. Alisha has also been an early intervention specialist in a well-known public agency where she provided individual therapy for children and family therapy for both children and adults.

Alisha Garcia, Clinical Supervisor at GearingUP
Alisha Garcia, Clinical Supervisor at GearingUP

Alisha's Experience & Training

  • Child Individual Therapy
  • Adolescent Individual Therapy
  • Adult Individual Therapy
  • Marital Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Parent Training and Consultation
  • Mood Disorders (Depression/Anxiety)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Complex Trauma Disorder
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Phobias
  • Panic Attacks
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
  • Oppositional and Defiant Children
  • Defiant Teens
  • Anger Management
  • Grief and Loss
  • Divorce Grief
  • Family Conflict Issues

Specialized Training

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – completed over 55 hours of advanced DBT training
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Marriage and Family Therapy

Therapies Alisha Utilizes In Session

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    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

    The skills-based system and emotional regulation strategies in DBT were found to be almost universally helpful to clients looking to regain control of their thoughts and emotions. Much like CBT, researchers have shown that DBT is also effective for virtually any type of client – ages 7-60+, all genders and sexual orientations, all races and ethnicities, and more.

    GearingUP DBT
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    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

    CBT has been proven to be effective for many of the most common mental health issues, and the results have been easily replicated with different clients and different therapists time and time again. The combination of clear structure, easy implementation, and effective skills usage outside of the therapy office has made CBT the first choice of many therapists for decades.

    GearingUP CBT
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    Mindfulness Based Therapies

    A regular practice of mindfulness meditation every day could lead to significant benefits for practitioners in terms of mental clarity and focus, stress reduction, emotional calm, and much more. Researchers even found physical benefits like lower blood pressure, increased body awareness, decreased pain, increased immunity, and decreased chance of heart disease and other chronic illnesses.

    GearingUP Mindfulness
Alisha Garcia, Clinical Supervisor at GearingUP

Alisha's Accomplishments

  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Texas Wesleyan University
  • Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Texas Wesleyan University
  • Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas

In-Person and Online Sessions

Sessions are available in person at the offices below and online by secure video from home, and you can switch between the two whenever it suits you.

Alisha Garcia Reviews

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We LOVE Alisha! My husband and I both see her and she has been clear, constructive, collaborative and concise. She has years of experience and that background shines thru when she is counseling. We trust her implicitly and would recommend her to anyone wanting a DBT therapist that not only has a rich experience but can relate it to you in a way that comes across in easy to digest direction and, when needed, redirection.

My sessions with Alisha Garcia have been going great. I always feel truly listened to and that makes such a difference. She creates a safe space where I can open up and I feel supported and understood every time. I appreciate the way she is fully present in our conversations and it feels like she genuinely cares about my growth and progress.

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