- Direct conversational style
- Focus on depression
- 12 years experience
About Alaine
Alaine Lagasse is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC and LPCC, practicing in Minnesota. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a straightforward, respectful style to sessions. Alaine talks plainly and directly, while keeping a calm and compassionate tone. She welcomes people who identify as straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning.
Before private practice she worked as a readjustment counselor supporting military veterans moving to civilian life. That work included helping people cope with combat- and sexual-trauma related concerns, relationship strain, substance use, and depression. She also has experience supporting people recovering from other kinds of physical and emotional abuse.
Alaine uses a blend of approaches to shape each session. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment techniques, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Motivational interviewing and client-centered methods guide how she listens and helps clients set goals.
Sessions are interactive and often direct. She values honest conversation and will challenge unhelpful thinking while also offering practical strategies for day-to-day coping. Expect to work on sleep, stress, mood, substance-related concerns, anger, communication, and life transitions when those issues come up.
Her practice also addresses longer-term or intersecting concerns such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, isolation, and caregiver stress. Alaine aims to tailor plans to each person's needs and to support steps toward clearer choices and steadier daily routines.
Before private practice she worked as a readjustment counselor supporting military veterans moving to civilian life. That work included helping people cope with combat- and sexual-trauma related concerns, relationship strain, substance use, and depression. She also has experience supporting people recovering from other kinds of physical and emotional abuse.
Alaine uses a blend of approaches to shape each session. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment techniques, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Motivational interviewing and client-centered methods guide how she listens and helps clients set goals.
Sessions are interactive and often direct. She values honest conversation and will challenge unhelpful thinking while also offering practical strategies for day-to-day coping. Expect to work on sleep, stress, mood, substance-related concerns, anger, communication, and life transitions when those issues come up.
Her practice also addresses longer-term or intersecting concerns such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, isolation, and caregiver stress. Alaine aims to tailor plans to each person's needs and to support steps toward clearer choices and steadier daily routines.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.