About Alysa

Hi, I’m Alysa (she/her). I’m a licensed mental health counselor associate (LMHCA) seeing clients in Washington State, where I currently offer online appointments only. I graduated in May 2025 from Antioch New England’s online program with an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I completed IFS Level 1 training at the IFS Institute in 2022, and I also have many years of experience as a client of IFS therapy (an experience I find strengthens my work as an IFS therapist greatly). I was trained and supervised as a career coach between 2015-2020 by Emilie Kromer, L.M.H.C., an established career and mental health counselor in Olympia, Washington.

The road I’ve taken to becoming a therapist has been circuitous and fulfilling. I hold an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a B.F.A. in Modern Dance. My professional experiences include teaching, community organizing, program management, research, childcare, and social work.

Identities, Positions, and My Commitment to Challenging Systems of Oppression

Location of Self by Alysa Haas

I’m committed to supporting people of all identities and social positions in my coaching work, including race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexuality, erotic and relational practices, trauma and grief experience, disability, body size, age, class, veteran/civilian, substance use, religion, and all other identities and positions. I believe it is vital for me and my clients to be able to discuss openly and with empathy any identity or position that affects the client’s life experience, as well as how my identities and positions may interact with those of the client’s during the coaching process. I believe that transparency about my identities and positions is an important starting point to establish safety, awareness, and the agency of the client to choose who they want to work with, when possible, or to ask me questions to clarify. 

Some of my current identities and positions include: multi-generational white American-born, English as first and only language, cisgender woman, straight, civilian, no personal experience with drug/alcohol/process addictions, raised protestant, currently agnostic, spiritual, and scientific, and life-long artist. I identify as an antiracist white person committed to working in community to dismantle the white supremacy inside me and around me as a way of moving toward collective liberation for all of us from the oppression of white supremacy culture and its capitalism. In addition to my whiteness, I experience many other positions of unearned privilege, and I’m committed to continually learning from people who experience all different forms of oppression. Since 2020, I have been actively expanding my understanding of gender identity and expression. I’m passionate about continuing to develop my cis co-conspiratorship with trans and gender expansive people, and I see this work as another layer to the collective liberation I believe in as a feminist and as a human. 

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