Anxiety
Worry that never quite switches off, treated with practical CBT so your days feel steadier.
Online Counseling in Louisiana
From our practice in Flagstaff, Arizona, Alethea Braun-Dunagan offers counseling by secure video to Louisiana adults and seniors, to couples, to families sorting things out together, and to children and adolescents finding their footing.
Currently accepting new clients
Request a Louisiana appointmentCounseling for Louisiana is provided by Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., a Licensed Professional Counselor with extensive experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults adjusting to retirement or bereavement. She sees individuals, couples, and families, and she also leads groups. You might come to her with anxiety, low mood, the aftermath of trauma, recovery from addiction, postpartum difficulty, or the accumulated stress of holding a household together. Her work is holistic and individualized, built on Cognitive Behavioral techniques rather than a single protocol applied to everyone.
Distances here are not always long, but reaching an office can still be complicated by a shift that changes every week, a storm that closes a morning, an hour of New Orleans traffic, or a young child who cannot be left. Meeting by video removes most of that friction. Families in Lafayette or Monroe can put both parents in one session without either taking a half day, an older adult in Shreveport can stay off wet roads, and a student moving between Baton Rouge and home keeps the same counselor throughout.
Counseling Services for Louisiana Clients
Ms. Braun-Dunagan works across these areas with Louisiana clients, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral techniques and a holistic view of what is happening around a person.
Anxiety, Stress & Social Phobia
Counseling for chronic worry, panic and the avoidance that follows it. Sessions combine practical skills for settling the body with a steady look at the thoughts that keep sounding the alarm.
Child & Adolescent Therapy
Work with young people is a particular strength, including advocacy on a child's behalf, resolving trauma, and restoring relationships that have been strained at home or at school.
Couples & Relationship Health
Partners meet together to address conflict, trust and the distance that grows when two people stop talking to one another. Attention goes to how each of you communicates under pressure.
Addictions, Recovery & Codependency
Relapse prevention is a long-standing professional interest. Counseling supports people maintaining recovery, and family members whose own habits have organized themselves around someone else's drinking or use.
Postpartum Adjustment
Mood changes after a birth are common, frightening and treatable. Counseling addresses lost sleep, intrusive worry about the baby, and the isolation many new mothers feel, with partners included where that helps.
Emotional Regulation & Anger Management
For adults and teenagers whose reactions outrun the situation. We identify the early physical signs, build alternatives that work in the moment, and repair what the outbursts have cost.
Concerns We Help With
Whether you meet us by secure video or in person at our Flagstaff office, these are the concerns we most often help with.
Depression
Low mood that drains interest and energy, met with patient, structured care that rebuilds one step at a time.
Trauma
Careful, paced work for difficult experiences, with you in control of what you share and when.
ADHD assessment and coaching
Clear testing when you need answers, and practical coaching for the schedules and habits that follow.
Young adults
Support through the first years on your own: school, work, independence, and the relationships that come with them.
Burnout and stress
For professionals running on empty: therapy for the exhaustion, and coaching for the work habits underneath it.
How Ms. Braun-Dunagan works with Louisiana clients
Our approach is holistic, individualized, and carefully paced for working professionals, university students, and busy families alike. Before any technique is introduced, we want a clear picture of the household, your work schedule, and who else is affected. We primarily employ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), proceeding in small, testable steps with practical exercises to try between sessions. If something is not working, we have a frank conversation about adjusting the plan. We do not offer a quick fix, focusing instead on steady progress. We also bring extensive experience with culturally diverse clients, which matters in Louisiana, where language and family tradition often shape how distress gets described and what help feels acceptable. Cultural awareness is integrated into every stage of the therapeutic process.
Your Louisiana counselor
Louisiana clients work with Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., a Licensed Professional Counselor and our intake specialist. Dr. Lusk's psychological services are not available in this state, so care here is provided entirely by Ms. Braun-Dunagan.
Counseling Services
Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A.
Licensed Professional Counselor
Ms. Braun-Dunagan provides counseling to clients located in Louisiana through the Counseling Compact™, and has availability for Medicare and TriCare clients.
Ms. Braun-Dunagan is a Licensed Professional Counselor providing individual, couples and family counseling as well as groups, using Cognitive Behavioral techniques within a holistic, individualized approach. Her professional interests include women's issues, relapse prevention for addictions, postpartum mood disorders, stress management, and work with culturally diverse individuals. She is also our intake specialist, and she has availability for Medicare and TriCare clients.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Ms. Braun-Dunagan’s licensure and areas of focus in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
How counseling across state lines is authorized in Louisiana
Louisiana is a member of the Counseling Compact™, an agreement among states allowing a licensed professional counselor whose home license is in good standing to obtain a privilege to practice in the other member states. That privilege is what permits Ms. Braun-Dunagan to counsel clients located in Louisiana. Membership and the operating rules are published by the compact commission at compactconnect.org, and the compact's own record governs rather than anything we might summarize here.
What the compact does not change is the rule that a counselor's authority is set by your physical location, not by the address on your paperwork. The privilege has to reach the state you are actually in when the hour begins. So if you are in Louisiana at the appointed time, we proceed; if you have traveled to a state outside the compact, we move the appointment rather than meet anyway. Let us know when plans change, and expect a brief question about your whereabouts as each session opens.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Counseling for Louisiana students and campus staff
College and graduate students suit video counseling well, since the schedule shifts every semester and many students would rather not be seen walking into an office near campus. Staff and faculty ask for the same discretion. The institutions below are the public universities and independent colleges whose students and employees live within reach of this service.
All Louisiana campuses we have worked with
Public Universities
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge)
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Louisiana Tech University
- University of New Orleans
- McNeese State University
- Southeastern Louisiana University
- Northwestern State University
- University of Louisiana Monroe
- Grambling State University
- Southern University and A&M College
- Nicholls State University
- Louisiana State University Shreveport
Private Colleges & Universities
- Tulane University
- Loyola University New Orleans
- Xavier University of Louisiana
- Centenary College of Louisiana
- Dillard University
- Louisiana Christian University
- Our Lady of the Lake College
Louisiana cities and towns we serve
Sessions reach clients throughout the state, from New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport to Lake Charles, Alexandria and Monroe. These are the places our current Louisiana clients call home, not a limit on where counseling can be provided.
Questions Louisiana clients ask
Do you offer psychological testing in Louisiana?
No. Psychological evaluations, assessment and testing are Dr. Lusk's services, and she is not available to Louisiana clients, so this page offers counseling only. If an evaluation is what you need, whether for a school, a diagnostic question or a legal matter, telephone (844) 774-7997 and we will tell you plainly that you should be looking for a qualified evaluator licensed in your own state.
Who can Ms. Braun-Dunagan see here?
Children, adolescents and adults, along with couples and families, and she runs groups as well. Her particular expertise is with children and youth, including advocacy, resolving trauma and restoring healthy relationships. Adults come for anxiety, mood, stress, support in recovery, postpartum adjustment and relationship difficulty. She also has availability for Medicare and TriCare clients, which some callers ask about early.
How does a virtual counseling session actually work?
You receive a link ahead of the appointment and join from a phone, tablet or computer at the agreed time. The hour looks much like an office visit: you talk, your counselor listens and asks questions, and you leave with something specific to try. What it takes is a private room, headphones if the house is busy, and a charged device. Sessions run over a confidential video connection.
Can both parents and a child take part?
Yes, and video often makes that easier than an office would. A parent can join the first part of a session and then leave the room; two parents in different places can attend the same appointment; a grandparent who does the school run can be included where that is relevant. We agree in advance on who attends which session and on what stays confidential to the young person.
What does it cost to start?
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Our office will go over any out-of-network questions with you ahead of the first session, and the staff can answer whatever the site does not address. The number is (844) 774-7997, and email reaches us at info@psychotherapy.com. Settling those details beforehand means the first appointment can be spent on the reason you called rather than on arrangements.
How to get started in Louisiana
Request an intake with Ms. Braun-Dunagan in our secure online scheduler. She handles intakes herself, so your first conversation is with the counselor you will be working with, and it covers what you hope to change and how often you would like to meet.
Prefer to talk first? Call or email the office.
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