Alyssa Durdunji, LMFT
Available for Telehealth & Online Therapy
Let’s shape your life journey into one of growth, healing, and authenticity.
I am passionate about seeing lives and relationships restored. I recognize the courage it takes to come to therapy and believe that transformation happens in the context of compassionate relationships when people feel heard and understood. I believe we all develop protections and strategies throughout life that help us navigate our unique worlds and sometimes we realize that the armor that once protected us is now what’s holding us back. My hope is to invite clients into a safe collaborative space where we have the opportunity to honestly confront painful and uncomfortable issues that are holding people back in order to move toward wholeness. My approach integrates modalities including internal family systems, cognitive-behavioral, emotionally-focused, attachment-based, and trauma interventions that lead to insight, develop skills, and create healing.
Clinical Experience
I have worked with a diverse range of individuals, couples, and families in community, private practice, and psychiatric hospital settings. I do much of my work with individuals who have experienced various types of trauma through attachment-based EMDR. During my master’s work, I completed conflict management training for civil and family mediation as well as Prepare/Enrich certification for premarital couples. I am authorized to administer the Gottman Relationship Checkup and lean heavily on research from the Gottman Institute in my work with couples. I have a background in social work and outreach settings mentoring adolescents and providing basic needs, counseling services, and parenting classes in school settings and domestic violence shelters.
Clinical Specialties
Areas of special clinical interest include trauma, self-worth, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, life transitions, spirituality, couple/family conflict, substance abuse (including family members impacted by addiction), and grief/loss.
Education
M.MFT, Lipscomb University
B.S., Social Work, University of Arkansas
