It’s time to stop pretending that you’re fine.

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Alesia Dumas, LPC

Online therapist at Your Counseling Path in State College, PA and across all Pennsylvania and Delaware.

I’m ready to help you make sense of difficult feelings instead of hiding them.

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It feels like all the ways you’ve tried to keep your emotions neatly tucked away are starting to fall apart.

You can sense something’s off, but finding the words feels impossible — and even if you could explain it, you’re not sure anyone would truly understand or care.

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A rural landscape with train tracks and an old red brick building in Philipsburg, PA

When we work together, you can expect:

  • A space centered entirely around you — your feelings, your pace, your story

  • Permission to cry, swear, get quiet, or sit in the mess without apologizing

  • Radical acceptance paired with gentle, honest accountability

  • A growing appreciation for how your emotions actually make sense

  • More awareness of what you’re feeling while you’re feeling it

This is a space where we don’t rush your experience, minimize it, or hide from it. We look at it together — safely, slowly, and with compassion.

The methods I use at Your Counseling Path

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Licensed therapist Alesia Dumas providing attachment-focused counseling for adults sitting and smiling while holding a book titled “The Happiness Trap” in one hand and a mug with a dumpster on fire

  • A structured, research-based approach that helps couples improve communication, strengthen connection, and repair old wounds.

  • A compassionate, present-focused method that helps you build acceptance, flexibility, and resilience - even when your emotions feel overwhelming.

  • Practical tools to help you slow down, notice what’s happening inside, and respond with intention instead of instinct.

Let's work together

You don’t need more self-help tips. You need someone who actually sees you.

You share the memes and get the “same girl, same”, but you still don’t feel seen. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, watched the TikToks — and everyone else seems to have figured out the magic answer for being heard and understood.

People around you tend to notice your “faults,” not the quiet strength that’s been getting you through. You’re still invisible unless someone needs you to take care of them.

Therapy with me is about helping you to see yourself the way you want to be seen. You don’t have to feel confident to begin this work — we’ll uncover the part of you that already knows what you need.

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Licensed therapist Alesia Dumas providing attachment-focused counseling for adults standing by a street sign post in front of a black tile and glass window store front in Philipsburg, PA.

I’ve walked my own journey of learning that feelings aren’t dangerous and that “being enough” isn’t something you earn. That lived experience shapes my approach. I gravitate toward methods that highlight your strengths, honor your pace, and help you reconnect with the emotional parts of yourself you’ve had to hide or silence.

I draw from ACT, relational work, attachment foundations, and parts work — all with one goal — helping you understand and appreciate what you feel so you can finally move forward with intention.

Clients describe me as real, raw, and relentlessly human. I use humor — including dark humor — because sometimes laughing in the middle of the hard stuff is what helps us breathe again. I won’t pretend to be a perfect, polished clinician. I’m a flawed human who knows exactly what it feels like to not feel good enough.

In therapy with me, you get someone who sits with you in the heavy moments and celebrates the tiny victories. You get someone curious about your inner world, not judgmental of it.

My Guiding Principles

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Empowerment

You already carry strength, even if you can’t feel it yet.

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Connection

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Colorful flags hanging on a purple bar on a brick building exterior.

Therapy is a genuine relationship built on trust, repair, and honesty.

Inclusivity

All emotions and every part of you are welcomed and celebrated.

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Understanding Before Healing

You don’t have to rush change. We start by slowing down enough to understand what you feel.

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SPECIALTIES at YOUR COUNSELING PATH

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Licensed therapist Alesia Dumas providing attachment-focused counseling for adults sitting on the edge of a sidewalk in front of a faded white brick wall in Philipsburg, PA.

MY BACKGROUND

    • M.S. in Counseling, Capella University (2013)

    • Licensed Professional Counselor — Pennsylvania

    • Licensed Professional Counselor — Delaware

    • Gottman Level 1

    • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

    • Parts Work

    • Attachment-Based Approaches

Why
“Your Counseling Path”

You’ve spent a long time walking on other peoples’ journeys. Now it’s time for you to make your own way.

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A woman with tattoos on her leg and curly hair walks through a narrow alleyway between brick buildings, with greenery along the ground. She wears a beige skirt and a maroon shirt, and is photographed from behind. 
This is your path.

I’ll walk it with you — but you choose the direction, the pace, and what you’re ready to explore.

Every path has rough, scary, or overwhelming stretches.
It also has places where you pause to look back and see how far you’ve come. When you walk with someone who can steady and support you, those hard parts may not feel quite so impossible.

Schedule your free consultation —
and let’s begin your path toward feeling understood, grounded, and genuinely connected to yourself again.

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