A Grounded Space to Untangle the Noise—and Begin to Feel Like Yourself Again

Somewhere along the way, managing life became less about living and more about bracing yourself for the next wave. Alyshia understands how overwhelming it can be to hold it all together while quietly unraveling underneath. In therapy with Alyshia, you simply arrive—and she’s already in your corner.

As LifeBalance’s Clinical Director and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Alyshia brings nearly a decade of experience working with people who are ready for change and unsure where to begin. Alyshia creates a space where messiness is allowed, stories unfold slowly, and healing happens at your pace.

Whether you’re moving through anxiety that’s become all-consuming, struggling with the weight of low self-worth, navigating past trauma, or just feeling stuck in a life that no longer fits— Alyshia can help.

Alyshia believes therapy should help you build skills to manage what life throws at you while reconnecting to what matters most. Alyshia helps you to explore your internal world with honesty, regulation, and a sense of agency.

In sessions with Alyshia, you might:

- Build emotional regulation strategies that feel doable in everyday life
- Understand your patterns and reshape unhelpful narratives
- Reconnect with your inner strengths and learn to trust them again
- Practice boundaries without guilt and self-compassion without apology
- Move from stuckness into small, meaningful momentum
- Feel more grounded and less consumed by the weight of “holding it all together”

Clients describe Alyshia as clear, reassuring, and quietly powerful. Her support doesn’t feel like fixing—it feels like someone walking beside you while you figure out what healing looks like for you.

Therapy with Alyshia is a chance to stop surviving and start remembering who you are underneath it all.

A Calm Presence When the Ground Feels Unsteady

Brett knows that some seasons of life just feel heavier than others—and that it’s not always easy to name why. Maybe you're grieving something (or someone) and aren't even sure what you're supposed to do with it. Maybe you're burnt out, stuck in self-doubt, or just feeling lost in the swirl of too many changes. Wherever you are, Brett offers a steady hand and an open, nonjudgmental space to land.

With over a decade of experience and certification as an Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, Brett supports adults through life transitions, losses (both visible and invisible), and moments of deep emotional overwhelm. He brings a calm, grounded energy to each session—meeting you with quiet encouragement, thoughtful reflection, and zero pressure to “have it all figured out.”

Brett helps people slow down, make sense of what they’re carrying, and reconnect with the parts of themselves that get lost under stress, perfectionism, or long-standing patterns. His approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, drawing from trauma-informed care, strengths-based work, and mindfulness practices. He’s also experienced in supporting folks navigating ADHD, identity shifts, substance use and recovery and burnout recovery.

When you work with Brett, you can expect to:

- Feel seen and understood—without needing to over-explain
- Process grief and change at your own pace
- Rebuild self-trust and emotional resilience
- Learn practical coping tools that actually work for you

Explore who you are becoming, not just who you’ve been

When working with Brett you will feel like you have room to breathe and be human. Brett doesn’t offer quick fixes or textbook answers—he offers presence, perspective, and a sense that you’re not alone in whatever you’re going through.

Therapy That Gets Real—Without Losing Compassion

There’s a certain kind of relief that comes from talking to someone who isn’t trying to fix you—just trying to understand you. That’s what it’s like to work with Evan.

Evan Berg is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who shows up with honesty, patience, and respect for the full complexity of who you are. His work isn’t about surface-level solutions or checklists—it’s about helping you make sense of your internal landscape, identify what’s not working, and move toward change that feels sustainable.

If you're feeling emotionally overloaded, stretched between competing roles, stuck in patterns that don’t make sense anymore, or simply unsure what you need—Evan can help. Evan will support you to slow down, zoom out, and start asking better questions. If you are an adult facing burnout, identity shifts, stress from high-responsibility roles, and the quiet grief of unmet expectations, Evan is your therapist.

With training in trauma-informed care, systems theory, and behavioral approaches, Evan blends insight with practical strategies—always shaped by your goals and values. He doesn’t assume; he gets curious. He doesn’t rush; he reflects. And he’s not afraid to name the hard stuff and he always does it with care.

He’s someone you can show up to fully—especially when you're not at your best—and still feel respected, even understood.

In therapy with Evan, you can expect to:

- Untangle the mental clutter and reconnect with your own voice
- Build boundaries without guilt or over explaining
- Explore how your past is impacting your present—without getting stuck there
- Learn skills to manage stress, regulate emotions, and stay present
- Feel less alone in the mess, and more capable of navigating it

Whether you’re in the room with him in Rochester or meeting virtually, Evan creates space for honesty, healing, and growth.

Straight Talk. Deep Care. Real Change.

Working with Stacy isn’t about sugar-coating things. She’s the kind of therapist who will meet you exactly where you are—with honesty, humor, and a whole lot of heart. If you're looking for someone who can help you cut through the noise, face the hard stuff, and still laugh along the way, you're in the right place.

Stacy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in both New Hampshire and Maine, and a Master’s Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor with over two decades of experience supporting people navigating the most human parts of being human. Whether you’re working through substance use, supporting someone who is, or just trying to hold your life together without falling apart—Stacy offers a rare blend of directness and warmth that helps people feel both supported and challenged.

She’s especially skilled at helping folks who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by old patterns—people who are ready to shift but aren’t quite sure how. That might look like building a more balanced relationship with alcohol, untangling grief, managing ADHD, navigating burnout, or just learning how to actually take care of yourself in the middle of all the chaos.

Stacy doesn’t do therapy from a pedestal. Stacy brings practical tools to the table—but also knows when what’s really needed is to sit with you in the heaviness, without trying to fix it right away.

In her office, it’s okay to be a mess. It’s okay to laugh. It’s okay to say the thing you’ve never said out loud.

When you work with Stacy you’ll:

- Get honest about what’s working—and what’s really not
- Explore your relationship with substances and coping patterns, without shame
- Build emotional regulation skills and better boundaries
- Strengthen communication in relationships (including with yourself)
- Feel more grounded, more clear, and more in charge of your choices

Clients often describe her as “refreshingly real” and “exactly what I needed.” She won’t just nod and ask how that makes you feel—she’ll help you figure out what to do with those feelings, and how to move forward with a little more hope, resilience, and confidence.

Therapy with Stacy is the kind of work that doesn’t end when the session does.

For the Moments When Talking Just Isn’t Enough

Not everything can be put into words. Sometimes the things we carry live in our shoulders, in our stomachs, in the spaces between thoughts—and that’s where Susan begins.

Susan Hamann is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than 15 years of experience helping people slow down, get curious about their inner experience, and find solid ground again. Her approach is gentle but anchored, intuitive but structured. She’s not afraid of big emotions, long silences, or the messy middle of healing.

She works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families who are navigating the rough patches—the anxious spirals, the stuck relationships, the grief that lingers longer than expected, the tension that never seems to leave your body. Her work blends talk therapy with Trauma Informed Yoga Certification woven in, helping you tune into what’s happening beneath the surface and reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been buried by stress, trauma, or the pressure to “keep it together.”

With Susan, there’s room to sit with what’s hard without needing to explain it right away. She’s skilled at helping people who have always been the “strong one” let their guard down, and people who’ve never tried therapy feel safe enough to try.

When you work with Susan, you might learn to:

- Notice how anxiety shows up in your body—and how to soften it
- Start listening to what your emotions are actually trying to tell you
- Move through conflict with more clarity and less reactivity
- Understand the old patterns you’re ready to release
- Feel more present, more connected, and more fully you

Clients who work with Susan say she is calm and deeply attuned. She offers more than a space to vent—she offers a space to reconnect, realign, and root back into your own strength.

Therapy with Susan is about remembering that healing is possible.

*Not accepting clients at this time

Gentle Clarity in the Midst of Emotional Storms

There are moments in life when it all just feels like too much—when grief blurs the edges of your days, when anxiety won’t loosen its grip, when your inner world feels too tangled to face alone. Kaleigh Santa Clara offers a space to slow down, make sense of the weight you’ve been carrying, and begin—gently—moving through it.

Kaleigh is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Grief Informed Professional who works with teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and loss in all its forms. With her, therapy doesn’t require you to have it all figured out. Her quiet strength and thoughtful presence invite you to bring your full self—uncertainty, sadness, numbness, messiness—and be met with respect, care, and calm.

Her work is especially supportive for those moving through ambiguous or disenfranchised grief, painful life transitions, or complex emotional histories that feel difficult to name. Kaleigh offers more than emotional support—she brings skilled, evidence-informed guidance shaped to your unique pace and needs.

You won’t be pushed. You won’t be pathologized. You’ll be supported—step by step—as you find your way back to steadiness, clarity, and connection.

In therapy with Kaleigh, you may:

Begin to untangle the emotional fog and name what’s been too heavy to carry alone

Gently reconnect with parts of yourself that feel distant, hidden, or shut down

Learn how grief, trauma, or chronic stress may be shaping your inner world—and how to heal

Build emotional regulation tools that feel natural and empowering

Discover how to honor your story without being defined by it

Kaleigh offers not just a place to talk—but a space to heal, to be deeply witnessed, and to rediscover your own strength, even in life’s most tender seasons.

Real Talk, Real Growth, Real You

If therapy has felt like a chore or a guessing game, Leslie’s approach is here to change that. She’s not about jargon or pressure—she’s about clear-eyed kindness and practical insight that helps you make sense of what’s going on, without glossing over the tough stuff.

With 15 years as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Leslie helps folks break down those sticky, repetitive patterns that keep holding them back. She’s big on helping you tap into your own strengths—sometimes ones you didn’t even realize you had—and figure out how to live more authentically, without the old scripts.

People who work with Leslie say she’s easy to talk to, refreshingly straightforward, and deeply thoughtful. Her style combines solid clinical know-how with a warm, “I get it” attitude.

Here’s what you’ll find in sessions with Leslie:

A judgment-free zone to explore what’s really going on beneath the surface

Tools to deal with stress that don’t feel like another item on your to-do list

Ways to build emotional grit without shutting down or checking out

Help understanding how your body and emotions talk to each other—and what that means for your relationships

Gentle nudges to stretch out of comfort zones, but at a pace that feels doable

Leslie’s not here to hand you a roadmap—she’s here to help you draw your own. If you want therapy that’s grounded, honest, and infused with a little bit of heart, this might be the place you’ve been looking for.

Someone You Can Talk to When It All Feels Like Too Much

Sarah knows that life gets messy—and that sometimes, the hardest part is just figuring out where to begin. With over 10 years of experience supporting children, teens, and families in diverse settings, she now focuses on helping adults—especially those in young to middle adulthood—who feel overwhelmed, stretched thin, or stuck on autopilot.

Maybe your mind won’t stop racing. Maybe your to-do list keeps growing, but your motivation and energy are nowhere to be found. Whether it’s anxiety, executive dysfunction, or complicated relationships that are weighing you down, Sarah brings clarity, kindness, and calm to each session, helping you sort through the noise and start moving forward.

As a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, with certification in Solution Focused Therapy and training in Internal Family Systems, Sarah takes a trauma-informed, culturally inclusive approach that’s centered on you. She meets you where you are—not where you “should” be—and helps you:

Quiet your inner critic and challenge negative thought patterns

Build emotional resilience and better coping strategies

Reconnect with your values, goals, and sense of purpose

Create more structure, follow-through, and self-trust

Navigate life’s chaos with more confidence and less pressure

Clients describe her as grounding, encouraging, and real. Sarah creates a space where, you won’t be asked to “fix” yourself—you’ll be supported in exploring what’s getting in the way, finding your own solutions, and slowly shaping a life that feels more manageable, meaningful, and like you.

This is therapy that welcomes all of you—the messy parts, the tired parts, the uncertain parts. When you work with Sarah, it’s safe to slow down, get honest, and figure things out—one step at a time.