Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Ethics Educator

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, is a licensed professional counselor, relationship specialist, private-practice owner, educator, consultant, contributing author, and professional speaker. Her work brings together Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, person-centered counseling, relationship treatment, professional ethics, crisis intervention, leadership development, and organizational culture. She currently provides virtual counseling through Change Counseling and is professionally listed with counseling licenses in Georgia and Hawaii.

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, works with adults, older adults, couples, and families navigating depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, divorce, grief, family conflict, trauma, caregiving pressures, relationship concerns, and significant life transitions. Her clinical approach helps clients clarify what they want to change, recognize abilities and resources that may have become difficult to see, and develop practical steps toward a more manageable future.

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, also brings counseling principles into leadership and workplace development. Through her culture-development practice, she provides keynotes, virtual workshops, and consultation focused on communication, team connection, shared purpose, belonging, leadership behavior, and sustainable performance. Her organizational work reflects the understanding that unresolved conflict, unclear expectations, burnout, and limited psychological safety can affect both employee well-being and organizational outcomes.

Professional Background

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, earned a Master of Arts in professional counseling from Argosy University and completed additional graduate education in marriage and family therapy. Current professional biographies also identify undergraduate study in business administration and management at Mercer University. This combination of counseling and business education supports her work with individual clients, intimate relationships, clinicians, leaders, and professional organizations.

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, owns Change Counseling, an Atlanta-area practice currently providing online services. Her verified professional directory profile lists Georgia LPC license number LPC006582 and Hawaii mental health counselor license number MHC-819. The directory also identifies depression, self-esteem, and divorce as primary specialties, with additional work involving anxiety, grief, trauma, family relationships, codependency, parenting, stress, and women’s concerns.

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, has a professional background in public-health crisis management and training involving family violence intervention, substance-use concerns, and suicide prevention. Presenter biographies also document experience teaching human-services coursework, consulting with organizations, and delivering professional training on leadership, boundaries, relationships, and clinical ethics. Because her current university appointment could not be independently confirmed through an institutional directory, the page should describe her teaching experience historically rather than naming a current faculty position.

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, is a contributing author to The Power of Change: Reinventing Yourself at Any Age and Bruised But Not Broken. Both collaborative titles address resilience, personal development, difficult life experiences, relationships, and the process of moving forward after setbacks. Book records identify Beasley among the contributing authors rather than as the sole author of either volume.

Areas of Expertise

Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, teaches clinicians and clients to balance practical movement toward change with careful attention to safety, culture, emotional context, and professional responsibility. Her work is particularly relevant to practitioners interested in strengths-based counseling, relationship care, clinical boundaries, crisis services, technology ethics, and the relationship between individual wellness and organizational culture.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Beasley uses solution-focused principles to help clients identify preferred outcomes, exceptions to persistent problems, useful coping responses, existing resources, and achievable next steps. The approach does not require clinicians to ignore trauma, risk, or structural barriers. Instead, it adds deliberate attention to what the client wants to become different and what may already be helping. The Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association describes SFBT as a structured but flexible approach supported through clinical practice, professional learning, and ongoing research. Clinical Events’ Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training provides related clinician education.

Strengths-Based Counseling and Personal Change. Beasley’s approach recognizes that depression, divorce, anxiety, relationship conflict, or a major setback may dominate a person’s current experience without defining their complete identity. Strengths-oriented work can help clients reconnect with persistence, values, supportive relationships, previous successes, creativity, and survival strategies while still acknowledging pain. It should not be confused with forced positivity or pressure to move forward before a client feels understood.

Couples, Families, and Relationship Counseling. Her relationship work addresses communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, infidelity, recurring arguments, family-of-origin patterns, parenting differences, financial strain, unequal responsibilities, and difficulty rebuilding trust. Her professional profiles list family systems, emotionally focused, relational, conflict-resolution, Gottman-informed, and solution-focused approaches. Relationship treatment should include appropriate screening for coercive control and interpersonal violence because conjoint therapy may be unsafe when one person cannot participate freely.

Professional Boundaries and Ethical Practice. Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, LMHC, provides professional education on fees, cancellations, self-disclosure, dual relationships, communication policies, technology, confidentiality, financial boundaries, social media, and practitioner impairment. Clear boundaries create consistency around the therapeutic role and can protect both client welfare and the clinician’s ability to provide sustainable care. Clinical Events’ Professional Boundaries Every Therapist Should Know and its guide to boundaries, confidentiality, and competence provide complementary ethical frameworks.

Digital Ethics and Telehealth. Her ethics education addresses telehealth, electronic communication, digital records, artificial intelligence, confidentiality, privacy, social media, and the need to evaluate technology before integrating it into practice. Clinicians remain responsible for verifying AI-generated material, protecting client information, understanding vendor practices, and ensuring that convenience does not replace clinical judgment. Federal telehealth guidance emphasizes risk analysis, secure communication, clear policies, and patient education. Clinical Events’ Telehealth Ethics guide offers further practical guidance.

Crisis Management, Family Violence, and Suicide Prevention. Beasley’s background includes crisis-focused services and training related to suicide prevention, substance use, and family violence. Crisis work may require direct risk assessment, safety planning, consultation, emergency resources, or referral to a more appropriate level of care. Solution-focused questions may help identify coping resources and reasons for living, but they cannot replace a thorough safety assessment when immediate danger is possible.

Women’s Mental Health and Self-Worth. Her work frequently addresses depression, self-esteem, caregiving strain, divorce, people-pleasing, overfunctioning, perfectionism, and the pressure to appear capable while personal needs remain unattended. Beasley helps clients consider how self-worth may become tied to productivity, usefulness, relationship status, or other people’s approval. Her public commentary has also explored joy, fulfillment, mindfulness, community, and the importance of developing an identity beyond work or constant responsibility.

Leadership and Organizational Culture. Her organizational education focuses on communication, conflict, employee connection, shared purpose, leadership behavior, belonging, and burnout. She helps teams consider whether stated values are reflected in everyday systems, feedback practices, decision-making, and workload expectations. Healthy organizational culture requires more than motivational language; it depends on leaders who clarify expectations, respond to conflict, listen to employees, and create realistic opportunities for participation.

Authored Publications

• The Power of Change: Reinventing Yourself at Any Age
• Bruised But Not Broken