About Alane
Alane Roath is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She brings 23 years of experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, and trauma. Her tone is calm and direct, aiming to make therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried and overwhelmed.
She frames sessions around the person's goals and daily life. Alane helps people sort through panic, social anxiety, mood changes, and the fallout of difficult events.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, and struggles around identity and sexuality. Her work blends straight talk with approachable tools. She uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding.
She also leans on Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused approaches to strengthen emotional awareness and connection in relationships. Many clients come with complicated histories such as attachment wounds, abandonment, or family-of-origin pain, and Alane lays out steps to make day-to-day life more tolerable while addressing deeper patterns. She also offers help for caregivers, first responders, and people facing medical challenges like cancer.
Sessions focus on small, achievable shifts so coping improves between visits. People who want guidance on communication, boundary-setting, or finding purpose will find a clear, steady partner in Alane. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
Approach-focused online therapy with flexible formats
Alane commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult feelings while choosing actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and OCD.The choice of approach is meant to fit each person. The therapist works together with clients to decide which methods align with their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can include mixing ACT, CBT, and client-centered conversation to build a personalized plan that feels doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy work with real life. Video lets people work face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging provide flexible ways to keep momentum between talks. These options aim to make it simpler to attend sessions and practice skills in everyday settings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English