About Alison
Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with eight years of clinical experience. She combines a practical, down-to-earth style with steady support. Alison speaks plain language and helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out find clearer ways forward.
She draws on client-centered work to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Narrative and motivational techniques help people reframe their stories and find motivation for change.
Background and approach
Alison has worked with a wide range of concerns, including depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, LGBT concerns, grief, addictions, and self-esteem. She also addresses practical life strains like caregiving stress, chronic illness, and career transitions. Her background includes military service and years supporting service members, which informs her understanding of stress and adjustment.
Sessions often include conversational work, goal-setting, and creative exercises such as writing or music when helpful. Alison partners with each person to create a plan based on immediate needs and longer-term goals. She emphasizes skill-building so people can manage day-to-day challenges more confidently.
For people who need flexible access, Alison works online and accepts international clients in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site. The approach is collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort level.
Approach, Goals, and Online Options
Alison frequently uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-first relationship. That approach focuses on the person’s experience and helps build trust and clarity about goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps when unhelpful thinking keeps someone stuck or causes sleep and mood problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison will discuss options and try methods that fit the client's needs and preferences. The plan is shaped together and adjusted as progress is noticed.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller interaction, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat is handy for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible for different schedules and life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English