About Allison
Allison Bratton is a licensed professional counselor in Oregon who works with people facing addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She writes plainly and meets clients where they are. Her style aims to make therapy feel direct and understandable.
Allison blends practical skills with a focus on values and relationships. Sessions often include strategies to manage stress, improve sleep, and cope with grief or anger. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career questions, ADHD, and struggles tied to family of origin.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based ideas to help people live according to their values. Attachment-focused ideas help when relationship patterns or early wounds impact current life.
With 12 years of experience Allison tailors the work to each person's goals. She aims to help clients build self-esteem, find purpose, and recover from past hurt. Therapy is framed as a collaborative process with clear, practical steps.
Allison offers sessions in English and provides phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging formats. Her practice notes that costs vary by location and subscription terms allow cancellation at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Allison commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based work in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports work on trust, boundaries, and emotional connection.She also blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas when helpful. ACT teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values, which can be useful for addiction recovery, coping with life changes, and managing mood swings. Allison approaches decisions about methods collaboratively and will discuss which combination of approaches best fits a person’s goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work visually and do deeper skills practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English