About Allison
Allison Burrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who combines practical therapies with careful listening. She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, LGBTQ issues, anger, anxiety, sleep problems, career stress, and life changes. Allison also supports people coping with ADHD, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Allison uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, existential ideas, Jungian perspectives, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to shape sessions. She aims to make conversations straightforward and useful.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on clear steps, new perspectives, and skills that fit daily life. Her style is direct and nonjudgmental. Allison creates space for people to talk about hard topics like abandonment, attachment, codependency, communication breakdowns, and control struggles.
She also addresses more specific concerns including gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, immigration stress, and aspects of kink and alternative sex culture. With three years of professional experience, Allison has worked with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism.
She is completing a Certified Sex Therapist credential through the Sexual Health Alliance and brings that developing expertise into conversations about intimacy and sexual health. Sessions are offered in English and German and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Allison helps clients identify concrete goals and practical next steps, and she works collaboratively to find strategies that fit each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Allison uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small, testable steps that can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or help with anger.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to help people build awareness of their present-moment experience. Mindfulness practices can lower stress, improve focus, and make emotions easier to manage in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Allison discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed so therapy fits the problem and the person. This means trying strategies together and choosing what feels most useful over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when a deeper interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins or continued support between longer sessions. Those options make it easier to work therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, German