About Allison
Allison Van Da Griff is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Missouri. She has seven years of experience helping people address stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Allison focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns as well as challenges like grief, trauma, and eating issues.
She starts by listening to each person’s story and recognizing strengths they already have. Her style is straightforward and supportive. She encourages small, practical steps that build confidence and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Allison uses a mix of approaches to fit what someone needs. She draws on client-centered conversations to make space for personal values. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
When relationships are central, she applies principles from the Gottman Method to address communication problems and improve connection. For people coping with past harm, trauma-focused options are available to work safely through painful memories and reactions. Sessions are aimed at solving immediate problems and building tools for the future.
Allison helps with parenting stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, body image and self-love, and compassion fatigue. She supports people navigating life changes and isolation. Her way of working is collaborative.
Allison helps clients set clear goals and track progress. She emphasizes practical skills people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control.
Online approaches that focus on goals and healing
Allison uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a listening, nonjudgmental space where clients guide the direction of work. This approach helps people clarify values, build self-compassion, and decide what matters most to them. She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers clear, practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Allison will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in about what’s working and adjusts the plan over time so the process stays useful and relevant. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people see and interact in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, flexible touchpoints between sessions or when typing feels easier. These options support regular contact and practical skill practice. Allison helps clients use the format that best fits their routine, communication style, and the work they want to do together.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English