About Alana
Alana Woods is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, parenting challenges, addiction, grief, and mood concerns. She focuses on practical steps to manage difficult feelings and on building strength to move forward.
Her voice is warm and straightforward, aiming to make therapy feel approachable even when topics are hard to talk about. Alana centers sessions on each person's needs and strengths.
How Alana works
She works collaboratively and keeps things transparent so people know what to expect. Her style blends listening with concrete skills that can be used between sessions. She aims to help people notice their resilience and set goals that fit their life.
Her background includes five years of clinical practice and a license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida. That training informs a focus on trauma, attachment, and relationship patterns. She includes tools from cognitive and behavioral approaches to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
In sessions Alana draws on emotion-focused work to strengthen connection and on skills-based strategies to reduce distress. She also incorporates relationship-focused techniques to address communication and conflict. The goal is practical change that feels meaningful to daily life.
Alana describes therapy as a team effort. She aims to create a space where people feel heard and guided toward their goals. Small steps and steady support are central to how she helps people cope and grow.
Alana lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Alana works with
The areas below are the ones Alana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and trust in relationships. It helps people understand how early attachments shape current bonds and reactions, and it can be useful for those wanting to improve closeness and security in relationships.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience at the center. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person find their own solutions, which can be especially helpful for building self-esteem and confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing stressful life changes by breaking problems into smaller, manageable steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life. From there they will recommend and try approaches that fit, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care even when schedules change.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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