About Alane
Alane Roath is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 23 years of clinical experience. She centers therapy on understanding each person's story and helping them manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and collaborative, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Alane creates an affirming space for people exploring gender and sexual identity and for those coping with grief, caregiving strain, or major life changes.
How Alane works
She pays attention to issues like intimacy, self-esteem, addiction, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with mood disorders such as bipolar and obsessive-compulsive struggles. Her work draws on several evidence-based approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, and emotionally-focused techniques.
This mix helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and strengthen important relationships. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals and daily realities. Alane has additional focus areas that include abandonment and attachment concerns, family of origin dynamics, communication problems, and the impacts of cancer or caregiving.
She also addresses first responder challenges, codependency, and issues tied to guilt or isolation. These topics often connect back to core patterns and practical behavior changes. People who come to her typically want straightforward tools and compassionate listening.
Her aim is to help them move from feeling stuck to making manageable, meaningful changes. The work is paced to fit what each person needs and can handle at the moment.
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What Alane works with
The areas below are the ones Alane selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, life changes, and addiction when people want concrete ways to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches skills to challenge patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive issues, mood disorders, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotional experiences in relationships and can aid people working through attachment, intimacy, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions are collaborative - techniques are introduced, tested, and adjusted together so the approach evolves as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for full conversations and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging provide short check-ins, ongoing support, or a way to share thoughts between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access care from different locations.
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