About Alanna
Alanna Higgins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of practice experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career questions, depression, and compassion fatigue. She meets clients with practical support and steady attention as they begin the work of change.
Her approach treats the person and the situation together. She uses methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build new skills to manage intense feelings, and process past events that still cause distress.
How Alanna works
Alanna emphasizes simple, actionable steps that fit into everyday life. Clients can expect brief skills practice, direct feedback, and a focus on what is most important now. Conversations aim to turn stuck patterns into small experiments that lead to clearer choices.
She also works with concerns related to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, commitment and control issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness. Alanna has helped people facing infidelity, relationship jealousy, hoarding, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and life-purpose questions. She also supports those coping with gender dysphoria, forgiveness work, and veteran or armed forces related concerns.
Her background includes interest in trauma-focused care and motivation-based approaches. Sessions are offered in English and are held with a focus on what the individual wants to accomplish. Alanna encourages a collaborative plan so each person leaves with clear next steps and tools to use between meetings.
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What Alanna works with
The areas below are the ones Alanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and career-related stress by teaching concrete skills to test and adjust thoughts and actions.DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day functioning. It offers techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication when feelings feel overwhelming.
Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether CBT, DBT, EMDR, mindfulness, or motivational strategies best match the work the client wants to do.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in multiple formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be a shorter or lower-bandwidth option, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain momentum between sessions.
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