About Alison
Alison Chrun is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on common, pressing concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, and relationship or intimacy issues. Alison aims to make therapy feel manageable and straightforward for people who are worried or unsure about starting.
Alison uses short-term and practical strategies alongside deeper, reflective work. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and solution-focused tools. Sessions move at a pace the client can handle while also encouraging tangible steps toward goals.
How Alison works
Her style is warm and accepting. Alison listens for what matters most and helps people clarify values, set realistic steps, and practice skills between sessions. She pays attention to how life stress, trauma, or grief can affect day-to-day functioning and coping.
Alison also supports concerns around parenting stress, codependency, commitment or communication problems, and issues like fertility or postpartum depression. She addresses work and career stress, compassion fatigue, and questions about sexuality and self-worth. She communicates through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People who prefer messaging should expect occasional evening back-and-forth exchanges when she is active. Alison’s goal is to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to handle life’s changes.
Alison lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Alison works with
The areas below are the ones Alison selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Alison commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Alison treats approach selection as a team effort and will work with each person to choose techniques that suit their goals, preferences, and current situation. She adapts methods over time if something isn’t working well.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow a full conversation similar to in-person work, phone sessions can fit a break from work or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for a focused check-in, and messaging supports short exchanges or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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