About Alison
Alison Marrelli is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, and major life changes. She works with clients who are dealing with compassion fatigue, ADHD challenges, relationship or intimacy concerns, and career or parenting stress. Alison speaks English and practices in Utah as an LCSW.
Alison believes people know their own stories and brings a practical, respectful style to sessions. She focuses on building on each person's strengths.
How Alison works
Sessions often involve practical strategies, reflective listening, and goal-focused conversation. With 12 years of clinical experience, Alison has supported people through depression, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping difficulties, and chronic health or caregiving stress. She also addresses identity and intimacy topics, body image, and challenges related to adoption, attachment, and blended families.
Her approach adapts to the concern at hand. For some people that means coaching around small steps and routines. For others it means working through painful past events at a steadier pace.
She aims for clear, manageable plans rather than lengthy theory discussions. Alison offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule. She uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To start, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session based on availability.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Alison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and coping. One common approach helps people build routines and small habits to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or daily functioning; this is useful for stress, ADHD-related struggles, and low motivation. Another approach centers on processing grief and trauma through paced conversation and supportive reflection, helping people make sense of loss and reduce its daily impact.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Alison works with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods when needed so therapy fits their needs and preferences. She explains options plainly and checks in about what is working as progress develops.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people talk face-to-face while phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messages are useful for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when plans change.
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