About Alison
Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with eight years of clinical experience. She draws on her background to support people facing relationship strain, mood challenges, trauma, and substance concerns. Alison aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
She uses clear, doable steps in sessions. Alison often focuses on thought patterns and personal strengths to help people change how they respond to stress.
How Alison works
She also works with identity concerns, intimacy issues, and challenges around sleep, eating, and self-worth. Alison's path includes work supporting military populations and caregiving roles, and she brings that perspective into sessions for people coping with major life changes. Her experience includes grief, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness or pain.
She also addresses workplace and career stresses and helps with motivation and planning. Therapy is collaborative and tailored. Alison prefers to build a plan that fits each person's goals and pace.
She may use storytelling, problem-solving, and goal-focused conversations to help people make practical shifts. Clients can expect a direct, empathetic approach that balances listening with actionable steps. Sessions emphasize small changes that add up over time, whether the focus is mood, relationships, or day-to-day functioning.
Alison lists 8 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.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approach and online therapy options
Alison often uses Client-Centered Therapy to provide a respectful, nonjudgmental space where a person's perspectives guide the work. This approach helps when someone needs a listening ear and support to clarify their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another common tool she uses to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT can be useful for depression, anxiety, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with life changes.Finding the best way to work together is part of the process. Alison will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then help decide which approaches to try. That choice is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and deeper interaction, while phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text sessions are useful for short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines and to maintain regular contact between sessions.
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