About Allison
Allison Bratton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oregon who helps people facing addiction, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions aim to make daily life easier and to reduce the overwhelm that comes with hard problems.
Allison combines several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept hard feelings while moving toward what matters.
How Allison works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Emotion regulation skills drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy are taught when stress or strong emotions get in the way. Her work covers relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, and substance or alcohol use.
She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, self-esteem, career stress, and codependency. The aim is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Allison has 12 years of clinical experience and centers each session on the client’s goals.
She offers a calm presence and clear tools, and she adjusts methods to fit practical life needs. People leave sessions with small, doable steps to practice between meetings. Therapy with Allison is available in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Allison lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Allison works with
The areas below are the ones Allison selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take action toward personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where avoidance fuels distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause trouble and replacing them with more helpful habits; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and unhelpful coping. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for people who struggle with intense emotions and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Allison works collaboratively with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. She will explain options, try techniques in-session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to use therapy without long commutes and to practice skills in real time.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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