About Allison
Allison Metz is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 17 years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, angry, or facing mood challenges. Allison offers straightforward, practical support for parents managing sleep and parenting strain, and for those coping with life changes or relationship and family difficulties.
Allison uses proven, skills-based methods to help people make small changes that add up. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
How Allison works
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her work when people need focus and motivation to move forward. Her background includes clinical work in independent practice, medical family health centers, community agencies, and residential treatment settings. Allison earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Community Counseling from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Those years shaped her interest in trauma, mood disorders, and family dynamics. Allison has experience supporting people after traumatic events and with postpartum mood concerns. She also addresses complex feelings such as emptiness, guilt, and shame.
Sessions emphasize practical coping skills, clearer communication, and steps that fit everyday life. People find Allison's approach direct but caring. She focuses on building useful skills, setting achievable goals, and adjusting plans as progress is made.
Therapy aims to reduce overwhelm and help people feel more steady and able to handle what's next.
Allison lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How Allison’s approaches work online
Allison commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage difficult thoughts and intense emotions. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns that feed anxiety or depression and then testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms. DBT emphasizes skills for regulating emotion, tolerating distress, and improving communication when relationships become strained.She also draws on mindfulness practices to help slow racing thoughts and on solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable goals. Finding the right approach is part of the work together - Allison collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, pace, and day-to-day needs.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Messaging and live chat support shorter check-ins, homework review, and ongoing skill practice between scheduled meetings, making therapy easier to fit into busy lives.
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