About Allison
Allison Van Da Griff is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and low mood while supporting those who are navigating relationship and intimacy concerns. Allison emphasizes strengths and practical progress in short, clear conversations.
She works from a belief that each person knows their own story best. Sessions aim to build on what already works while gently testing new ways of coping.
How Allison works
Allison helps people tackle body image worries, eating concerns, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation with straightforward strategies and empathy. Allison uses a mix of approaches depending on the issue. She draws on client-centered methods to keep the person's goals central, and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also applies trauma-focused strategies for those recovering from abuse and loss, and the Gottman Method when relationship patterns need clearer communication and repair. Conversations are practical and paced to each person's comfort. Allison supports parents dealing with pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting strain, as well as those facing grief, compassion fatigue, or major life changes.
She also addresses LGBT and women's issues with respect for individual experience. The goal in sessions is steady, manageable change. Allison helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and notice progress between appointments.
Her style is calm, direct, and encouraging, with an emphasis on real-life tools that fit daily routines.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How Allison’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experiences, using listening and reflection to help someone clarify what they want to change and how to get there. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress-related symptoms.Finding the best approach is a shared effort. Allison will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and she may combine approaches as progress demands. This collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit sessions around work, family, and daily routines while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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