About Allyson
Allyson Klein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience in mental health care. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. Her work is grounded in a warm, nonjudgmental style that aims to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Allyson uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to notice unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
How Allyson works
She emphasizes mindfulness and motivates clients to try small, manageable changes. Sessions are collaborative and focused on clear goals that matter to each person. Her background includes long experience in varied care settings and work with many different life concerns, including eating and body image struggles, addictions, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, and ADHD.
She also addresses issues such as attachment wounds, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and coming to terms with loss or big life shifts. Allyson pays attention to how identity and life context affect coping and choices. She supports people navigating intimacy, commitment questions, blended family dynamics, and nontraditional sexual practices.
Her approach balances practical skill-building and acceptance work to reduce suffering now while building resilience for the future. People who choose Allyson can expect steady guidance, straightforward talk, and tools they can practice between sessions. She aims to help clients make gradual, lasting change at a pace that fits their lives.
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What Allyson works with
The areas below are the ones Allyson selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approach and online options for meaningful change
Allyson combines Client-Centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience so they feel heard and can define their goals. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors shape mood and teaches concrete strategies to shift those patterns.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy elements, especially skills in mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. DBT tools help when intense emotions or relationship strains get in the way of daily life. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how to meet and practice skills. Video calls let people work face to face when using demonstrations or worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, between-session coaching, and ongoing motivation. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working on concrete change.
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