About Alona
Alona Perlin helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She writes plainly and listens closely so people can say what matters. Alona creates a calm, nonjudgmental space and moves at each person's pace.
Alona is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 15 years of experience. She meets people in New York and works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, and addictions.
How Alona works
She also focuses on issues like attachment, abandonment, body image, caregiving strain, and challenges related to adoption and foster care. Sessions combine attentive listening with clear, practical steps. Alona draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and attachment-focused work to help people notice patterns and build healthier habits.
She also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior strategies when they fit a person's goals. Conversations cover what led someone to seek help, current struggles, and small changes that can make daily life easier. Alona offers feedback, coping skills, and exercises to try between visits.
She explains things plainly and checks in about what is and isn’t working. Alona provides services in English and Russian. She sees people in New York and holds licensure as an LCSW in both New Jersey and New York.
Her approach is collaborative, practical, and grounded in everyday concerns.
Alona lists 15 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Alona works with
The areas below are the ones Alona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, rumination, and stress when someone wants to build a different relationship to difficult feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect present connections. It can help with relationship strain, abandonment worries, and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will suggest techniques that fit those needs. Clients and therapist decide together whether to focus on skills practice, relationship patterns, values-based action, or a mix of methods.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video lets people work face to face; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging suit quick connections, homework check-ins, or people who prefer typing. These options help make therapy fit into daily life and changing schedules.
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