About Alison
Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, direct approach to sessions and focuses on helping people manage intense emotions, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Alison draws on her background and practical experience to guide each person's next steps.
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Sessions combine talking, real-world skill practice, and attention to how the body responds to stress.
Background and approach
That makes it easier to handle panic, overwhelm, or sleepless nights. Alison has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports people navigating sexuality and intimacy issues, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her experience includes helping people with chronic illness and caregiver strain. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She uses Client-Centered methods to build trust, Cognitive Behavioral approaches to change unhelpful thinking, and somatic ideas to notice how feelings show up in the body.
Treatment plans are practical and tailored to each person’s life. Alison offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to make therapy more reachable. She works with English-speaking clients in Georgia and accepts international clients as well.
To begin, individuals complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Alison uses Client-Centered therapy to create a steady, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people set goals that feel right for them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and often includes homework or small experiments to try between sessions. Somatic ideas are woven into sessions when helpful, directing attention to body sensations and breathing to reduce overwhelm and improve self-awareness.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Alison will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and comfort level. Clients and the therapist review progress and adjust the plan together as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options allow people to access therapy from home, fit sessions around work or caregiving, and keep a consistent schedule. Licensed professionals can use these formats to combine conversation, skill practice, and somatic noticing in ways that fit each person's life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English