- Years in practice
- 8
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Alison
Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eight years of clinical experience. She practices in Georgia and brings a calm, direct approach to help people facing relationship, mood, and parenting challenges. She speaks English and works with clients worldwide through online formats.
Alison uses straightforward conversation to help clients name what feels stuck. She listens closely and helps people set small, practical goals. Sessions focus on what can be changed now and on building skills to cope with stress, grief, and intense emotions.
Background and approach
Her background includes time in the military and a decade working for the Department of Defense. Those roles shaped her sense of discipline and attention to real-life pressures that show up in work, parenting, and relationships. She also draws on personal experience caring for a child with congenital heart disease when discussing long-term caregiving stress.
Her clinical work commonly addresses depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, and parenting concerns. She blends client-centered listening with practical tools to address patterns that repeat across relationships and daily life. Alison uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person’s needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and narrative-based work.
She also brings creative options such as writing, poetry, or music when those tools fit the client’s style. Her aim is to work collaboratively so clients leave sessions with concrete steps they can try between meetings.
What Alison works with
Everything Alison lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Alison helps people with.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Alison lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Alison blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on empathetic listening and helping the client set the pace; it helps people feel heard and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and gives concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and relationship habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss your goals and preferences in early sessions and adjust methods as needed. Together you can try different tools and decide which ones feel most useful for day-to-day changes and parenting concerns.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and chat or text can support quick updates and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule around work, childcare, or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
Questions people ask about Alison
What concerns does she address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, relationship problems, self-esteem, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm and direct, focused on listening first and then setting small, practical goals. Sessions mix conversation with skill-building and sometimes creative exercises like writing or music.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience and draws on prior military service and a decade working for the Department of Defense to inform her understanding of life stressors.
What credentials and location should I know about?
She holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor and practices from Georgia.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is open to working with international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does the cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
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