About Alaina
Alaina Bigger is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship and family concerns. She brings 14 years of practice serving people in California and Ohio and focuses on practical ways to cope with life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, with attention to what each person needs in their day-to-day life.
In sessions she uses familiar, evidence-based techniques to look at thoughts and patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She also draws on longer-term understanding of life stories and family systems to see how current difficulties fit into a bigger picture. That mix lets her tailor support for issues like parenting strain, communication struggles, and mood concerns. Clients can expect a collaborative approach where the therapist highlights strengths and builds small, achievable changes.
Conversations tend to be clear and goal-oriented, while also making room to address painful feelings such as grief, shame, or isolation. Practical tools are balanced with a chance to make sense of past experiences. Alaina works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, ADHD, anger, career pressures, and social anxiety.
She also supports people navigating blended families, adoption and foster care issues, divorce or separation, and multicultural or seasonal mood challenges. Her credentials include LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker) and LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker). She speaks English and provides sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Alaina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills you can practice between sessions, which can help with anxiety, depression, and social fears.She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at longstanding patterns that repeat in relationships and personal choices. That work helps when someone wants to understand how past experiences shape present feelings and reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust techniques over time so work on symptoms and personal meaning fit the person's life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, on-the-go reflections, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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