About Alanna
Alanna Higgins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career concerns, and depression. She works with individuals who are ready to make changes and wants to meet each person where they are. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at practical steps rather than long lectures.
Alanna treats anxiety and stress by breaking problems into smaller, manageable pieces. She uses clear tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative - she listens, offers options, and together they pick what to try next. Her background includes clinical work across community and clinical settings over a decade. That experience shapes an approach grounded in real-world problems like caregiver strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, gender dysphoria, veteran issues, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. Alanna draws on several methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She explains techniques in plain language and practices skills in session so people can use them between meetings.
Clients who benefit most are those who want practical tools and active collaboration. She respects each person's story and emphasizes strengths while working toward specific goals. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make the process clear and doable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alanna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and actions. CBT focuses on practical skills like spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense feelings and improving communication, which can help with burnout, relationship stress, and overwhelming anxiety.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. She works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions include teaching, practice, and check-ins to see what works best and adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still using evidence-based techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
- Languages
- English
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