About Alanna
Alanna Kardon-Alkalay is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York. She brings 15 years of experience working in agencies, schools, and independent practice. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and other life challenges.
Her work often centers on practical steps people can use day to day. Her background includes preventive services with children and schools and counseling in adult mental health settings. In independent practice she has supported adults with ADHD, eating concerns, relationship and parenting questions, grief, trauma, and recovery from emotional and sexual abuse.
Background and approach
She draws on a range of clinical approaches to match each person’s needs. Alanna earned a master’s degree from Fordham University in Tarrytown, New York, where she trained in individual counseling and family systems. She typically uses cognitive behavioral methods and blends client-centered, narrative, and psychodynamic ideas when helpful.
Treatment plans are created together and updated as goals change. Her style is collaborative and respectful. She listens for what matters to each person and uses those strengths to shape the work.
Mindfulness and practical skills often appear alongside talking through personal stories. Sessions focus on clear goals, coping strategies, and building everyday habits that reduce distress. Alanna emphasizes honesty, dignity, and ethical practice while helping people take steps toward calmer, more manageable days.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on what matters to the person in front of her. It involves active listening, reflecting your priorities, and shaping goals together so therapy fits your life.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches simple, practical skills for managing anxious thoughts and unhelpful behaviors. It often uses short exercises, tracking patterns, and step-by-step experiments to reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning.
Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. Practices can be brief breathing exercises or attention skills that make stress feel more manageable in the moment.
Alanna treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with you about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan when something isn’t working. That collaborative checking-in helps shape a plan that fits your needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or ongoing text-based messaging. Video work lets you use visual cues and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth, chat and text are good for quick check-ins or brief coaching, and different formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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