About Alison
Alison Baker is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, as well as depression and life changes. Her work often addresses relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and struggles like grief or addiction.
Alison uses straightforward methods to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try small changes that can make a difference.
Background and approach
She also supports people working through attachment and communication problems that affect close relationships. In sessions she talks through coping strategies for panic, mood swings, and impulse struggles. She offers practical tools for managing work stress, parenting pressures, and challenges tied to chronic illness or disability.
Conversations also cover self-esteem, money worries, career decisions, and finding purpose. Her approach blends techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and attachment-based work. Alison emphasizes clear goals and simple experiments clients can use between sessions.
She aims to help people build resilience and reconnect with what matters to them. Alison works with people who want both short-term coaching and longer therapeutic support. She meets with clients in a variety of online formats and helps them choose the way of meeting that fits their life and goals.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, rumination, and finding direction after big life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and introduces small experiments to shift patterns. It can help with panic attacks, mood symptoms, and managing unhelpful thinking in daily life.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. This work supports people who struggle with trust, abandonment worries, or repeating relationship cycles.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaboration helps shape a plan that can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversational work, phone can fit times when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows brief check-ins or coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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