About Alison
Alison Garcia is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and depression. She practices from Florida and brings 15 years of experience to her work. Alison aims to make the first steps of reaching out feel manageable and respectful of people’s courage.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful memories and current struggles. Conversations are paced to match what each person can handle.
Background and approach
Alison listens first, then helps set small, practical steps toward feeling more steady. Her approach blends practical thinking with acceptance and mindfulness. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people live by their values even when anxiety or grief is present. Alison often brings client-centered and motivational techniques into sessions. That means she follows each person’s lead and supports motivation for change.
Therapy is collaborative - goals are chosen together and reviewed as progress happens. People working with Alison may focus on improving coping skills, managing strong emotions, rebuilding after loss or trauma, or repairing communication patterns. She explains tools in plain language and practices them together in session so people can try them between meetings.
Approach and access in online sessions
Alison uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as core parts of her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact, teaching practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try strategies and adjust the mix of ACT, CBT, or client-centered methods until the work fits the person’s life.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support shorter updates, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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