About Alison
Alison Kimball is a licensed social worker in Florida who brings 20 years of hands-on experience to sessions. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those coping with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, or major life changes. Alison works to make talking about hard things easier and less scary.
She focuses on practical steps you can try between meetings. Alison creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named and examined.
Background and approach
She listens closely to what a person wants to change and helps set small, realistic goals. Sessions often include straightforward strategies for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and building routine coping skills. Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people through addiction, trauma and abuse, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and caregiver stress.
Alison blends approaches to match what each person needs, drawing on methods that promote clearer thinking and present-moment awareness. People who choose Alison can expect a collaborative process. She encourages clients to try techniques, reflect on what helps, and adjust the plan as life shifts.
The aim is steady progress toward greater calm, clearer relationships, and stronger day-to-day coping.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for anxiety, relationship strain, and parenting concerns by making room to explore what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life.Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. Alison will collaborate with each person to identify goals and trial methods that fit their needs and preferences. That might mean starting with a problem-solving plan, adding mindfulness exercises, or shifting course based on what proves most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice new communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can fit during a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching on homework, or keeping momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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