About Alison
Alison Mace is a Licensed Master Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She works with adults to make sense of how thoughts, feelings, and behavior connect. Alison aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard and understood.
She approaches therapy as a collaboration. Sessions focus on real goals and small steps that fit a person’s life. Alison uses clear conversation, practical tools, and occasional humor to make progress feel doable.
Background and approach
Her background includes five years of clinical experience in varied mental health settings across Michigan. That experience informs how she tailors strategies for issues like depression, trauma, and mood concerns. She also supports people facing anxiety, panic, and obsessive thoughts.
Alison draws on several treatment styles to match each person's needs. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to address thinking patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions. She also uses existential and psychodynamic perspectives to look at meaning, values, and deeper patterns.
Sessions can focus on relationship problems, communication struggles, body image, or identity and sexuality questions. She also offers guidance for coping with compassion fatigue, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose. Her goal is practical change through steady, understandable steps.
How Alison uses practical therapy online
Alison uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT offers concrete strategies for anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive thinking. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT tools are useful when feelings become overwhelming and when coping skills are needed in the moment.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Alison treats the process as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. She adjusts over time based on what helps most, combining techniques when that makes sense.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging let people share updates between sessions or use brief check-ins during a busy week. These options provide flexibility so therapy fits into daily life rather than the other way around.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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