About Alison
Alison Marrelli is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps toward feeling better feel manageable. Alison believes clients know their stories best and builds on their strengths to move forward.
She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a practical approach to sessions. Conversations center on what matters most to the client and on concrete ways to cope with daily pressures.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, and planning for small changes that add up. Alison works with people facing issues such as self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career or parenting stress. She also supports those navigating trauma, grief, eating or sleep difficulties, and chronic illness or caregiver strain.
Her practice in Utah is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a collaborative stance. She helps clients set clear goals and tests strategies together to see what fits. The focus is on steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
People who prefer straightforward, strength-focused conversations may find her approach helpful. She offers sessions designed to fit busy lives and to help clients build skills they can use outside of therapy.
Therapeutic Techniques and Online Care
Alison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is skill-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and coping strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These are short practices clients can use between sessions to handle day-to-day triggers.Another frequent emphasis is problem-solving and behavioral planning. This involves breaking larger problems into small, doable steps and testing what works in real life. It can be helpful for motivation, life transitions, ADHD challenges, and managing caregiver or work-related demands.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Alison collaborates with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something isn’t fitting well so care stays practical and client-centered.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and hold fuller conversations. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging are useful for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. Together these formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and flexible around daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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