About Alison
Alison Silcox is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her approach emphasizes respect, kindness, and clear goals for change.
Alison keeps conversations straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens for what matters most and then tailors a plan that fits each person’s needs. Sessions often include small, doable tasks to practice between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce overwhelm and build steady attention. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and needs to find internal reasons to change.
Alison also draws on solution-focused and trauma-informed ideas to help people find immediate relief and work through past hurts at a manageable pace. She aims to balance short-term progress with longer-term coping skills.
With 13 years of experience, Alison has worked with a wide range of concerns including caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, relationship communication, and issues around control and guilt. She aims to make therapy useful and realistic for everyday life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Alison commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical techniques that can be practiced between sessions to see real-world effects.She also incorporates mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm and increase present-moment focus. Mindfulness is useful for managing stress and building steadier reactions to difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alison will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences, adjusting the plan as you learn what helps. The process is collaborative, with choices informed by what works in your daily life.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer dialogue, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a quicker check-in, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue progress even when life gets in the way.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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