About Alli
Alli Santa is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Oregon who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She writes plainly and meets clients where they are. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build clearer day-to-day coping skills.
Alli focuses on helping people understand their feelings and patterns. She supports those working through low self-esteem, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. Conversations also address guilt, shame, isolation, and struggles with life purpose.
Background and approach
Her approach leans on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are practical and goal-oriented. In sessions she helps clients try new coping strategies, test small changes, and notice what improves their mood and relationships. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Alli also works with people dealing with communication problems, divorce and separation, and difficult dynamics with narcissistic relatives or acquaintances. She helps clients build clearer boundaries and communicate in ways that feel safer and more effective. With nine years of experience, she combines calm listening with straightforward tools people can use between sessions.
Her aim is to help clients develop resilience, clearer self-understanding, and more satisfying connections with others.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Alli uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people reduce anxiety and manage trauma reactions. One common approach is skills-focused work that teaches practical coping tools for stress, such as breathing techniques, grounding exercises, and short behavioral experiments to test new responses to anxious thoughts.She also uses trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult memories at a pace they can handle. This involves stabilizing strategies first, then working through painful experiences while building safety and self-regulation skills to reduce reactivity over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alli collaborates with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts plans as progress is made so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quicker check-ins, brief support between sessions, and options for people who prefer writing to speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping focus on the goals you and your therapist set together.
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- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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