About Allison
Allison Bratton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon who helps people facing anxiety and other life stressors. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is grounded and compassionate, aimed at people who want clear options and steady support.
Allison uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard. Sessions tend to be direct and collaborative. Allison listens for what matters most to the client and then suggests tools to try between sessions.
She helps people with sleep problems, grief, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, and mood issues such as depression and bipolar symptoms. Her background includes 12 years of clinical work in mental health settings. That experience informs a practical approach to coping with life changes and managing stress.
Allison also addresses attachment-related issues, codependency, and family of origin concerns. People working with Allison can expect goal-focused conversations and concrete strategies for everyday life. She offers coaching-style support alongside therapy when that fits the client's goals.
Sessions take place remotely in formats that fit busy schedules and different communication preferences.
Approaches Allison Uses and How They Fit Online
Allison blends cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people manage symptoms and pursue meaningful goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then trying new ways of responding, which is useful for anxiety, sleep disruption, and depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches acceptance of difficult feelings while clarifying values and taking small actions that move a person toward those values, which helps with long-term change and coping.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Allison works with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts tools so the work fits the client’s life and priorities rather than following a fixed plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer more flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps build momentum. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching-style support between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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