About Allison
Allison Crotwell is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses a straightforward, client-centered style and focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life. Her approach emphasizes strengths and clear goals so clients can see steady progress.
Allison has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings, supporting people through depression, grief, relationship strains, parenting challenges, career shifts, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also has experience with attention deficit challenges and symptoms often seen with ADD and ADHD. She helps people untangle behaviors that get in the way of daily life. Her sessions draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and mindfulness work.
That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, and take action that matches their values. Conversations are practical and skills-based, not just talk. Allison uses a strengths-based, solutions-focused lens to shape treatment plans with clear steps.
She partners with clients to identify strengths, set goals, and practice new skills between sessions. The aim is more coping ability and greater flexibility in day-to-day life. She practices in Alabama and conducts sessions in English.
People who want to begin are invited to take an initial matching step and schedule a time to talk about goals and next steps.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It emphasizes accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to behavior changes that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills in mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to reduce intense reactions and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match approaches to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers a range of formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - so people can pick what works for their schedule and energy level. Video sessions let the therapist and client use visual cues and guided exercises. Phone sessions or chat can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit in on a break. Text-based messaging supports short check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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