About Allison
Allison Gale is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Allison aims to make sessions feel like a calm place to talk and experiment with new coping skills.
She uses mindfulness and art-based activities to help people connect with their thoughts and feelings. Those exercises are simple and meant to be used outside sessions, so progress can continue during the week.
Background and approach
Allison also offers coaching-style support for career shifts and parenting concerns when clients want concrete next steps. Allison has six years of counseling experience working with grief, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and issues around body image and eating. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care, caregiving strain, and immigration-related stress.
Her approach combines everyday tools with space to process painful memories and emotions. She believes that the person seeking help knows their story best, and the therapist's role is to walk alongside them. Sessions emphasize validation, small experiments, and goal-oriented planning.
Allison encourages people to try short exercises between appointments to build confidence and track change. Outside of work Allison enjoys reading, hiking, and making art. She brings that same curiosity and creativity to sessions, offering a steady, down-to-earth presence for people working through difficult problems.
How Allison uses practical approaches online
Allison commonly draws on mindfulness practices and art-based activities to help people manage anxiety and stress. Mindfulness exercises teach simple breathing and attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Art-based activities give people another way to name feelings and try new perspectives without relying only on words.She also integrates coaching-style techniques to support career changes and parenting challenges. Those approaches focus on setting small goals, creating action steps, and tracking progress so people can make steady changes. Allison works collaboratively to choose which techniques feel right, and she adjusts plans based on each person's goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual exercises and direct interaction, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and varying comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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