About Allison
Allison Kemble is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, steady support for people facing stress, grief, and major life changes. She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods to help people handle anxiety, caregiving strain, career shifts, and health-related challenges. Allison earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri Columbia and holds an LCSW in Missouri.
She began her career as a career counselor helping clients with barriers to employment and later moved into medical social work.
Background and approach
That work included crisis intervention, grief counseling, and helping people cope with complex or chronic medical conditions. In clinical practice she draws on solution-focused and client-centered approaches. She also uses motivational interviewing and mindfulness-based ideas to help people set goals and take small, doable steps.
Sessions emphasize practical tools and short-term strategies that fit into busy lives. Allison has experience supporting patients through transitions to hospice and end-of-life planning, and she has provided acute support to people dealing with suicidal thoughts in medical settings. She also helps with addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, and parenting stress, among other concerns.
People who work with Allison can expect to be heard and to get clear next steps they can try between sessions. She adapts her pace and communication style to each person and offers several ways to meet so therapy can fit into routines. Her practice is based in Missouri and sessions are offered in English.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. This can help when anxiety, grief, or chronic illness make it hard to move forward. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening, empathy, and letting the person lead the pace of work while the therapist reflects and supports. That approach helps people who need steady emotional support and validation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Allison will listen to your goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. She treats the choice as collaborative and will adjust methods as you learn what helps most for your situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and real-time cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter call is needed, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or flexible communication during busy weeks. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing caregiving, work, or treatment appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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