About Allison
Allison Nitschke is a licensed professional counselor who helps people who are struggling with anxiety and related concerns. She brings 21 years of experience and listens closely to each person's story before suggesting practical next steps. Her style balances short-term problem solving with support for people who need longer-term care.
Allison trained at Cincinnati Christian University and holds LPC and LCMHC credentials. She has worked with people facing depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem and body image.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with early childhood mental health and serious mental health disorders, so she is familiar with a wide range of challenges. In sessions she focuses on the relationship and on what will help most right now. She uses client-centered techniques to follow the person's lead.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and on emotionally focused methods to address attachment and closeness issues. She often brings mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing into conversations to increase awareness and build momentum for change. Allison says she enjoys working with people who want short-term, solution-focused work as well as those who need deeper, longer care.
Her approach aims to restore a sense of balance and ease for people carrying heavy loads. People who choose Allison will find a therapist who values listening, practical tools, and a steady relationship. She frames therapy as a place to heal, rebuild, and find clearer ways forward in daily life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's lead. Online this means sessions center on what matters most to the client, whether that's exploring feelings, problem solving, or planning next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and can be delivered through exercises, worksheets, and in-session practice during video or phone sessions.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before, and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative stance means plans can change as progress is made or circumstances shift.
Online formats offer flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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