About Allison
Allison Palazzo is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She practices in New York and focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her approach aims to be calm, direct, and solution-oriented.
She helps people work through relationship and intimacy problems and supports those coping with grief, life changes, and career stress. Addiction recovery and concerns about self-esteem and body image are also common topics in her sessions.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how these issues affect daily routines and relationships. Allison prefers straightforward conversations that identify barriers and outline next steps. Sessions often include setting short-term goals and practicing new ways to handle stress between meetings.
She emphasizes coping skills that people can try right away. Her background as a New York LCSW includes many years of direct clinical work across a range of concerns. That experience helps her recognize patterns and offer concrete strategies rather than only discussing feelings.
She brings steady support while guiding clients toward change. People who reach out should expect a practical partnership. Allison works with adults who want tools for anxiety, addiction recovery, relationship challenges, or major life transitions.
The focus is on clear next steps, steady support, and measurable progress over time.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Therapy
Allison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxious thoughts and physical stress - it teaches tools to break down worries and build step-by-step plans for coping. Another approach emphasizes behavior changes and skill practice to address addictive patterns and improve daily routines that support recovery.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Allison discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. She works with clients to test what helps most and refines the plan over time so therapy stays relevant to real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain steady progress without added travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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