About Allison
Allison Van Da Griff is a Licensed Professional Counselor with seven years of clinical experience in Missouri. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship or intimacy concerns, and life changes. Allison aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can talk through what is hard and find practical next steps.
Her approach begins by listening closely to each person's story and strengths.
Background and approach
She works from a client-centered perspective, which means she follows the person's goals and pace rather than imposing a plan. Allison also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and on solution-focused techniques to build small, achievable changes. She has worked with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
Allison pays attention to issues often tied to identity and body image, including LGBT and women's issues. Her sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings, such as communication strategies and self-compassion practices. Allison describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She supports people as they set goals, try new behaviors, and notice what helps. Many clients find the combination of empathetic listening and concrete tools useful for making steady progress. Practical matters are part of her work too.
Sessions include discussion of what to try next and how to handle setbacks. Allison encourages clients to move at a manageable pace and to celebrate small gains along the way.
How Allison’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy places the person’s goals and pace at the center of sessions, with the therapist following what matters most to the client and offering support and reflection. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the plan to match their needs.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress by teaching concrete skills that can reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on addressing the effects of past trauma through paced, supportive work and coping skills. It aims to reduce distressing symptoms and strengthen the person’s ability to handle triggers and reminders.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Allison works collaboratively to choose and adapt techniques based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in about what helps and what feels off so the plan can change over time.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversations, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth or better for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text messaging allow for brief exchanges and ongoing support between meetings. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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