About Allyson
Allyson Puzzo is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical, doable steps so people can feel more in control. Allyson writes plainly and listens closely to understand what a person needs right now.
She emphasizes building a solid therapeutic relationship where people can notice patterns and try new ways of coping. Sessions are calm and goal-oriented. Allyson uses straightforward tools to address worry, low mood, sleep struggles, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her background includes a degree in mental health counseling and study in forensic psychology. She has worked with individuals and groups for 12 years, gaining experience with trauma, relationship troubles, and behavioral concerns. That experience informs a flexible approach in sessions.
Allyson draws on several well-known methods. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people identify and change thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports building values-based actions and managing painful thoughts.
Client-centered methods keep the person's experience central to planning and pacing of work. People also bring complex family or caregiving stress, codependency, and issues like infidelity or communication breakdowns. Allyson aims to make skills useful for daily life, from better sleep routines to clearer conversations.
She supports people who want coaching-oriented tools as well as therapy-focused work.
How Allyson's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match what matters to them. This is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. It often includes short exercises to practice between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers on a warm, nonjudgmental conversation where the person sets the pace and goals, which supports self-understanding and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Allyson collaborates with each person to decide which tools to try first and adjusts based on progress and preference. That way therapy stays practical and tied to everyday goals like better sleep, clearer communication, or managing worry.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in. Live chat and text let people message between sessions or choose a format without being on camera. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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