About Alona
Alona Perlin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or grief. She offers calm, steady support and listens without judgment. Her approach aims to help people feel understood and more able to cope with hard moments.
She meets people where they are and adjusts her work to fit each person’s needs. Sessions mix listening with practical feedback and simple skills to try between meetings.
Background and approach
That can mean learning ways to notice unhelpful thoughts, practice emotion regulation, or build clearer communication in close relationships. With 15 years of experience, she draws on several methods to match what a person needs. That might include acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and action, cognitive-behavioral techniques to change thinking patterns, or attachment-focused work to address relationship wounds.
Sessions can be tailored for issues like depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, self esteem, and caregiving stress. Alona works with adults in New York and holds licensure in New Jersey and New York as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She conducts sessions in English and Russian and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She does not accept international clients. To begin, she asks about the concerns that brought someone to therapy, gathers basic background, and talks about next steps. The aim is to help people feel more grounded, understood, and equipped to handle what life brings.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and low mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behavior through concrete exercises and experiments, which can reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. This conversation happens together and can change as goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and learning new skills. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a check-in that doesn’t require video. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, progress notes, and support between longer sessions. These options help people keep continuity and flexibility while doing therapeutic work from wherever they are located in New York.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Russian
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