About Alyson
Alyson Filippa is a California licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience. She is a mother of three, a divorcee, and a cancer survivor. Alyson focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with grief, relationship strain, intimacy questions, and parenting challenges.
She believes people already carry the resources they need and works to help them access those strengths. Sessions tend to be practical and down-to-earth.
Background and approach
Alyson helps clients talk through what feels stuck and build steps they can try between meetings. Her work includes a wide range of life challenges such as aging and geriatric concerns, attachment and family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and chronic illness or pain.
She also supports people navigating divorce, separation, substance concerns, codependency, and the emotional aftermath of cancer and hospice care. Alyson is comfortable addressing intimacy-related matters, including kink and alternative sexual cultures, and she guides conversations about communication, forgiveness, guilt, and shame. She also assists those facing end-of-life decisions or caregiving stress as part of broader counseling needs.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in several formats. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on therapist availability. Alyson frames therapy as collaborative work focused on clarity, coping skills, and steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Alyson uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach she uses helps people learn concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as breathing strategies, grounding, and simple behavior adjustments to reduce overwhelm. These tools are useful for day-to-day anxiety and intense moments.She also supports grief and relationship work by guiding conversations that help people name difficult feelings, make sense of losses, and practice clearer communication. That work often includes small behavioral experiments to test new ways of relating and managing difficult conversations.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Alyson collaborates with each person to figure out which techniques fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time and encourages feedback so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers practical benefits forongoing work. Video calls let people connect face to face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a quiet check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, progress notes, or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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