Hi! I’m Allyson and I’m looking forward to hopefully meeting with you. Have you been struggling or just wanting some extra support and a place you can turn to in order to let it all out? Have you found yourself stressed out or feeling overwhelmed easily? Are you struggling to understand your emotions or what is happening in your relationships? I hope I can help you with those issues and so much more! I work with you to understand how you are feeling and thinking about situations and help you practice a focus on your long-term goals to get through life’s ups and downs. I’ve worked with all ages and use a holistic approach to therapy to address the needs of your mind, body, and spirit. I take an integrative approach and work to meet you where you are and personalize treatment to meet your strengths and needs. I bring in evidence-based interventions and techniques as well as creative and artistic elements. I’ve received training in several modalities including DBT, CBT, EMDR and ABFT. I’ve found that using both sides of your brain can strengthen the positive changes and success rates for reaching your goals. Taking steps to heal yourself and that time for yourself can be scary. It can be challenging to work with someone new and/or to give it a try again. You’re making the right choice, and you deserve this opportunity. You deserve a safe space, you deserve to heal, you deserve to reach your fullest potential in life. Let’s work together to help you reach the best version of yourself!
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
You can expect to have the time and space to express yourself openly and experience a sense of understanding. You can expect to have skills and tools to practice outside of the session. My focus on the sessions is to help you make better sense of the challenges you are experiencing and develop the confidence to practice new approaches to alleviate your symptoms and reach your goals!
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
My approach to therapy is integrative and utilizes several different approaches. I prefer to learn what has and hasn’t worked in the past to co-create a plan and provide information about possible interventions to meet you where you are at. I recognize that not every tool or resource provided will be useful and want to offer tools and skills that will be a good match for you and your lifestyle. I bring in several Evidenced Based Practices to guide and support treatment and my approach to therapy while also bringing in elements of creativity and art to the therapy room.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I have worked with children and adolescents throughout my career and recognize that family is an integral part of their treatment. I work to help children and teens regulate and understand their emotions better while supporting parents to explore strategies to improve their relationship and strengthen the sense of attachment. Therapy is meant to be a temporary support, the natural support system must be built up to maintain progress once therapy ends. I work with the goal of helping you be successful in maintaining the progress made even after therapy ends. Changes should be sustainable and match the needs for your life. My experience has included working with guarded and resistant clients. I have been able to work through the challenges and create motivation for teens who don’t recognize the purpose and benefits of therapy. I have helped and supported families in understanding the resistance and defiance of teens in a different light. The goal is to seek a better understanding and co-create a new and better way of engaging with one another.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
My expertise has been working with children, adolescents, and families. I have training to work with children as young as a few months old and find that integration of family is essential at all ages of development. I have gained extensive experience and training in addressing trauma with all ages. The ways that traumatic and adverse life events can be repressed often creates challenges and obstacles to overcome down the line. My experience in intensive mental health settings has led me to understand and be able to support disordered eating, mood disorders, personality disorders, suicidal ideations and self harming behaviors. I recognize that there is a large stigma