About Alison
Alison Garcia is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and depression. She creates a calm space where people can name what’s hard and talk through feelings without judgment. Alison recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and she offers steady support through that first step.
Alison uses approaches that focus on practical change and personal values. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and still choose actions that matter.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that change daily routines. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions include listening, gentle questioning, and simple tools you can try between meetings.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help reduce reactivity and bring attention back to the present. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s pace and Motivational Interviewing to support readiness for change. Those methods are woven together to fit what a person needs that week.
Alison is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and also holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Virginia. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Alison uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and still act in ways that match their values. That approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping after loss or trauma. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and what feels doable in the moment. She adjusts pacing and tools as progress unfolds so therapy stays relevant to current needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you use visual cues and more traditional face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when writing out thoughts feels easier than speaking. These formats give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English