Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings eight years of practice to her work with individuals.
01About Alison
Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings eight years of practice to her work with individuals. She combines practical skills and down-to-earth conversation to help people facing relationship pain, persistent low mood, addiction, or trouble sleeping. Alison aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first visit.
She draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions tend to focus on small, manageable steps that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Alison listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people try new ways of thinking and acting. Her background includes time in the Air Force and a decade working for the Department of Defense, experience that shaped her calm, steady approach to stressful situations. She holds a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and uses that training to guide care.
Alison is also a mother who has navigated intense family health challenges, which informs her perspective on long-term stress. Clients often bring concerns such as trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief, eating and body image issues, ADHD, or bipolar disorder. Alison also supports people dealing with career transitions, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue.
She works with topics around intimacy, kink, and commitment concerns in a nonjudgmental way. Alison typically blends client-centered listening with cognitive strategies and narrative work. She encourages practical experiments between sessions so people can test changes in real life.
Her aim is to help people gain clearer choices and steadier footing as they move forward.
02Credentials
- LPC (Georgia)
- License LPC012154 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1831634591 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Alison lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Alison names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Alison names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Alison often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and creating space for people to describe what matters most to them; it helps when someone needs acceptance and a calm listener. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and offers simple experiments to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and addictive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Alison will discuss your goals, try methods that fit your preferences, and adjust plans as progress is made. That collaborative process helps make sure techniques feel relevant and usable in everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera feels hard. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or handling small steps between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between visits.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Alison help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including relationship problems, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, self-esteem, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD, and bipolar disorder.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Alison blends client-centered listening with cognitive tools and narrative techniques to help people try new ways of thinking and acting.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Alison has eight years of counseling experience and a background that includes military service and ten years as a Department of Defense employee, which informs her steady approach to stress.
Where is Alison licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Alison accepts international clients as well.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Alison?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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