About Alana
Alana Jones is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, parenting challenges, and grief. She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, career shifts, and life changes. Her style is warm and practical, with an emphasis on listening and building an alliance with each person.
Alana brings ten years of experience working across different systems, including foster care and social services.
Background and approach
She has provided individual and group work as well as family and dyadic sessions, crisis stabilization, case coordination, and rehabilitation services. That background informs how she plans treatment and offers realistic steps forward. Her approach centers on the client.
She helps people take the steering wheel of their lives while pointing out strengths and small wins. Alana mixes methods to meet each person where they are, drawing on attachment-based ideas, client-centered principles, cognitive strategies, emotionally-focused work, and trauma-focused tools. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical skills.
That can mean skill-building for attention and organization, strategies to manage anxiety, or steps to repair important relationships. She adjusts the plan as people make progress so the work stays relevant. Alana aims to be an ally who listens, validates, and supports people as they make choices that fit their lives.
Her emphasis is on steady, actionable change and on helping people feel more capable in daily life.
How Alana’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and trust, helping people notice how past bonds shape current reactions and teaching new ways to connect and respond. It can be useful for family concerns, parenting strain, and rebuilding close relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In practice this means learning specific skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits that affect work, attention, or daily routines.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional impact. It can be offered when trauma or post-traumatic stress is part of someone's story.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then recommend one or a mix of methods. That plan is revisited and adjusted as progress is made so the work stays useful.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for full sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text messaging fit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or notes between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and make it easier to work therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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