About Alison
Alison Baker is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD-related challenges. She practices in New York and works with adults who want clearer thinking and steadier emotions. Her style is practical, calm, and focused on everyday change.
Alison helps people sort out relationship strain and communication problems. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, or big life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on learning specific skills to reduce overwhelm and improve daily routines. Her work uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She blends that with acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take meaningful action.
Attachment-based approaches guide conversations about patterns learned in close relationships. Alison frames therapy as a step-by-step process. Early meetings focus on practical goals and small experiments to test what helps.
Over time she and the client track progress and adjust strategies that aren’t working. People looking for help with mood swings, impulsivity, or workplace stress find concrete tactics here. The tone is straightforward and empathic - clients are invited to learn new habits and rebuild routines that fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alison draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors that change outcomes. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, mood disorders, and everyday stressors.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps even when feelings are hard. ACT can support people working through avoidance, low motivation, or chronic worries.
Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and emotional habits formed early in life. This perspective helps when communication problems, abandonment worries, or trust issues come up in relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alison will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit those priorities. If something doesn’t work, she adjusts plans and focuses on what moves the person forward.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work better with low bandwidth, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options give flexibility for busy days, travel, or different comfort levels with technology.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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