About Alison
Alison Kimball is a licensed social worker with twenty years of clinical experience in Florida. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and the daily strains of parenting and family life. Alison aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for anyone ready to change.
In sessions she creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, and on building clearer communication at home and work.
Background and approach
She draws on straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help people cope with mood shifts, anger, addiction concerns, and relationship challenges. Alison also supports people navigating major life transitions and complicated family histories. She works with issues tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, and chronic illness.
Her approach aims to reduce crisis-driven choices and increase steady problem-solving skills. For people managing attention differences, Alison offers structured strategies and pacing to make tasks feel more doable. She blends talk-based work with focused skills practice so sessions feel both validating and actionable.
Alison holds a Master of Social Work and practices as an LMSW and LCSW in Florida. Her background across clinical settings gives her experience with trauma, substance concerns, bipolar mood patterns, and compassion fatigue. She encourages people to set small goals and to notice real changes over time.
How Alison blends practical approaches in online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and validating a person’s experience so they feel understood. That approach helps when someone needs a calm place to talk about anxiety, parenting stress, relationship strain, or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches straightforward skills to change patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related task management, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Alison works with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and daily routines, adjusting techniques as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions let people connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break or low bandwidth situations, and messaging or chat is useful for quick check-ins and skill reminders. These options make it easier to get help around work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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