About Alison
Alison Mann is a licensed professional counselor who brings a decade of experience working in educational settings. She earned a Master’s degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce and spent years supporting students and families around anxiety, social behavior, depression, ADHD, and learning differences. Alison uses practical therapies to help people manage day-to-day struggles and strong emotions.
Her style is direct and calm. She focuses on helping people notice how they react to stress and build skills to respond differently.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals, small steps, and real-life practice rather than long lectures or abstract theories. Alison draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening space where people guide the pace of work. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, actions, and feelings to find changeable patterns.
Typical concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, ADHD, grief, and burnout. She also helps with communication problems, life purpose questions, forgiveness, and social anxiety or phobia. Work often mixes short-term problem solving with skills to handle ongoing challenges.
Sessions are offered from Texas and conducted in English. Alison supports both practical coaching and therapeutic work, helping clients set achievable steps and track progress as they adjust to life’s demands.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Alison uses Client-Centered Therapy to offer a respectful, listening space where the client helps set the pace and priorities. This approach is useful when someone needs empathy, validation, and help naming what matters most in day-to-day life.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people see links between thoughts, actions, and feelings and then test small changes. CBT often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, ADHD-related routines, and habits that get in the way of daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Alison talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she adapts sessions so practical strategies and the conversational pace fit the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversation and role play, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter daily coaching or homework follow-up. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or family routines without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English
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