About Alaina
Alaina Bigger is a licensed clinical social worker practicing with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences as an LCSW and the Ohio board as an LISW. She brings 14 years of clinical experience focused on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD.
Her style is straightforward and respectful, and she aims to help people feel heard and more in control of daily challenges. She uses practical conversations to get to the heart of a problem.
Background and approach
Sessions often include identifying patterns, trying small behavior shifts, and testing new ways to handle difficult moments. Alaina combines ideas from cognitive approaches, psychodynamic thinking, and systemic perspectives to build a plan that fits the person in front of her.
Alaina works with people navigating family conflict, relationship strain, parenting stresses, adoption and foster care questions, and life transitions like divorce or career changes. She also addresses mood concerns, social anxiety, impulsivity, and feelings of isolation. Her approach aims to make big problems feel more manageable, one step at a time.
She places value on clients' strengths and on practical steps that can be used between sessions. Alaina encourages clear communication and skill-building for decision-making, emotional regulation, and coping with seasonal mood shifts or ongoing stress. Her background spans community and clinical settings and she applies that experience to tailor care to each person.
Alaina works in English and practices in California, offering multiple remote session formats to fit different needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Alaina uses cognitive approaches that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. These techniques break big problems into doable steps and teach tools people can use between sessions.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns and relationships that influence current feelings and choices. This helps uncover repeated themes and build greater self-understanding over time.
Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before, then adjust methods to fit the person’s needs and preferences. Clients help shape the plan and try strategies that feel practical for them.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, quick coping tools, and flexibility during busy days. These options make it easier to work on stress, relationships, ADHD-related struggles, and life transitions without long commutes or rigid scheduling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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