About Alan
Alan Wong is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 14 years of experience. He focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, or ADHD. He speaks English and works with adults seeking clearer coping skills and steadier routines.
Alan uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which means sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. He and the client set small, achievable goals and track progress between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented rather than theoretical. People bring many concerns to his work beyond mood and anxiety. He has experience with trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems, low self-esteem, career strain, bipolar challenges, and major life changes.
He also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and first responder strain. Alan adapts the plan to each person’s situation. He listens for what’s getting in the way, then suggests practical tools to try at home.
He emphasizes steady steps that fit real life, like short behavior experiments, new routines, and skill practice. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which many people find helps them fit therapy into busy schedules. He encourages collaboration so people leave sessions with clear next steps and doable practices to try between meetings.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Alan primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical approach that helps people spot patterns of thinking that cause distress and replace them with more helpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, sleep problems, and anger issues.Sessions are collaborative. He will work with each person to choose approaches and techniques that match their goals and daily life. That means trying an idea, seeing how it fits, and adjusting based on what helps. Deciding on techniques is part of the therapy process rather than something fixed from the start.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel schedules and to practice skills in the moments they matter.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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