About Alanna
Alanna Kardon-Alkalay is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience in New York. She has worked in agencies, schools, and independent practice supporting adults with concerns like depression, anxiety, ADHD, and eating difficulties. Her work often focuses on everyday struggles that affect mood, relationships, and parenting.
Alanna trained at Fordham University in Tarrytown, New York, earning a Master’s degree where she learned individual counseling and family systems work.
Background and approach
She draws on many approaches to match what each person needs, and she commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns. Her style is practical and collaborative. She builds a clear plan with each person and adjusts it as life and goals change.
Sessions can include mindfulness exercises, talking through personal stories, or focusing on concrete behavior changes. Alanna has experience with trauma, grief, addictions, intimacy and parenting concerns. She also helps people facing career stress, caregiver strain, codependency, and problems that stem from family of origin.
She emphasizes a strengths-based approach that looks at what already works for someone. Trust and professional ethics guide her work. She listens for what a person values and helps them shape goals that feel meaningful.
Parents worried about focus, behavior, or family stress will find straightforward, compassionate support here.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and respecting each person's perspective. In practice this means sessions that follow a person's priorities, build trust, and shape goals from what matters most to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and patterns that affect daily functioning, often including concrete exercises between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and interactive exercises. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat or messaging can fit into busy schedules and allow brief, focused support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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