About Allison
Allison Braswell is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people take the next step toward better days. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what feels hard now. Her approach centers on practical change and emotional healing so clients can move toward their goals with more ease.
Allison focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, depression, life changes, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, communication struggles, and family of origin wounds.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include guilt, shame, impulsivity, loneliness, and finding life purpose. In sessions Allison works collaboratively to identify obstacles and build concrete skills. She helps people process past hurts and the stressors that get in the way of daily functioning.
The work tends to mix talking through problems with specific strategies you can try between meetings. Allison draws on ten years of clinical experience as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker - practicing in Illinois. She affirms and celebrates the LGBTQAI+ community and provides a respectful, nonjudgmental space for clients to speak honestly about their lives.
Her goal is to help clients find clearer direction and more manageable routines. She supports parents navigating parenting strain and young adults sorting out next steps. Sessions aim to leave people feeling heard and with steps they can actually use.
How Allison’s approaches work online
Allison uses evidence-based techniques that blend skill-building with processing life events. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression. This helps people manage daily stress and feel more in control.Another approach emphasizes practical routines and behavioral strategies to improve attention, reduce impulsivity, and support daily functioning for people who are managing ADHD-related challenges. This often includes breaking tasks into smaller steps, setting clearer structures, and practicing new habits over time.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Allison talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together the therapist and client try methods, check what’s working, and adjust plans so the approach fits the person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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