About Allyson
Allyson Klein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her aim is to build a relationship where clients feel heard and able to try new ways of coping.
Allyson uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods. She works from client-centered principles and draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior ideas and mindfulness practices to help with emotion regulation and staying present. Her background includes work across many care settings with people from diverse cultural and sexual orientation backgrounds. This has given her a wide view of how life stress, trauma, grief, and relationship problems show up.
Allyson often helps people who struggle with eating concerns, addictions, sleep problems, and work-related stress. Sessions focus on setting clear goals, learning skills, and building routines that support daily life. She breaks larger problems into small, doable steps so progress is visible.
The work is collaborative - clients help guide what to address first. Allyson offers multiple online formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She practices in Oregon and conducts sessions in English.
How Allyson’s Approaches Work Online
Allyson blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change patterns that cause distress. Client-centered work means she listens closely and follows what matters most to each person, helping them set goals and make choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage mood.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy, especially skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These DBT-based skills can be useful for coping with anger, relationship strain, or periods of high stress. Together these approaches give both understanding and practical tools to try between sessions. Allyson approaches choice of method as a joint process; she will work with each client to find what fits their goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing a single plan.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for longer sessions, while phone calls can be better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, reinforcing skills, or when shorter, more frequent touchpoints help keep momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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