- Stress management
- Parenting support
- Attachment focus
About Allison
Allison Braswell is an IL LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of practice. She works with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, depression, ADHD, and people coping with life changes. She also addresses issues such as adoption and foster care, attachment, communication struggles, control issues, family of origin concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and isolation.
Allison uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people untangle what feels overwhelming. Sessions focus on identifying current barriers and processing past experiences that keep patterns in place. She talks through stressors and coping strategies in straightforward language so clients can try things between sessions.
She pays attention to relationships and history when helping people understand where guilt or shame come from. That might include looking at early attachments, adoption or foster care experiences, or family messages about responsibility and blame. The goal is to find more helpful ways of responding rather than assigning blame.
When parenting is a concern, Allison works with individual parents on communication, setting limits, and managing anxiety around caregiving. For young adults and women dealing with life transitions, she helps sort priorities and identify small, doable steps forward.
Allison affirms LGBTQAI+ people and brings that stance into her work. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from her Illinois practice. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How Allison applies evidence-based techniques online
Allison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in simple, practical ways. Cognitive approaches help people notice unhelpful thoughts that fuel guilt or shame and practice testing different thoughts. Behavioral strategies focus on small, doable actions to reduce avoidance and rebuild a sense of control, which can ease anxiety and isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and day-to-day reality, adjusting techniques as progress is made or new needs appear. The client and therapist decide together which tools to try and how to use them between sessions.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around busy days, shorten check-ins when time is tight, and avoid travel so attention stays on the topic at hand. Licensed professionals can also use remote sessions to maintain continuity during life changes and to reach people across different parts of Illinois.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, parenting, depression, ADHD, and coping with life changes, plus related issues such as guilt and shame, attachment, and adoption or foster care concerns.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people name where guilt or shame come from and to practice different ways of responding to those feelings.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with adults on anxiety, parenting, and life transitions.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an IL LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Illinois.
Which language are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
What are the session formats?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.