Allison Crotwell, LICSW

Allison Crotwell is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 23 years of experience helping people navigate major life shifts. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting concerns, ADHD symptoms, grief, and coping with change. She approaches each person with respect and practical support.

Allison uses a client-centered style that builds on a person’s strengths. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to handle conflict.

Her work often centers on everyday problems people can relate to, like career transitions, intimacy questions, low self-esteem, and feeling isolated. She helps people map small, concrete steps toward the goals they name. Sessions aim to be action-focused and grounded in what matters most to the client.

Allison has substantial experience with attention differences and behaviors tied to obsessive-compulsive patterns, and she weaves that experience into practical plans. She also supports people facing family of origin issues, abandonment wounds, and caregiver stress.

Clients who want to build coping skills, reduce overwhelm, or work through grief and life changes will find a steady, strengths-based approach. Allison encourages realistic goals and clear next steps, and she partners with clients as they try new ways of living that feel more satisfying.

How core approaches guide online work

Allison often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when helping people sort through midlife questions and big transitions. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when uncomfortable thoughts and feelings show up; it can help when life changes make priorities unclear. CBT looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to shift patterns that keep people stuck, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful habits.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Allison works with each person to identify what matters most, then tries methods that match those goals. She checks in about what is working and adjusts plans so the work stays relevant to daily life.

Please confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and remove travel time so people can use appointments during a work break or between errands. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT techniques to work well in remote sessions, focusing on practical exercises, skill practice, and planning small changes that fit into ordinary days.