About Alison
Alison Mace is a Licensed Master Social Worker who works with adults around stress, anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. She aims to make first conversations simple and direct so people can describe what feels hard. Her tone is warm and down-to-earth, and she focuses on helping clients feel heard and understood.
Alison treats practical problems by connecting thoughts, feelings, and behavior. She partners with clients to set small, clear goals and to take steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and often include straightforward tools people can use between meetings. With five years of clinical experience, Alison draws from several approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
She also brings dialectical behavior ideas for managing strong emotions and improving coping skills. Alison blends other methods too, such as existential and psychodynamic perspectives, to help people reflect on meaning, patterns, and past influences. Motivational interviewing is part of her style when someone wants support making a change.
She practices from Michigan and conducts sessions in English. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including relationship stress, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, obsessional or compulsive worries, panic, and self-esteem struggles. The approach is collaborative, practical, and paced to each person’s readiness.
How Alison's Approaches Work Online
Alison uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT often includes simple exercises and step-by-step plans that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety and phobic avoidance.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. DBT-style skills are useful when emotions feel intense or when someone wants clearer tools for coping in the moment.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Alison discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts techniques over time. She tailors her mix of strategies so they match what someone wants to change and how quickly they want to move.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer sessions and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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