About Alison
Alison Proft is a New York psychoanalyst who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship worries, career questions, and life changes. She also supports people exploring LGBT concerns and those coping with issues like body image, caregiving strain, chronic illness, or family-of-origin pain. Her approach centers on the therapeutic relationship.
She listens without judgment and meets people where they are. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current fears and patterns, and she works with clients to retell their stories in more helpful ways.
Background and approach
Alison uses attachment-based ideas alongside client-centered and psychodynamic perspectives. In practice this means she attends to emotional bonds, follows each person’s priorities, and looks for deeper themes that repeat across relationships. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.
She has practiced for 10 years and holds the credential NY Psychoanalyst 001104, which indicates her psychoanalytic background in New York. Her work is described as interactive and nonjudgmental, with a focus on helping people build on their existing strengths. Alison prefers video sessions and keeps typical office hours Monday through Wednesday from about 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
She aims to create an inclusive setting that is welcoming to LGBTQIA people and to people from the global majority. Her style is practical and relational, focused on making everyday life feel more manageable.
How Alison’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Alison draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to guide online sessions. Attachment-based work focuses on emotional bonds and how early relationships shape current reactions; it can help when fears, abandonment worries, or repeating relationship patterns cause distress. Client-centered work centers the person’s own goals and experiences, with the therapist reflecting and following what matters most in the moment.The therapist views choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try ways of working that fit those needs. If something doesn’t feel helpful, she adjusts the method and pace together with the client.
Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and hold longer, in-depth conversations. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when life gets complicated.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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