About Chris
Chris Allen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with nearly three decades of clinical experience. He helps people who are overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, addiction, or questions about identity and intimacy. Chris writes plainly and listens first to understand what matters to each person.
His sessions are warm and interactive. He tries to make conversation clear and direct so people can talk about what is hard without extra jargon.
Background and approach
Chris avoids labels that shame and focuses on practical next steps that fit a client's life. Chris draws on client-centered work, psychodynamic ideas, narrative approaches, mindfulness, and solution-focused methods. He shapes each session around a person's goals and pace rather than following a fixed script.
That means some sessions focus on immediate coping skills while others look at deeper patterns over time. Parents and adults who want help with communication, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, or fatherhood topics will find a practical orientation in his work. He also supports people dealing with ADHD, body image, eating concerns, and codependency by identifying clear, usable strategies.
People describe his style as respectful and compassionate, with steady guidance toward changes they can manage. Chris encourages small, realistic steps and checks progress as therapy moves forward.
How Chris Uses Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so clients can set the pace and goals for their work; it helps with anxiety, relationship issues, and parenting concerns by prioritizing what feels most important to the person. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and help people manage strong emotions in the moment. Narrative Therapy invites people to tell their story and to notice the patterns and meanings that shape their choices, which can be useful for identity concerns, trauma, and relationship patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process, and the therapist works collaboratively to figure out what fits best. Sessions begin with a conversation about goals and preferences, and the plan evolves based on progress and feedback from the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins during a busy day, and text messaging supports short updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules while keeping the focus on practical coping skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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