About Alaina
Alaina Bigger is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strains, and parenting challenges. She practices under a California license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and also holds an Ohio LISW credential. Alaina has 14 years of clinical experience working with individuals who face trauma, mood concerns, ADHD, and changes that disrupt daily life.
Alaina uses straightforward, practical conversations to untangle what feels overwhelming.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small steps that can change daily routines and relationships. She pays attention to how family patterns and past experiences show up in current problems and works with clients to build clearer communication and healthier boundaries. Her approach blends ideas from therapies that target thoughts and behaviors, explore relational patterns, and examine family systems.
That mix lets her tailor sessions to a person’s needs, whether the work is skill-focused or reflective. She encourages clients to bring concrete examples from life so therapy stays relevant and usable. People who come to Alaina can expect a collaborative tone and practical tools to try between sessions.
She invites clients to set goals and to check progress regularly. Her aim is to help people feel more capable of handling daily stressors, improve important relationships, and find steadier footing after loss or major change. Alaina practices in California and offers sessions in English.
She draws on experience across many settings to support people navigating parenting, adoption and foster care topics, blended family issues, and multicultural concerns.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Alaina commonly draws on techniques that target thoughts and behaviors and approaches that look at relationship and family patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of behaving; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Psychodynamic ideas help people see how past relationships shape current reactions and patterns, which can be useful for persistent relationship and self-esteem concerns. Systemic or family-informed work examines how interactions with others keep problems going and helps people change those patterns to improve communication and boundaries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will try tools and adjust the focus over time so sessions stay useful and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone needs a quick way to share progress between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English