About Alan
Alan Warner helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, grief, and major life changes. He is comfortable supporting LGBT clients and people facing mood disorders, bipolar challenges, or issues with self-esteem and anger.
Alan holds a Master of Social Work and practices as a Licensed Independent Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Pennsylvania. He uses straightforward, practical work in sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on the problems the person brings and steps they can take between meetings. Alan draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and on solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals. He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values despite difficult feelings.
With 30 years of experience, he blends substance use perspective with mental health care. He pays attention to family of origin patterns, codependency, and control issues that often show up in adult life. He also addresses grief, abandonment, guilt, and shame in frank, respectful terms.
Sessions aim to build practical skills, clearer choices, and renewed motivation. Alan emphasizes collaboration - clients set priorities and decide the pace. He also uses motivational interviewing when people want to change habits but feel stuck.
Work covers broader life concerns such as career direction, life purpose, aging and geriatric questions, HIV/AIDS related matters, and coping with divorce or separation. His background in chemical dependency informs approaches to impulsivity and addiction recovery.
How specific approaches guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pulled off course, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It often helps with mood issues, anxiety, and problems with impulse control. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change and can support work around addiction and habit change.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they will adapt techniques so the plan fits the client’s life and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, such as video calls for deeper conversations, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text messaging for brief updates or reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and let people try different formats to see what helps them engage most effectively.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland
- Languages
- English