About Alison
Alison Marrelli is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah who helps people facing grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s daily life. Alison offers steady support while people find their own strengths and next moves.
Alison brings 12 years of professional experience to her work as an LCSW. She aims to create sessions where clients can talk about loss, compassion fatigue, relationship concerns, parenting strain, or career stress without judgment.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like ADHD, body image, eating and sleeping difficulties, and trauma-related worries. Her approach centers on the client’s expertise about their life. She listens for strengths and helps people turn those into workable plans.
That might mean breaking large problems into small steps, practicing new ways of coping, or trying different routines to improve sleep and focus. Alison also works with topics such as adoption and foster care, abandonment wounds, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and aging concerns. She uses a practical style that aims to reduce overwhelm and increase manageable change.
For people who want support but are unsure where to begin, Alison encourages starting with one clear problem to address. Sessions typically set small goals and check progress, so change can feel steady and realistic.
How Alison’s Methods Translate to Online Care
Alison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete change and coping skills. One approach emphasizes breaking problems into small, manageable steps so clients can practice new habits between sessions; this helps with anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. Another approach centers on building awareness of thought and behavior patterns so people can try different responses to stress and relationship issues; this is useful for self-esteem, ADHD challenges, and compassion fatigue.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Alison works together with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Early sessions typically focus on identifying priorities and trying one or two methods to see what fits, then adjusting as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school rhythms and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English