About Alison
Alison Mondares is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build clearer ways to cope with life changes and parenting challenges.
Alison keeps sessions straightforward and person-focused. She listens first, then helps identify small changes that make daily life easier. Conversations cover sleep, intimacy, self-esteem, and challenges tied to trauma or bipolar mood swings.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing caregiving demands, cancer-related stress, and end-of-life concerns. Her work draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered methods. These tools are used to clarify values, shift unhelpful thinking, and strengthen emotional awareness through practical exercises and mindfulness.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Alison brings seven years of clinical experience in Florida to her practice. She holds the credential LCSW, which indicates a licensed clinical social worker.
Her experience includes addressing complex situations such as co-morbidity, codependency, hoarding, and disruptive mood challenges. People who choose to work with her can expect focus on communication skills, problem-solving, and steady coping plans. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She helps people develop tools to face stressors with more confidence and calm.
How Alison’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take committed steps toward those values. It’s useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions by teaching simple exercises to notice thoughts and move toward chosen goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments. It can help with worry, sleep trouble, and mood shifts by giving practical tools to change daily habits and reactions.
Client-Centered Therapy creates a supportive space where the person’s own goals guide the work. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions for relationship and self-esteem issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises, phone can work well when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Alison commonly address?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
What is her professional background?
What credentials and where is she licensed?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled for sessions?
What are the steps to begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English