About Alison
Alison Solomon is a licensed clinical social worker with 29 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those coping with addiction, parenting strain, eating or sleeping struggles, and self-esteem or identity questions.
Alison practices in Delaware and speaks English and Hebrew. People describe her approach as direct and caring. She aims to walk alongside clients as they work through hard moments and learn more about themselves.
Background and approach
In sessions she focuses on what matters most to each person. She listens without judgment and helps people name patterns that cause pain. Conversations often include practical steps to manage emotions, improve communication, or cope with life changes.
Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's goals. She also uses emotion-focused ideas to address attachment and closeness, and DBT skills for managing intense feelings and stress. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas can appear when exploring long-standing habits or motivation.
Alison has experience supporting people across many backgrounds, including those who feel different because of sexuality, ability, or ethnicity. She has also worked with families of Holocaust survivors and with people facing caregiver stress, blended family issues, and fertility or loss concerns. Her goal is to help people feel more grounded and able to move forward.
How Alison's approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals at the center. In practice this means sessions focus on what the client wants to change and the therapist follows their lead to build solutions that fit. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people shift how they connect and respond to one another, which can relieve repeated conflicts and loneliness.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, stress, and impulsive behaviors. Online sessions can include teaching and practicing these skills, with short exercises and coaching between meetings when useful. Alison will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches to try and adjust as needs and goals evolve - finding the right mix is part of the work together.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and flexible communication between scheduled meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try different ways of working until a good fit is found.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Delaware
- Languages
- English, Hebrew