About Allison
Allison Gale is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and major life changes. She offers a calm presence and practical tools that parents and individuals can use between sessions. Allison aims to make the first steps feel manageable and respectful of each person’s pace.
She uses art and mindfulness exercises during sessions and gives simple practices to try at home. These activities are offered alongside conversation so clients can notice small changes outside of appointments.
Background and approach
Allison treats complex trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, and substance-related issues with a blend of therapeutic conversation and hands-on exercises. Her work also covers relationship and communication problems, body image, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and immigration-related stress. She helps people untangle family of origin issues, codependency, guilt, and shame.
The focus is on tangible coping skills and clearer next steps rather than jargon-filled explanations. Allison brings six years of counseling experience and holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She practices in Indiana and works in a straightforward, compassionate way.
Sessions are designed to fit real life, with approachable language and actionable guidance. Outside the therapy room she enjoys reading, hiking, and art projects. Allison welcomes questions about how therapy could fit into a busy schedule and supports people as they try new strategies and adjust goals over time.
Approaches that translate to online care
Allison often combines brief mindfulness practices with creative, art-based exercises to help people notice feelings and manage stress. Mindfulness tools are simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help with anxiety and overwhelm. Art-based exercises use drawing or collage to make thoughts and emotions easier to name and shift, which can help with trauma, grief, and body image concerns.She also uses practical skill-building focused on coping strategies and communication. These techniques teach specific steps for handling difficult conversations, setting boundaries, and managing cravings or strong emotions. Allison collaborates with each person to pick approaches that match their needs and goals, adjusting methods as progress is made and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and routines. Video calls work well for longer conversations and exercises that benefit from visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, and practicing skills in between longer appointments. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing parenting, work, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English