About Allison
Allison Palazzo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of experience helping people move past problems that keep them stuck. She offers straightforward, solution-focused care in a calm and nonjudgmental way. Parents and individuals often come to her feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or worn down by life changes.
She helps people sort priorities and find clear next steps. Allison has worked in New York across a range of settings over nearly two decades.
Background and approach
Her experience includes supporting people through stress and anxiety, substance use concerns, grief, and major life transitions. She also helps clients address relationship and intimacy-related issues, career stress, and self-esteem struggles. Her practice pays attention to how family dynamics, blended households, and communication patterns affect daily life.
She also works with people facing abandonment wounds, codependency, infidelity, and jealousy. Eating issues, body image, and forgiveness are additional areas she addresses. Allison brings practical tools for coping and managing attention differences like ADHD, as well as strategies for compassion fatigue and burnout.
Sessions focus on problem solving, skill building, and realistic plans people can use between appointments. She aims to make therapy useful and doable. People who prefer clear guidance and a steady, encouraging presence tend to find her approach helpful.
Her work centers on collaboration, helping each client set aims and try concrete steps toward them.
Approaches that guide online work
Allison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear strategies and real-life changes. One common approach she uses centers on practical problem solving - identifying specific obstacles, breaking them into manageable steps, and practicing concrete skills to change daily routines. This method helps with stress, anxiety, and coping with life transitions.She also incorporates behavioral strategies aimed at changing patterns that maintain difficulties. These techniques involve small, measurable actions to address habits connected to mood, intimacy, or addictive behaviors. They are useful for people working on recovery, relationship patterns, or improving self-care.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Allison works with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. Over the first few sessions she and the client review what helps, adjust methods, and set achievable targets together.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when interaction and tone matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, ongoing coaching, or times when writing is easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and changing schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English