About Alona
Alona Perlin is a New York-based therapist who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship problems. She offers a calm, down-to-earth presence and aims to make sessions feel safe and straightforward. People meet her when they need someone who listens and gives practical support.
She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with 15 years of experience. Alona tailors each session to the person in front of her instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Conversations combine listening, gentle feedback, and hands-on tools clients can use between sessions. Alona works with a wide range of concerns including stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, addictions, and caregiving strain. She also focuses on attachment issues, body image, blended family dynamics, and challenges linked to adoption and foster care.
Her approach is adaptable to different personal histories and needs. Sessions are offered in English and Russian, and she provides therapy for clients located in New York. She uses a mix of talk-based and skills-focused methods drawn from several therapeutic approaches to help people manage emotions and make changes that feel right to them.
Starting therapy with Alona begins with a conversation about what brought someone in. She’ll ask about background, current struggles, and practical goals. From there she works collaboratively to set small, realistic steps toward feeling more grounded and capable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating to others. It can be helpful for relationship wounds and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Alona will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean combining skills training with deeper attachment work, or keeping sessions focused on immediate coping strategies when that feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when that helps progress. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging suits shorter check-ins and continued support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional relief.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Russian