About Venessa
Venessa Ellington Alston is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with three decades of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with addictions. She also supports those coping with anger, low self-esteem, and motivation struggles.
Venessa focuses on simple, practical conversation. She listens closely and adapts the plan to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings and to restore a sense of control day to day.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to codependency, drug and alcohol addiction, and process addictions such as gambling or compulsive behaviors. She also addresses concerns like postpartum depression, trauma, guilt and shame, and issues many women face in midlife. Clients can expect a respectful and nonjudgmental presence.
Venessa emphasizes sensitivity and compassion while helping people set realistic steps forward. She encourages small changes that add up over time. Venessa has 30 years of professional experience and holds a Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Practical formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Venessa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral steps to reduce anxiety and manage stress; it teaches concrete strategies people can try between sessions. Another approach focuses on working through addictive patterns by identifying triggers and creating alternate routines and supports to reduce harmful behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Venessa collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts tools and pacing so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier when a quick check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between longer sessions. Together these formats help people maintain momentum and fit therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English