Allison Crotwell, LICSW

Allison Crotwell is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, practical approach that focuses on a person’s strengths. Allison aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.

She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That background means she has supported people through depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, career shifts, and life changes. She also has extensive experience with attention differences such as ADD and ADHD and with patterns linked to obsessive-compulsive concerns.

Allison’s work is client-centered and strengths-based. She and the person in therapy build plans that aim at clear goals and small, practical steps. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new ways of responding to stressful situations.

She draws on several well-known methods, including cognitive behavioral tools that look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach skills such as mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These tools are used to increase coping and support better daily functioning.

Allison approaches therapy as a partnership. She listens, offers feedback, and helps people develop strategies that fit their lives. If someone is ready to make changes, she can help them take the next steps.

How Allison’s Approaches Work Online and in Practice

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It is useful for persistent worry, life transitions, and making choices that align with personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage intense emotions and improve relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Allison treats therapy as a collaboration and will help identify which methods fit someone’s goals and daily life. Together they choose practical strategies and adjust them over time based on what is helpful.

The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can help fit sessions around busy schedules, reduce commuting, and make shorter check-ins easier to arrange during the day. It also lets people practice skills in the contexts where they need them most, then bring feedback back to sessions to refine plans.