Alison Smith, LPC

Alison Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Georgia with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and a wide range of life stressors including grief, addictions, and blended family issues. Alison also addresses concerns around self-esteem, intimacy, ADHD, and caregiver stress.

She served in the Air Force and later worked for the Department of Defense for ten years. Alison holds a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University. Personal experience caring for a child with congenital heart disease informs her understanding of long-term stress and sudden life changes.

Her clinical approach draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, Jungian perspectives, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques. She often uses creative exercises such as writing, poetry, music, or art to help people find new ways to talk about difficult topics.

In sessions she focuses on helping people notice unhelpful patterns, build practical skills, and make clearer decisions. She aims to work collaboratively so goals and strategies reflect what the person wants to change. Practical tools, short-term goals, and problem-focused conversations are common parts of her work.

Many people seek Alison for help with communication problems, co-parenting stress, commitment and control issues, and challenges that arise when blended households are forming. She also supports those managing chronic illness, caregiver burden, or complex grief.