About
- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting concerns
- Emotion-focused work
About Alli
Alli LaRue is an Ohio LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker with 17 years of professional experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, family concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting, and depression. She also focuses on adoption and foster care, blended family issues, communication problems, and related mood concerns.
Alli treats people as the experts in their own lives. She looks for existing strengths and practical ways to use them. Sessions are direct and conversational. She helps clients name problems and try small changes that fit their daily life.
Her background spans settings where parents and caregivers turn for help. She has worked with issues connected to pregnancy and childbirth, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), panic attacks, and social anxiety. She also has experience with divorce and separation, sexual assault and abuse, women's issues, and challenges faced by young adults.
In session she blends client-centered work with structured techniques. That includes ways to notice thoughts and patterns, practice new responses, and focus on emotions in relationships. She may use mindfulness skills and motivational interviewing to help people move toward clear goals.
Alli practices in Ohio and conducts sessions in English. Her style aims to be practical and steady so people can try changes between sessions. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
She commonly integrates client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client's priorities so sessions feel relevant. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches ways to notice unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.She may also use emotionally-focused therapy to address closeness and communication concerns. That approach helps people name underlying emotions and practice new ways of responding in relationships. These methods can be helpful for parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, and family conflict.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick methods that fit daily life.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking, since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy household because sessions can be scheduled around family routines, require less travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can use the same core tools in virtual sessions as in person, adapting exercises so they work for each person's situation.
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Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
17+ years
Listed in
Ohio
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family or parenting concerns does she address?
She helps people with parenting stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and communication problems within family relationships.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered approach combined with cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused techniques. Sessions aim to be conversational and practical.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 17 years of professional experience working with adults on mood, anxiety, and family-related concerns.
What credential and location should I know about?
She is an LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker practicing in Ohio.
Can she work with people who speak other languages or live outside the US?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are used?
Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the profile.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.