- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Allison
Allison Peck, LCSW, helps adults facing stress, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She focuses on practical skills, clearer thinking, and building a vision for life during transitions. Her style blends straightforward guidance with compassion to make sessions useful from the first visit.
Allison draws on six years of clinical practice and a long personal mindfulness practice. She mixes techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral work, and attachment-informed approaches.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice, communication strategies, and attention to how relationships shape feelings and choices. Clients benefit from Allison's prior business background and interest in organizational psychology. That perspective helps when work, career decisions, or role strain affect family life and parenting.
She pays attention to how stress, caregiving demands, and blended family dynamics change daily routines and relationships. Her training includes a Master of Arts in General Psychology from The New School and a Master of Social Work from New York University. Allison applies that training to support people with anxiety, mood shifts, adjustment after life changes, and intimacy concerns.
Therapy with Allison is collaborative and education-focused. She offers tools for managing distress and strengthening connections. Many sessions center on small, usable changes that add up over time.
What Allison works with
Everything Allison lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Allison helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Allison lists
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven online care for parents and partners
Allison often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. This approach helps with anxiety, parenting stress, and feeling stuck by focusing on what matters and small, consistent steps.She also draws from Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationship patterns influence reactions and closeness. That work tends to help when communication or intimacy issues repeat across relationships and when parenting or blended-family dynamics feel fraught.
Choosing the right approach happens together. Allison will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. She tailors a blend of methods so sessions feel focused on immediate problems and longer-term change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversations for skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy parenting and work schedules.
Questions people ask about Allison
What issues does Allison help address?
She focuses on stress, anxiety, intimacy-related concerns, parenting, career and coaching needs, as well as related issues like attachment, codependency, and communication problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and collaborative, mixing acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and attachment-informed techniques to teach skills and foster clearer choices.
What is her professional background?
Allison has six years of clinical experience and a long-standing mindfulness practice, plus prior business experience that informs work-life and organizational concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and practices in New York.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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