As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Allyson has had the opportunity to work with many different people, treatment settings and reasons for treatment. She has been post masters for 15+ years and has practiced in a wide array of treatment settings. Experienced working with children and adolescents in sub-acute residential settings, therapeutic foster care and juvenile detention. She has worked with adults, families and youth in both rural and urban community mental health outpatient clinics and is trained in EMDR. Allyson has practiced primarily in a private psychotherapy practice where most of her work was with individuals in late adolescence through adulthood addressing varying mood disorders, adjustment disorders, and substance abuse issues that affect interpersonal relationships, work or employment, and goal setting.

Having been trained in Psychodynamic Treatment, Allyson’s treatment style over the years has become more eclectic. “I start where my client is and mold my style to what the specific needs are. I especially enjoy working with people who are motivated for change. Helping is my passion, and I am committed to my work.”

As a trained and registered Prana Yoga Instructor and Certified LifeForce Yoga Practitioner (yoga to manage your mood), Allyson utilizes yogic principles and teachings both on and off the mat to aid in mental health treatment and management of anxiety, depression and PTSD.