About Alyson
Alyson Johnson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of professional experience based in Illinois. She combines a background in recreation with clinical social work to help clients move toward greater well-being, drawing on practical strengths and everyday routines to make progress meaningful and sustainable.
Background and approach
Alyson emphasizes that people are worthy of love and belonging and partners with clients to identify goals and the small steps that lead there. Her approach is collaborative and strengths-focused, honoring clients' self-knowledge while offering guidance and evidence-informed strategies.
Alyson works with concerns that include addictions, depression, anxiety, grief, stress, anger, bipolar disorder, and issues around self-esteem and life purpose. Additional focuses include divorce and separation, drug and alcohol addiction, workplace issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, and coaching for career or life transitions.
She offers a warm, encouraging style intended to help clients tap into their existing resources while learning new skills for coping and change. Alyson aims to help people create more fulfilling days by addressing barriers one piece at a time and building toward lasting improvements in mood, relationships, and daily functioning.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on meeting clients where they are, listening carefully, and helping people identify their own goals and values to guide change. This approach supports issues like low self-esteem, life purpose questions, and general coping by building on strengths and personal insight.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills, which can be helpful for intense emotions, anger, and relationship-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist will collaborate with each client to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative assessment helps shape a plan that combines supportive listening with evidence-informed techniques.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which increase flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to attend sessions from varied locations. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent care using approaches like CBT and DBT while adapting session style to what works best for each client.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Utah
- Languages
- English