Alan Hoffman

Alan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience and practices in Washington. He often draws on the Gottman Method alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address relationship strain and everyday stress.

Sessions include concrete skills practice and short take-home exercises to build new habits between meetings. The focus is on what clients want to change and how to get there in manageable steps.

Alan has a long history of helping people with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and parenting concerns. He also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and family of origin concerns.

Substance use, communication problems, separation and divorce, and feelings of isolation are among other areas he addresses. His approach is goal-oriented and solution-focused.

Each meeting typically ends with practical suggestions - brief readings, short exercises, or videos - so progress continues outside the session. He favors straightforward talk and clear plans over technical jargon.

Outside his work, Alan brings life experience as a spouse, a parent, a U.S. Army veteran, and a recreational sailor.

Those roles help him relate to the real demands people face between sessions and shape how he frames practical next steps.