Allison Van Da Griff
Compassionate counselor focused on practical change
LPC Missouri
- Experience
- 7 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Intimacy-related issues
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Allison
Allison Van Da Griff is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Allison approaches the work with respect for each person's story and strengths. Taking that first step toward change is acknowledged as a brave choice she supports.
Allison uses practical strategies to address relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She helps people improve communication and work through guilt, shame, and isolation.
For those coping with grief, trauma, or compassion fatigue, she offers steady, attentive support. She blends several therapeutic approaches to meet individual needs.
Client-Centered Therapy informs a warm, accepting stance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
The Gottman Method is used to guide conversations about connection and interaction patterns. Sessions may also draw on solution-focused and trauma-focused work when the situation calls for short-term goal setting or targeted processing.
Allison pays attention to body image, eating concerns, pregnancy and childbirth transitions, and women’s issues as they arise in sessions. She helps people who identify as LGBT navigate identity and relationship questions.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She aims to build skills people can use outside sessions.
People leave with clearer steps, new ways to communicate, and tools to handle everyday stressors.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Allison draws on a few practical therapies to help people in online sessions. The Gottman Method is used to map interaction patterns and improve communication and connection; it can be helpful when couples or partners want clearer ways to talk and rebuild trust. Client-Centered Therapy provides a respectful, nonjudgmental base where the person’s own goals guide the work and the therapist follows the client’s pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Allison works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in session. That collaborative decision helps shape a short-term plan and the skills practiced between meetings. Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations without travel. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins or ongoing support into a busy week. These options allow for flexibility while still focusing on clear goals and skill building.Frequently asked questions
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Experience
7+ years
Licensed in
Missouri
Languages
English