Allison Kent

Allison Kent is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 18 years of experience helping people through relationship and life transitions. She works with individuals and couples on issues like trauma, intimacy concerns, ADHD, and LGBT-related stress. Allison aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly and begin to heal.

Her practice often focuses on communication patterns, rebuilding trust after infidelity, and recovering from sexual assault or domestic violence. She also supports clients through pregnancy and childbirth concerns, fertility challenges, and HIV or AIDS-related issues. Allison commonly addresses mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and the needs of neurodivergent clients including autism and Asperger syndrome.

Allison describes her style as person-centered and trauma-informed. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions while honoring each person's identity and life story. In the room she prioritizes listening closely, asking practical questions, and collaborating on small steps clients can try between sessions.

She also works with people navigating blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care challenges, and alternative relationship structures such as kink or consensual nontraditional arrangements. Communication problems, forgiveness work, and exploring life purpose are regular topics of conversation.

Sessions are offered in English and American Sign Language. Her practice is based in California, and she brings nearly two decades of clinical experience to the clients she supports.

Approaches and how online therapy can help

Allison uses evidence-based techniques within a person-centered, trauma-informed framework. Person-centered work focuses on the client's goals and lived experience, offering steady, respectful listening and helping people make choices that fit their lives. Trauma-informed methods attend to safety and pacing, helping people process difficult memories and reduce the ways past trauma shows up now.

She also integrates practical, skills-based strategies to address relationship patterns, communication problems, and emotional regulation. These approaches teach concrete tools clients can use during stressful moments and in day-to-day interactions, such as communication exercises and steps for managing mood or attention challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Allison will work collaboratively to identify which techniques match a client's needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as therapy progresses.

Confirm the session formats before booking so you know how sessions will be scheduled. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when that helps maintain consistency. Licensed professionals can offer effective support through remote sessions, and Allison aims to help clients integrate therapeutic work into everyday routines.