Alison Marrelli
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alison
Alison Marrelli is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical support for people facing big life changes. She works with those dealing with grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, parenting concerns, and other common challenges. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find clearer ways forward rather than using jargon.
Alison believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths to therapy. She helps clients identify those strengths and apply them to everyday problems.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to make small, useful changes that add up over time. With 12 years of experience as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Alison draws on evidence-based techniques to address things like grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and relationship stress. She also supports people navigating career shifts, parenting dilemmas, body image, and chronic health stressors.
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer thinking, and problem solving. Alison helps clients set realistic goals and tries strategies together in session. The emphasis is on usable tools that fit each person’s life.
Alison practices in Utah and conducts sessions in English. She offers multiple online formats to suit different schedules and comfort levels. Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative step toward better day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide practical change. One common approach she relies on teaches concrete coping skills and behavior changes to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This helps people build routines and responses they can use day to day.Another approach focuses on processing grief and major life transitions through paced conversations and practical planning. That method aims to help someone make decisions and find ways to carry on after loss or big changes. Both approaches emphasize clear steps rather than long theory explanations.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alison will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet those goals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels best, while phone sessions can fit into busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions or use shorter, frequent support. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid work, school, and family demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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