Alison Mondares
Practical support for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alison
Alison Mondares is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and parenting concerns. She works with common issues like self-esteem, relationship and family problems, sleep struggles, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Alison uses straightforward, practical methods so people can find calmer ways to cope.
She blends several evidence-based approaches to fit each person. Sessions focus on useful skills, clearer communication, and choices that match a client's values.
Background and approach
The aim is to build tools people can use between sessions as well as in therapy. Alison has seven years of experience providing care in Florida as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters most and take small steps toward those values. Her work includes Emotionally-Focused and Client-Centered methods to support emotional connection and to make space for each person’s perspective. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce reactivity and improve focus when helpful.
Alison is comfortable addressing a wide range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, ADHD, caregiving stress, aging and end-of-life issues, cancer-related worries, hoarding, and family transitions like divorce. Sessions are offered in English and include video, phone, live chat, and text-based options. People start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
Costs vary by location and the subscription model can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that fit family and parenting needs
Alison commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. CBT helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing difficult feelings while taking small steps toward what matters most, which can help with parenting stress, life changes, and relationship goals.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy when clients need a space to feel heard and understood. That approach focuses on listening closely and building trust so people can explore feelings and choices at their own pace.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily realities and suggest methods that fit those needs. Clients and therapist adjust the plan as work progresses so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, attend from home, or use shorter check-in formats when needed. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice new communication patterns, and support problem-solving between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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