Allison Bratton
Trusted help for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Allison
Allison Bratton is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing family and parenting challenges, addiction, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and works to make each visit feel straightforward and useful. Her style aims to reduce overwhelm so parents and caregivers can take practical next steps at home.
Allison uses several evidence-informed methods to address anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, sleep disruption, and anger. Sessions often focus on skills for coping with stress, improving communication, and setting manageable goals.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar disorder, substance concerns, and career stress as listed in her specialties. She combines acceptance-based work with therapies that strengthen attachment and emotional understanding. That means helping people notice what matters to them, name hard feelings, and try new ways of relating.
Allison also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Allison holds an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - and has practiced for 12 years in Oregon. She offers sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions are provided in English and follow the subscription model described on the site. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules a session based on therapist availability. Costs vary with location and therapist availability and the subscription may be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Allison commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then take actions that match their values. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior and supports building safer connections within families.She blends these approaches with client-centered conversation and cognitive behavioral techniques as needed. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to follow through between appointments, practice new skills, and keep therapy consistent when life is busy. The format can be changed as needed so people can find the rhythm that supports steady progress.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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