Amie Allanson-Dundon
Practical, experienced counseling for life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amie
Amie Allanson-Dundon is a licensed professional counselor with nearly three decades of clinical practice. She holds licensure in Pennsylvania and brings 27 years of experience to her work. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find practical ways forward.
Amie starts by meeting people where they are and building a plan from that point. She uses person-centered approaches and draws on cognitive behavioral and emotion-focused ideas when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and real skills that can be used between meetings. Her background includes long experience addressing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and depression. Amie also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, sleep and eating problems, and work-related strain.
She has additional focus on blended family issues, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, fatherhood issues, fertility concerns, and first responder or veteran-related challenges. In the therapy room she blends different methods - for example talk-based work, practical coping strategies, and techniques to manage emotions and habits. The plan is tailored to each person and shaped by what they want to achieve.
Amie values collaboration and keeps the work focused and down-to-earth. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online in Pennsylvania. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
Therapeutic approaches and what online therapy offers
Client-Centered Therapy is built around listening and responding to each person as an individual. It focuses on empathy, respect, and following the client's pace so they feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches clear, practical techniques to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and relationship skills, which can be useful for intense emotions and impulsive reactions.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, then recommend a mix of methods that match those priorities. That choice is revisited over time so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or caregiving. Sessions can occur by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins are possible through live chat or text messaging. This range of formats makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain progress between full sessions.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Amie
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