Chris Allen
Calm guidance for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Chris
Chris Allen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with nearly three decades of clinical practice. He focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. He aims for straightforward help rather than labels, meeting each person where they are and respecting their story.
His style is warm and interactive. Sessions are conversational and practical. He listens first, then works with clients to set small, manageable goals for change.
Background and approach
Chris draws from several approaches to shape therapy to fit a person's needs. He uses client-centered methods to keep the work focused on the person's experience. He brings in solution-focused steps to identify clear, doable changes between sessions.
Mindfulness techniques are used to build attention and calm, especially when stress or anxiety feels overwhelming. He also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time and affect current relationships. Over his 29 years in practice, Chris has helped people facing depression, anxiety, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting struggles, self-esteem and many related concerns.
He works with issues such as adoption and foster care, attachment, blended family challenges, body image, communication problems, and fatherhood issues. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. He aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through hard things and build practical next steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy keeps the focus on the person's experience and priorities. Online sessions follow the same idea: the therapist listens and adapts the session to what matters most right now, making space for personal goals and concerns.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase calm. These techniques can be guided during video calls or reinforced through short exercises shared over messaging between sessions.
Solution-focused therapy looks for immediate, practical steps that lead to small wins. In online work this often means setting clear actions to try between meetings and then reviewing what helped or didn't help in the next session.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust based on what works best. Clients have a voice in shaping the plan and pacing.
Online therapy offers flexibility through multiple formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to use different formats for different needs, whether real-time conversation or brief check-ins between appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt these options to help people keep progress moving forward.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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